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Cao Goes Rogue on Health Care! Will Conservatives Make Him Pay?- Woman UP Video: Surprise, Barack Obama is a Liberal!
Obama and the Media: Is the Critic-in-Chief Too Thin-Skinned?
Zoning the Flock: Are Megachurches the New Walmart? 
House Narrowly Passes Historic Health Care Bill
Obama Mourns Fort Hood Soldiers, Plans Tuesday Trip There For Memorial Service
It's Crunch Time on Jobs, and Time for Obama to Make His Move
Rick Scott: Unsung Conservative Hero of the Health Care Debate
Obama Hails AARP, AMA Support for House Health Bill 2 Days Before Vote
Michele Bachmann's Capitol House Call: 'Get Your Hands Off My Health Care!'
Gay Marriage Split: Why Maine Is Mainstream
Woman UP Video: Surprise, Barack Obama is a Liberal!
By Melinda HennebergerThis is our first-ever weekly video show featuring writers from Politics Daily's Woman UP blog. Today, Patricia Murphy, Ria Misra, Emily Miller, Bonnie Erbe and I discuss a recent Gallup Poll that suggests many Americans have been unhappily surprised to glean that Barack Obama is a... liberal. (Did they sleep through last year's election?) ...
The Ten Top (or Bottom) Moments of the Health Care Debate
By Melinda Henneberger
I didn't really set out to watch the whole darn "debate" preceding yesterday's health care vote in the House, on one of the most beautiful days of the fall. But somehow, folding laundry with one eye on C-SPAN turned into a marathon of Notre Dame-Navy game-avoiding and "OMG, I thought he was dead"-muttering as some of the more senior (and rarely seen) members of Congress stepped to the mic. As a result, I can now state with authority that a shocking number of our elected representatives do not have anyone who is giving it to them straight – at least insofar as their toupees are ...
Be Afraid: New Head of the PDPD Is From a State With Open Carry
By Melinda Henneberger
From the beginning – that is, six months ago last week – we've said that Politics Daily was going to be a place for civil discourse on civic life. We've done our part, not-always gentle reader, and now we are lookin' at you. Bonnie Goldstein, who along with Mary Winter edits and assigns stories for our Woman UP women's blog, has written several times about how hurtful it can be to read trash talk in the comments. Sample comment in response: "Hahaha, now the lesbians are cryin'!" (Sir, does your mommy know you are on the Internets?) Recently, Bonnie wrote that a new sheriff was ...
'If a Man Wants to Leave His Toothbrush at My House, He Bloody Well Better Marry Me'
By Melinda HennebergerGood day, Woman UP'pers. On this All Saints Day, I'm wondering what the rest of you in the coven think about a couple of different pieces in the Washington Post. First, what a great obit of Michelle Marvin, who popularized palimony but never collected a dime of the $104,000 she was awarded for what a judge called "rehabilitative purposes'' after her companion (but not husband) Lee Marvin dumped her and she sued him for a share of the millions he'd made while they were together. (She did award herself his last name, which must have been more self-flagellating than self-aggrandizing after he ...
Four Democrats Walk into a Bar . .
By Melinda Henneberger
And even though one of them is not a very good Democrat, she is the only one who does not view Team Obama's recent Fox News-bashing as mystifying, ill-considered -- and strategically speaking, very bad indeed. The consensus among my companions, as on all the Sunday talk shows and in Washington as a whole, is that sending advisers out to challenge whether Fox is a "real,'' legit news operation has made the president look churlish, weak and distracted from Afghanistan and the caca economy. Doesn't he know that he's only elevating Fox at his own expense? (At this point, I'm guessing he's ...
Karaoke in the Capital
By Melinda Henneberger
Oh dear W'Uppers, I could use some advice prontissimo – because I've agreed to embarrass myself for a good cause at tomorrow night's Karaoke in the Capital, which Politics Daily is co-sponsoring, and I still haven't decided what to sing. I especially need an assist because: The last time I sang in public I was 17 years old. I have never set foot in a karaoke bar. And though I love to belt out show tunes in the privacy of my car, my kids respond roughly 100 percent of the time by turning on the radio, so I'm thinking that means ixnay on this or this or even this. My 13-year-old daughter ...
What's the Proper Punishment for the Parents of 'Balloon Boy'?
By Melinda Henneberger
You know the sick, panicked fear that your child may be in danger? I'm not sure the parents of "balloon boy'' do.They claimed their 6-year-old was stuck on a hot-air balloon floating across Colorado last week. But the only physical danger he was ever in? The risk of being stampeded by cameramen waved in by his shameless father -- a storm-chaser so high on the crack of national attention that after his 15 minutes on the show "Wife Swap" elapsed, he pretended his son had been carried away like the Wizard of Oz. (Apparently, the stunt was intended to help the dad close the deal on a reality show ...
Transcript of Obama's Remarks on Nobel Peace Prize
By Melinda HennebergerTHE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release October 9, 2009 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON WINNING THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Rose Garden 11:16 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Well, this is not how I expected to wake up this morning. After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" And then Sasha added, "Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up." So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective. I am both surprised and ...
Obama Won the What?
By Melinda Henneberger
When the morning editor called to alert me to the "Whaaaa?'' news that Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, my first thought was, "Tom, you kidder. Why are you really calling?'' It's not exactly like giving an Academy Award to a Vince Vaughn movie, but "surprising'' doesn't begin to cover it. (No word yet on whether Glenn Beck's head has exploded, though Rush Limbaugh was his usual gracious self, opining that Obama had in fact been rewarded for self-loathing: "They love a weakened, neutered U.S.,'' he said, referring, one supposes, to our European allies.) Still, just as our president ...
Max Cleland: 'I Cried Uncontrollably for 2 1/2 Years'
By Melinda Henneberger
In a phone interview on Monday, former Georgia Sen. Max Cleland was upbeat – "What's goin' on, kid?'' – and quick to laugh. But after losing his U.S. Senate seat to an opponent who ran post-9/11 TV ads that showed the decorated Vietnam vet alongside Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, Cleland fell into a depression he was afraid he might not pull out of. It was public service, he says, that had given his life shape and meaning after he left three limbs on a battlefield in Khe Sanh. But without that role, the old darkness came back. Along with his job and his bearings, he lost his ...
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