Before you take issue with the president’s tears, remember that Obama’s empathy is always what made him seem most presidential.
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Rice Takes Herself Out
Mark Landler, we have a bridge to sell you.
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Drinking the Deficit-Reduction Kool-Aid
Obama was re-elected on a platform of creating jobs. Why is this not the focus of the fiscal-cliff talks?
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The Courts: How Obama Dropped the Ball
The president’s slow pace and anemic support for judicial appointments has kept the courts in conservative hands.Â
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Why Does Obama Want to Spend $8 Trillion on Defense?
Washington is in a fiscal panic, yet surprisingly few people are asking an obvious question: Why in the world is the Obama administration proposing to spend $8 trillion on security over the next decade? Included in that giant sum is not just Pentagon spending, but also outlays for intelligence, homeland security, foreign aid, and diplomacy […]
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Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Understand What the Debt Ceiling Is
Or is it that he knows perfectly well, but wants to mislead the public and the press?
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Not Another Wall Street Puppet
The president should appoint a Treasury secretary who will go to bat for the middle class.
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The Obama Administration Plays Hardball On Medicaid
Let’s hope their calculation is right, and all the states eventually accept Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.
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What Raising the Medicare Eligibility Age Means
It means taking seniors off the least expensive, most efficient insurance program to toss them into the individual market.
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: SCOTUS Takes on Same-Sex Marriage
With the broad questions being placed before it, the Court has the opportunity to do significant damage.
