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David Plouffe's Today Show Interview: Weighs In On 2009 Elections, Obama's Job Performance (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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Tuesday's elections are local races -- not measures of President Obama's ability to deliver or a referendum on the president's popularity, according t...

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GOP Health Care Bill WON'T Prevent Insurance Companies From Denying Sick People

Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Republicans are preparing to unveil their own health bill in the next few days. Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) said Monday that the plan woul...

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Harry Reid Reassures Democrats That Joe Lieberman Is On Board With Health Care Bill

The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Joe Lieberman has reached a private understanding with Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will not block a final vote on healthcare reform, accor...

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Doug Hoffman's Campaign Cash: 95% From Outside District

The Washington Independent | Lazar Backovic | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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It's no secret that national fundraising has buoyed the campaign of Conservative Party candidate for the NY-23 special election Doug Hoffman. But the ...

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Joe Wilson Blames Obama For H1N1 Vaccine Shortage After Voting Against Its Funding

Talking Points Memo | Evan McMorris-Santoro | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) says President Obama has endangered American lives by not doing more to alleviate the nation's short supply of H1N1 vaccine. In...

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Are Moderates No Longer Welcome In The Republican Party?

AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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ALBANY, N.Y. — In a Republican Party struggling to find its identity, the surprise withdrawal of the chosen GOP candidate for a New York congres...

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GOP Health Bill In The Works; Boehner Says Republican Bill Would Extend Insurance Coverage To "Millions"

Wall Street Journal | GREG HITT | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Republicans are preparing an alternative health-care bill to Democratic legislation, House Republican Leader John Boehner said, marking a shift in str...

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Democrats' Quiet Changes Pile Up

Wall Street Journal | JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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While President Barack Obama still faces stiff headwinds on a range of major legislation on his agenda, he has been signing into law a slew of smaller...

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Frank Rich On Scozzafava Fallout: The GOP Stalinists Invade Upstate New York

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

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Barack Obama's most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the ...

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Ed Schultz: Obama Would "Sell His Soul" For GOP Support On Health Care (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

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On Friday night on The Ed Show, Ed Schultz gave an impassioned speech calling out the president for making concessions on health care and abandoning t...

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Dierdre Scozzafava Drops Out Of NY House Race

AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 11.01.2009 | New York

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ALBANY, N.Y. — Fighting plunging support, Republican Dierdre Scozzafava abruptly suspended her campaign Saturday in a special election for a U.S...

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GOP Identity Crisis Finds New Home: Upstate New York

McClatchy | Steven Thomma | Posted 10.31.2009 | New York

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A special election for an open seat in the U.S House of Representatives has turned into a high-profile proxy war over how the party should come back f...

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Heart-Stopping Hallowe'en Horror, Left And Right

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

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Happy Samhain, everyone, if that isn't an inherent oxymoron. For those of you who expected (and were, of course, waiting for with bated breath... what...

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Elie Wiesel Appears With End Times Pastor John Hagee, Hagee Trashes Obama

Max Blumenthal | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media

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During an unofficial panel of bloggers and activists at J Street's conference, I criticized Wiesel and Oren for associating with Hagee. Why is Wiesel palling around with Hagee? Why did I "mock" Wiesel?

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Gorbachev: George H. W. Bush Called Reagan "Extreme" And GOP Supporters "Blockheads"

The Nation | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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On September 23, Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and her husband, Stephen F. Cohen, a contributing editor, interviewed former Soviet President Mik...

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John Boehner Fumbles On GOP Health Care Plan

Think Progress | Faiz Shakir | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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Republicans have been insisting for months that Democrats are shoving a secret bill down the throats of the American public. The health reform legisla...

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GOP to Protest Mom and Apple Pie

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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Conservatives are topping even themselves, as they actually complain about the President calling for Americans to volunteer. If this keeps up, they are going to put The Onion out of business.

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GOP Health Care Website Fails To Mention Senior Citizens

Think Progress | Victor Zapanta | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-IN) held a press conference today to explain why prog...

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Obama Abuse

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

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The verbiage being hurled at President Obama sounds, to my twenty five years of counseling-trained ears, more like the rhetoric of abuse than of political discourse.

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'Tea Party Express II: Rise of the Tea Bags' - The Movie!

Brad Friedman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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So we went out to Griffith Park out here in L.A. on Sunday to check out the kick-off day for the new "Tea Party Express II" national tour. Thought we ...

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Chamber Of Commerce To Begin Ads Against Health Care Reform

AP | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Looking to build pressure on moderate Democrats, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it will begin airing new TV ads in seven states ...

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Obama Strikes Back -- First Year Agenda, Phase III

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Phase III: Obama Strikes Back. The Republicans are still leaderless and teabaggers have hung up their Lipton for the winter. Meanwhile, two-thirds of Americans still want health care reform.

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2012 GOP Candidates as Diverse And Exciting as Their Ideas

Julie Farby | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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In the vast wasteland that is the 2012 GOP presidential landscape, fresh-faced stars join seasoned statesman to create a powerful right-wing juggernau...

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Opt-Out? Not So Fast My Friend -- KansasDeservesReform.com

Mike Nellis | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

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You've heard the statistics: 350,000 Kansans don't have health insurance, while thousands struggle in a system that costs more, but provides less.

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GOP Impatient With Party Leaders Over Health Care, Awaiting An Alternative Plan

The Hill | Molly K. Hooper | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

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Some House Republicans are growing frustrated that their leaders have not yet introduced a healthcare reform alternative. For months, the message fro...

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