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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
At Nashville Tea Party: Saving the Country, Waiting for Palin
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Joe Biden's Mother Dies at 92
By Christopher WeberVice President Joe Biden's mother, Jean Finnegan Biden, has died after becoming seriously ill in recent days. She was 92. In a statement, the vice president said Jean Biden died Friday in Wilmington, Del., surrounded by family, the Associated Press reported. "Together with my father, her husband of ...
Report: Sarah Palin Debate Advisers Predicted 'Debacle of Epic Proportions'
By Patricia Murphy
An adviser to John McCain who was preparing Sarah Palin for the vice presidential debate became so worried at Palin's weak performance in mock debates that he placed a panicked phone call to Steve Schmidt, the McCain campaign manager. "He told us the debate was going to be a debacle of historic ...
The Top 15 Winners and Losers of 2009
By Carl M. Cannon
WINNERS LOSERS 1. Barack Obama: Inaugurated as the first African- American president in U.S. history, he inherited two wars, the Great Recession, a Democratic Congress with a pent-up agenda, a liberal base with a litany of unrealistic demands, and a hostile Republican Party ...
Obama's Afghanistan Decision and the Art of the Tick-Tock
By Walter Shapiro
No group can possibly be as smug as presidential advisers after a major national security decision has been announced. Anyone who was ever allowed into the inner sanctum of the White House Situation Room, even if only to attend a deputies meeting, can bask in collective pride over the president's ...
Plouffe Book: Bill Clinton Doomed Hillary's VP Chances, Obama Predicted Palin Choice Debacle
By Jill Lawrence
The juiciest parts of advance excerpts from the new book by David Plouffe, President Obama's 2008 campaign manager, concern the vice presidential selection process in both parties. Obama seriously considered Hillary Clinton but concluded Bill Clinton posed too many complications, Plouffe writes. He ...
Senate Energy Bill: Obama, Biden and Cabinet Go All-In on Another Top Priority
By Jill Lawrence
Nothing says all-in like having the president, the vice president, three Cabinet secretaries, and two agency heads send the same "we care" message on the same day. It's all about achieving liftoff for the Senate energy and climate bill that's in the spotlight this week. It may seem as if that part ...
Biden's Popularity on a Downhill Slide
By Bruce DrakeVice President Joseph Biden's favorability ratings have been on a downhill slide since his election in November, falling from 59 percent who saw him favorably then to 40 percent now, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Oct. 16-19. Eighteen percent have no opinion. ...
Public Option: Win or Lose, Little Down Side for Senate Democrats
By Jill Lawrence
It's now settled that the health reform bill coming to the Senate floor will include a public insurance option, supported by premiums and run by the government, with states permitted to opt out if they don't want to offer it. And for the life of me, I can't find much of a down side for Democrats. ...
Joe Biden Smooths Rift With Poland Over Missile Shield
By David SessionsVice President Joe Biden visited Warsaw on Wednesday to propose a missile shield compromise with Poland, which expressed displeasure with President Obama's cancellation of a Bush-era missile shield a month ago, the New York Times reports. Poland and several other Eastern European nations had been ...
A Catholic Court? Let the Arguments Begin
By David Gibson
The new session of the Supreme Court of the United States opens Monday with a slate of important cases looming -- and a novelty that some worry is more than a historical curiosity: namely, with the addition of the newest justice, Sonia Sotomayor, six of the nine justices on the high court are . . . ...
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