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White House Takes to Twitter to Embrace Obama’s ‘Jedi Mind Meld’
Tweet Share on Facebook March 1, 2013 CommentGive the communications team at the White House credit. Hours after President Obama committed a sci fi #nerdfail that set caused geeks everywhere to feel a great disturbance in the Force, the White House Twitter account turned the incident into another vehicle for promoting his sequestration solution.
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Violence Against Women Act Win Shows Obama Has House GOP’s Number
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2013 CommentThe Violence Against Women Act passed the House today with bipartisan support. The renewal of the law represents a win for good public policy. It also marks another win for President Obama's legislative strategy as he reaps the rewards of the conservative movement's widening schism from the main stream of American thought.
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Did the Obama White House Threaten Bob Woodward?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2013 CommentSo is the Obama administration going to the mattresses against iconic Washington Post columnist Bob Woodward? Is that a Predator drone I see circling over a certain Georgetown residence? OK everyone, take a deep breath and back away from the crazy train. Looking at the exchange in full gives the impression that at best Woodward is being oversensitive and at worst outright disingenuous.
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The Republicans' Conservative Problem, In One Quotation
Tweet Share on Facebook February 27, 2013 CommentRyan Lizza's New Yorker profile of Eric Cantor has rightly gotten a lot of attention this week. Cantor's admission to having been the knife man nixing the almost-"grand bargain" on the deficit between House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama has especially received prominent play around the Web this week. But there was another quote that lept out at me as illustrating how deep the GOP's problems run, especially as regards to its truculent conservative wing.
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Why Did CPAC Snub New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 27, 2013 CommentI'm sorry, why exactly has New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie been banned from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC to its friends and attendees)? Why would CPAC want to exclude him? Could it be that the right has gotten so weirdly, short-sightedly venal?
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Were the Sequester Spending Cuts Obama's Idea?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 19, 2013 CommentThe Great Sequester Showdown of 2013 (also known as Fiscal Wars: Episode Ad Nauseum) is in its final stretch, with big, harmful spending cuts due to hit in 10 days and each side seeming to settle on its closing argument in the fight. President Obama made his case at the White House today, surrounded by firefighters and first responders. His view, in short: Let's avoid the sequester by replacing it with deficit reduction that includes both spending cuts and new tax revenues. The short version of the GOP case is: The sequester was Obama's idea.
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Ex-Obama Aide ‘Skeptical’ Approval Ratings Will Stay Over 50 Percent
Tweet Share on Facebook February 14, 2013 CommentOne last item I didn't get a chance to pull out of yesterday's Atlantic/National Journal post-State of the Union event but which struck me as interesting: Former top Obama aide Bill Burton said that he's "skeptical" about whether the president's approval rating will stay above 50 percent, simply because the country is so polarized.
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Key Dem Warns Obama Party Could Split on Medicare, Social Security
Tweet Share on Facebook February 13, 2013 CommentPresident Obama's State of the Union address has been widely praised on the left for laying out a progressive governing vision. But when it comes to entitlements there may yet be trouble in paradise.
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Obama Surprised Dems With Guns, Minimum Wage, Universal Preschool Calls
Tweet Share on Facebook February 13, 2013 CommentGive credit to the White House for smart stagecraft in setting up the most dramatic moment of last night's State of the Union address, President Obama's electric exhortation that victims of gun violence deserve a vote on gun control measures.
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Three Things Obama Did Right In His State of the Union Address
Tweet Share on Facebook February 13, 2013 CommentThree quick takeaways on President Obama's State of the Union address, and one on Marco Rubio's reply.
