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Published: 01/27/11

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the State of the Union, and the Empty Chair

By Donna Trussell

On display during the State of the Union speech was the vacant chair that would have been occupied by Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who could not attend because she was in a hospital recovering from a bullet wound to the head. Recuperation could take as long as a year. The empty chair got to ...

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Published: 01/26/11

Obama, Gingrich and 'Winning the Future': Petty Larceny or Fair Game?

By Jill Lawrence

The phrase that President Barack Obama used 10 times in his State of the Union address, and at least five more times during a visit to Wisconsin on Wednesday, is also the title of a 2005 book by Newt Gingrich. Wherever they are on the political spectrum, it seems great minds agree that America must ...

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Published: 01/26/11

Did National Journal Break Embargo on State of the Union Speech?

By Andrea Stone

WASHINGTON -- Call it a broken embargo, a leak or a scoop but when the National Journal posted the full text of President Obama's State of the Union speech nearly two hours before he was scheduled to deliver it Tuesday night, the media world noticed. Indeed, for a wonkish compendium revered inside ...

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Published: 01/26/11

Michele Bachmann is a 'Balloon Head' in Chris Matthews' Book

By Joanne Bamberger

"Balloon Head" isn't the name of the upcoming Seth Rogen movie. But that's really what MSNBC's Chris Matthews called Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann for comments in a recent speech about when slavery ended in America. I don't disagree with Matthews' decision to call Bachmann out on her ...

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Published: 01/26/11

State of the Union: What the . . . ?

By Robert and Donna Trussell

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Published: 01/26/11

Deficit to Hit $1.5 Trillion in 2011, Congressional Budget Office Warns

By Tom Diemer

The morning after President Obama warned that a "legacy of deficit spending" threatened to bury the nation in debt, a nonpartisan Capitol Hill office brought the reality home: the budget gap this year is headed toward a record $1.5 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office said a slow-recovering ...

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Published: 01/26/11

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Skips State of the Union Speech as 'Designated Survivor'

By Tom Diemer

Did you miss the guy in the cowboy hat? Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was chosen by the White House as the missing man Tuesday night -- the Cabinet officer not attending the State of the Union speech to assure continuity of government in the event of a catastrophe. Because the president, vice ...

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Published: 01/26/11

Michele Bachmann's Fine, but Superfluous, Rebuttal

By Matt Lewis

Yesterday, I argued that Rep. Michele Bachmann's "tea party rebuttal" to the State of the Union address could backfire on conservatives. Rep. Paul Ryan, who was scheduled to deliver the official GOP response, is, after all, a capable conservative communicator. Why dilute his message? What's more, I ...

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Published: 01/26/11

Obama's Centrist Tone Hits Right Note; State of the Union Ratings Soar

By Melinda Henneberger

The bar was lower for Barack Obama's State of the Union address because he only recently gave the speech of his life in Tucson -- and in the aftermath of that tragedy, no one in the chamber was going to so much as whisper, "You fib.'' The proof? Early reviews suggest that his calls for unity, ...

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Published: 01/26/11

State of the Union Reaction Falls Along Party Lines

By Andrea Stone

Reaction to Tuesday night's State of the Union address, the most-wired ever and perhaps the most measured and mild in memory, echoed a predictable plethora of previews and prebuttals that fell along party lines. Republicans, led officially by their resident budget guru and in an unsanctioned ...

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