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The GOP and Presidential Power

Robert J. Spitzer | Posted 03.04.2012 | Politics
Read More: Calvin Coolidge, Ronald Reagan, Signing Statements, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, State Secrets, President Obama, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, James Madison, Presidential Power, Robert A. Taft, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Conservatives, Counterterrorism, William H. Taft, Charlie Savage, War Powers Resolution, Politics News
Robert J. Spitzer

As we begin the countdown to the November elections, let's appreciate how much American governance has become a debate over presidential power -- from health care, to the economy, to foreign policy.

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Boehner-McConnell: The Movie

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Jim Carrey, Robert Mitchum, Mitch McConnell, Jerry Lewis, John Boehner, John Sherman Cooper, James Traficant, Napoleon, Robert A. Taft, George v. Higgins, Barack Obama, Clint Eastwood, Charlie McCarthy, Henry Clay, Edgar Bergen, Walter Brennan, Franklin Pangborn, Frank Luntz, W.C. Fields, Politics News
Martin Nolan

Both Boehner and McConnell have deluded themselves into believing they have already triumphed. Health care was to be Obama's Waterloo, but he won that battle. Those he defeated have become Napoleons.

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