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Valentine's Dinner Odds in Blizzard Season
Scott Brown and the Palin Path: Will He Choose Brassy or Boring?
Democrats Leave Health Care Behind for Jobs, Toyota, Gays in Military
Murtha Turned Against War, but Not Grab-While-You-Can Politics
Rep. John Murtha, Advocate for Pa. District, Pentagon, Dies at 77
Liz Christman, Enemy of the Passive Voice, Who Rocked Some Jaunty Hats
Is Obama's Search for 'Common Ground' Real?- Tim Tebow's Brilliant Fake Leads to Pro-Life Score
'Snowmageddon' in D.C. -- The Politics, Talk Shows and Snowball Fights Go On
Sarah Palin Serves Tea Party Delegates Red Meat and Certainty
My Left Breast Put Fancy TSA Scanner to the Test
From a Grass Roots Tea Party, a PAC Blooms
Is Dennis Kucinich Joining the Tea Party Movement?
By Donna Trussell
My time-space continuum warped when I heard that Dennis Kucinich had talked to tea partiers and found common ground. After the Democratic defeat in Massachusetts last month, Kucinich said, "There's nothing liberal about the bailouts. There's nothing liberal about standing by and watching banks use public money to get their executive bonuses. There's nothing liberal about giving insurance companies carte blanche to charge anything they want for health care...Since when did that become liberal?" A lot of citizens who once stumped for Obama – for change and hope, they thought – feel ...
Valentine's Dinner Odds in Blizzard Season
By Annie Groer
Pioneering organic restaurateur Nora Pouillon is skiing in Austria. But she keeps calling her business partner in Washington to talk about municipal infrastructure, which means, she says, "If the Metro will be working, if the buses are running, if the streets are plowed," after a second storm drops another foot of snow here by late Wednesday. Coming on the heels of last weekend's crippling blizzard, Pouillon fears from afar that Restaurant Nora could face its own St. Valentine's Day Massacre should patrons cancel reservations for that annual exercise in comestible romance. Like New Year's Eve ...
GOP Filibuster Stops Obama Nominee, With Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln's Help
By Patricia MurphyCraig Becker, President Obama's nominee to the National Labor Relations Board, was stopped by a Republican filibuster Tuesday more than 10 months after Obama chose him for the post. The Senate voted 52 to 33 to move Becker's nomination forward, but that fell well short of the 60 votes required to overcome a GOP filibuster. Fifteen senators did not vote because of snow storms wreaking havoc on Washington's airports. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's choice to take a vote on Becker's nomination Tuesday, knowing it would fail, raised speculation that President Obama will use a recess ...
Robert Gibbs Gets Hands-On About Mocking Sarah Palin
By Christopher WeberDuring a briefing in the White House press room Tuesday, administration spokesman Robert Gibbs held up his hand and revealed a shopping list scribbled onto his palm -- "eggs, milk and bread" -- along with a few other notes. "I wrote down hope and change just in case I forgot that," Gibbs told groaning reporters. It was a not-so-subtle jab at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was caught consulting notes on her palm during a question-and-answer session at the National Tea Party Convention Saturday night. Photos showed Palin had scrawled "energy," "tax cuts" and "lift American spirits" on ...
Transcript of News Conference by President Obama
By Bruce DrakeNEWS CONFERENCEBY THE PRESIDENTJames S. Brady Press Briefing RoomFebruary 9, 2010; 1:38 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. I am glad to see that all of you braved the weather to be here. A little while ago I had a meeting with the Democratic and Republican congressional leaders, and it went very well. In fact, I understand that McConnell and Reid are out doing snow angels on the South Lawn together. (Laughter.) Can you picture that, Chuck? Not really? The meeting did go well, and I appreciate them making the trek. We had a good and frank conversation and it's one that I hope we can ...
Former Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder Calls for White House Staff Shake-Up
By Christopher WeberFormer Democratic Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder says if Barack Obama is to fulfill his promise of positive change in America, the president must "make some hard changes of his own" by replacing inexperienced members of his team with "others more capable of helping him govern." In an editorial for Politico Tuesday, Wilder writes Obama's White House staff is made up of too many people left over from the campaign or from his time in Chicago. "Getting elected and getting things done for the people are two different jobs," Wilder writes, suggesting the president and his people haven't fully made the ...
Americans Say There's Enough Blame to Go Around for Partisanship
By Bruce DrakeFifty-eight percent of Americans say the Republicans are not doing enough to comprise with President Obama on important issues and 44 percent put the burden on Obama for not finding ways to work with the GOP, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted Feb. 4-8.But more Americans say Obama has got it right compared to the Republicans, with 45 percent rating Obama's efforts at compromise "about right" while only 30 percent say that about the Republicans.Some of the findings are similar to a Fox News poll conducted Feb. 2-3 which said 44 percent believed Obama was trying to reach out ...
States in Budget Trouble Turn to the Bottle
By Christopher Weber
Several financially strapped states with with strict alcohol controls are considering saving money by privatizing the regulation and sales of booze, beer and wine. The states say they could raise revenue by selling distribution centers and auctioning liquor licenses to private companies, The Wall Street Journal reported. Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, Vermont and Mississippi are all looking at proposals that would loosen control of distributorships or retail stores. As ways to boost revenue, Colorado now allows spirits to be sold seven days a week instead of six, and Pennsylvania ...
Gender-Neutral Housing Debate: Not on My Campus
By Aaron Steiner
Recently, my colleague and fellow Crammer Willy Hameline raised a few interesting points about the interesting trend on campuses around the country to adopt gender-neutral housing, allowing members of opposite genders to room together. Willy wrote that some 30 colleges across the country offer gender-neutral housing, and concluded that there's continued progress in the evolution of dormitory life, leading him to state that "there was a day when it was unthinkable to have mixed dorms." I'm here to report that such a day has not yet passed for many schools, including my own. The University of ...
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