Partisanship

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Published: 12/10/10

Democrats and Obama: No Wonder He's Torn

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Published: 11/24/10

Democrats and Republicans: Quit That Cryin' or I'll Give You Somethin' to Cry About

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Published: 11/10/10

The World According to GOP

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Published: 10/5/10

Palin vs. Obama in New 'NBA Jam' Basketball Video Game

By Dave Thier - AOL News

(Oct. 5) -- Ever wonder who would win in a basketball game between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin? Seriously? It's still an open question whether or not the country will ever see the two go up against each other in a general election, but a new video game will at least us see how they fare on the court: "NBA Jam," the latest title in a long-running series from EA Sports, will allow players to control teams of the country's most prominent politicos as they take their arguments to a place where gaffes only matter if the ref calls a technical. Hidden celebrities have been a part of the franchise ...

Published: 10/5/10

When the Public Looks at Congress, What It Sees Is Bickering, Poll Says

By Bruce Drake - Politics Daily

Some Capitol Hill lawmakers have decried the increasing poisonous atmosphere on Capitol Hill characterized by the partisan standoff between the two parties, and the public has certainly noted that themselves: Three-quarters say Republicans and Democrats are bickering more, a big jump over the number who felt that way last year, according to a Pew Research Center/National Journal poll conducted Sept. 30-Oct. 3. Seventy-seven percent said lawmakers are bickering more, something on which Republicans, Democrats and independents agree. Somewhere out there are 8 percent who say the parties are ...

Published: 09/16/10

Opinion: Common Ground Can Be Found

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(Sept. 16) -- Tuesday night, Delaware, New Hampshire and New York joined Nevada, Colorado, Florida and Kentucky in the ranks of states where establishment Republican candidates have fallen to GOP outsiders in this year's primaries -- evidence, some pundits suggest, that voters are likely in store for more, not less, partisan politics inside the Beltway next year. If true, America's current trend flies in the face of the philosophy espoused by Irish statesman and political theorist Edmund Burke more than 200 years ago: "All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, ...

Published: 09/8/10

Obama: GOP Vision 'Not the America We Believe In'

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Published: 09/8/10

Obama Economy Speech: GOP Vision for U.S. 'Not the America I Believe In'

By Alex Wagner - Politics Daily

President Obama flew to Ohio on Wednesday to issue a sharp rebuke to the Republican Party, present several new measures aimed at boosting the economy, and to call for an end of Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy. Speaking at Cuyahoga Community College campus in Parma, a Cleveland suburb, the president took aim squarely at the GOP and specifically at Republican House leader John Boehner of Ohio, who had visited the state last month to criticize the White House economic strategy. Obama cited Boehner by name several times and called Republican prescriptions for the country, "not the America I ...

Published: 08/5/10

HBO's '12th and Delaware' — Where Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Intersect

By Donna Trussell - Politics Daily

The title of the documentary, "12th and Delaware," now showing on HBO, seemed lackluster until I understood its significance. Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady [disclosure: Grady is the daughter of my Politics Daily colleagues Bonnie Goldstein and James Grady] the film tells the story of an abortion clinic that opened at 12th & Delaware in Fort Pierce, Fla. in 1991. Eight years later, a pro-life Pregnancy Care Center opened up directly across the street. Today, 12th and Delaware is where pro-life and pro-choice passions intersect. I have a love-hate relationship with documentaries. ...