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Zogby: Obama More Bystander Than Leader
Tweet Share on Facebook March 11, 2011 Comment (6)Pollster John Zogby updates our weekly Obama Report Card with a grade on the president's performance. Zogby uses his polling, expert analysis, and interaction with major players to come up with a grade and some comments that capture how he sees the president's week ending.
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Kansas Senator Has Power, Just Not Over Daughter
Tweet Share on Facebook March 9, 2011 CommentAfter serving eight terms in the House and now in his third term in the Senate, Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts has a lot of power in Washington. But like most parents, even he can't always control what his own children do.
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Delaware Senator Pitches Chicken Trade to Russia
Tweet Share on Facebook March 9, 2011 CommentDemocratic Delaware Sen. Thomas Carper gave members of the Senate Finance Committee a Sesame Street-like lesson on the letter "C" today at a hearing discussing the president's 2011 trade agenda. Unlike probably everywhere else, however, "C" isn't for cookie in the First State.
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Budget Debate: Big Actual Vs. Tiny Reality
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Reagan's 'Evil Empire' Speech to Be Memorialized
Tweet Share on Facebook March 9, 2011 Comment (1)In this year of Ronald Reagan's centennial, there's talk of yet another new memorial, this one to his famous "Evil Empire" speech in March 8, 1983 in Orlando, where he decried the Soviet Union's "totalitarian darkness." [See photos of Ronald Reagan.]
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House GOP Readies More Spending Cuts
Tweet Share on Facebook March 8, 2011 Comment (1)House Republican leaders, miffed that Senate Democrats won't take up their larger fiscal 2011 budget and lead budget negotiator Vice President Joe Biden's abandonment of spending talks, now plan to pass another two-week to four-week continuing resolution before the government shuts down. The new "CR" will include "proportional cuts" equal to the $4 billion in the last CR. [See a slide show of 10 Effects of a Government Shutdown.]
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Americans Want to Cut Federal Employee Benefits
Tweet Share on Facebook March 8, 2011 Comment (35)Americans are not in a very charitable mood when it comes to the benefits federal workers take home. In our latest Washington Whispers poll of areas that should be slashed the deepest, bureaucrats come out on top, with 31 percent demanding a cut in federal worker benefits. [See the top paid federal employees.]
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House Democrats Plan a 2012 Comeback
Tweet Share on Facebook March 8, 2011 Comment (3)Nancy Pelosi won’t be cooling her jets for long if the Democrats get their way in next year’s elections. By winning back just 25 seats, she’d be speaker again. Their focus is on the 61 Republicans in districts President Obama won in 2008, and especially the 14 also won by Sen. John Kerry in 2004. Their “Drive to 25” bid includes a pitch warning voters that budget cuts pushed by their local GOP member would cost jobs. Republicans aren’t worried, but confident that voters will approve of their budget cutting. Also, they think redistricting will give them 10 more GOP House seats.
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New Laws Work to Curb Teen Abortion Rates
Tweet Share on Facebook March 7, 2011 Comment (3)A stunning new report that is sure to spur on GOP efforts in states and Washington to push for greater limits on abortion funding and availability finds that anti-abortion laws enacted since 1990 in some 34 states have helped to slash abortion rates by over 22 percent.
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Gas Prices Spike in Obama's Neighborhood
Tweet Share on Facebook March 7, 2011 Comment (1)It doesn't pay to live in President Obama's neighborhood, at least in the pain in the gas department. The Watergate Exxon, pictured on top, and the M Street Exxon, shown at bottom, are just a mile from the White House. It is highly unlikely that President Obama is aware of these high prices, but Vice President Joe Biden, Majority Leader Harry Reid, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi all pass by these stations from time to time, giving them a bird's eye view of the gas price surges Americans have been witnessing since the democracy protests began in Egypt and Libya.
