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Senate Slacks Off While Pelosi, Bachmann Lead in the House
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2011 Comment (3)The lights are on in the Capitol, but is anybody home this fine 29th of June?
The scrappy House is full of sound and noise, and not a little fury as they take floor votes. That's where the grand fight battleground is actually going on between the two parties for the future. As if to prove the point, The Washington Post ran a front page picture of Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Monday, followed by a front page picture of Rep. Michele Bachmann, now a presidential contender, Tuesday. These two formidable women are in a way the generals, each with a partisan war plan of one's own.
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House GOP Freshmen Could Bring Debt Ceiling Disaster
Tweet Share on Facebook June 21, 2011 Comment (12)There are 87 of them running loose in the House—and for the 80-plus that have never served in Congress before, this is their first rodeo. Meet the House Republican class of 2010, mostly a sea of white male Christian faces. For they are coming to call very soon.
Get out your best Tea Party sets, everybody.
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Prediction: Hillary Clinton Will Tell Weiner's Wife to Leave Him
Tweet Share on Facebook June 13, 2011 Comment (22)Just imagine the conversation between Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, and Huma Abedin, the 30-something adviser she considers close enough to be her second daughter. In the whole wide world of women, Hillary had to feel Huma's pain the most over her disgraced and disloyal husband, and not just because she's her boss.
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Not Enough Shame From Weiner, Palin, Edwards
Tweet Share on Facebook June 7, 2011 Comment (22)June's lovely light brings us to the brink of whether our American democracy will end in tragedy or in farce. Happy endings in American history are lessons handed down as part of our birthright, starting with the midnight ride of Paul Revere. Looking round right now, the state of things isn't a story I'd like our schoolchildren to hear. As we approach the nation's 235th birthday in July, let's gather up pieces of what's going on around here.
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Republicans Disrespect Obama on Debt Ceiling
Tweet Share on Facebook June 2, 2011 Comment (32)So yesterday a gaggle of House Republican leaders went to see President Obama in the White House, where he lives as the elected leader of our American democracy, but they did not pay their respects. Nor did they listen to sweet reason on the economy's quiet desperation.
