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$825 Billion... With Band-Aids For Health Care?

Pia Sawhney | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Politics, U.S. Senate, Senate, Obama Transition Team, Health, President Obama, Breaking Politics News, Obama Administration, Obama Transition, Senate Democrats, Health Care, Barack Obama, Economy, Obama, Recession, Recession Fears, Politics News

When all companies find that the cost of healthcare is bogging them down, this would be the area to fix in an economic stimulus. Will healthcare be the greatest failure of the new administration?

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Blagojevich 2.0

Lloyd Garver | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

What Blagojevich did is so shocking that it could make "Lincoln turn over in his grave." But Caroline getting the seat because of her zillion-dollar fund raising ability wouldn't do the same?

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She's No Kennedy

Michael Wolff | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Edward Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy Senate Seat, Kennedys, U.S. Senate, Caroline Kennedy Senate, David Paterson Caroline Kennedy, David Paterson, Hillary Clinton Senate Seat, Politics News

Caroline Kennedy is a woman. Some of the most oppressed people on earth are women named Kennedy. Ergo, appointing Caroline to the US Senate is striking a blow for women and humankind.

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An Anti-Kennedy Coalition: Radio Ranters and Intellectuals

Martin Nolan | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Ellen Alderman, Otis Pike, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joseph P. Kennedy, Hempstead, Greenwich Village, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ted Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Harvard, Eugene McCarthy, Ronald Reagan. Adlai StevensonRobert Kennedy, Ed McCormack, James Buckley, Kenneth Keating Sam Stratton, Alfonse D'Amato, Caroline Kennedy Senate Seat, Caroline Kennedy Senate, David Paterson Caroline Kennedy, David Paterson, Roosevelts, Adamses, U.S. Senate, Hillary Clinton Senate Seat, Politics News

The Empire State is a triumvirate uniting the House of Clinton, the House of Cuomo and the House of Paterson. Would reviving the Kennedy dynasty disturb this delicate ecological balance?

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New Senate Boosts Wilderness Protection Across US

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green

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WASHINGTON — In a rare Sunday session, the Senate advanced legislation that would set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as wilderne...

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GOP Sees Franken As Public Enemy Number 1

Politico | ALEXANDER BURNS | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republicans Hate Franken, Gop Hates Franken, Norm Coleman, Al Franken, Minnesota Senate Race, US Senate, Politics News

With only a longshot court appeal standing in the way of Democrat Al Franken's election to the Senate, Republicans are gritting their teeth and bracin...

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Chris Matthews Tells Staff: I'm Not Running For Senate

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 02.07.2009 | Media

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WASHINGTON — MSNBC political commentator Chris Matthews has told his colleagues he won't be leaving television to run for a U.S. Senate seat fro...

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Burris Hoping to be Crowned Emperor of Universe

Andy Borowitz | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

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Just hours after being denied a seat in the U.S. Senate, Roland W. Burris said that he was no longer interested in that position and would instead seek to be crowned Emperor of the Universe.

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Caroline Kennedy: Don't Tear Down That Wall

Howard Bragman | Posted 02.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Caroline Kennedy Senate Seat, Politics, Caroline Kennedy, U.S. Senate, Caroline Kennedy Senate, Hillary Clinton Senate Seat, Politics News

I don't like to be too simplistic but you either love life in the public eye or you don't. I don't believe Caroline Kennedy loves it.

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Coleman Should Concede to Victorious Senator Franken

Brian Normoyle | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics

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Coleman's earlier admonishments about healing quickly and sparing taxpayer dollars have given way to a stubborn refusal to be a man of his word.

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Norm Coleman's Term Officially Expires

New York Times | Liz Robbins | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Minnesota Recount, Minnesota Senate Seat, US Senate, Minnesota, Norm Coleman, Al Franken, Politics News

Count. Recount. File legal motion. Recount. File legal motion. It might be faster for the next United States senator from Minnesota to get to Washing...

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Burris Flap Tosses Glare on Virtual Lily White Senate

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Elections, Politics, Bobby Rush, 17th Amendment, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Illinois, US Senate, Democrats, Roland Burris, Barack Obama, Politics News

The Senate's glaring diversity problem goes far beyond the white out of African Americans. The paucity of openly gay members, minorities and women among the 100 senators is just as glaring.

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Alan Hoffman Returns To Washington As VP-Elect Joe Biden's Deputy Chief Of Staff

Erin Medlicott | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics

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As U.S. Senator Joe Biden's (D-DE) Chief of Staff from 1998 through 2003, Alan L. Hoffman directed Biden's agenda, communications and political operations, and managed everything from legislative affairs to personnel.

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Send Caroline Kennedy to Court of St. James

Steve Clemons | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics

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Obama should stop this torment that is being prepared for Kennedy by offering her the Court of St. James, the U.S. Ambassadorship to Great Britain.

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Caroline Kennedy Refuses To Disclose Financial Records, Basic Information

nytimes.com | DAVID M. HALBFINGER | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

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If she were applying to be, say, an undersecretary of education in Barack Obama's new administration, Caroline Kennedy would have to fill out a 63-ite...

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The Populist Case for Caroline Kennedy

Al Giordano | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

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Caroline Kennedy's open support for marriage rights for gays and lesbians in an era when top liberal Democrats can't bring themselves to support it offers the best antidote to the Rick Warren blues yet.

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7 Days: Green Jobs, Caroline Kennedy and Rick Warren

Mark Green | Posted 01.20.2009 | Politics

Is Obama's choice of Rick Warren another example of the president-elect giving conservatives the visual while later giving progressives the policy?

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Confidence in Caroline

Denise Dennis | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

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If selected by Governor Paterson, Caroline Kennedy would make an excellent United States senator from the great state of New York. She has lived in ...

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Caroline Kennedy and the U.S. Senate

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

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The notion that it would somehow be unfair to appoint Kennedy because she has not toiled in the House of Representatives for a decade should not be one that ordinary voters take seriously.

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Caroline Kennedy is the New Fifty

Suzanne Braun Levine | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women and Politics, Senate Races, Caroline Kennedy Senate Seat, U.S. Senate, Caroline Kennedy Senate, Hillary Clinton Senate Seat, Caroline Kennedy, Politics News

Women in their fifties and sixties -- what I call our Second Adulthood -- are a new breed, liberated by better health, greater longevity, experience in the larger world, and self-confidence that is increasing every day.

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The Political Growth and Power of Caroline Kennedy

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

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It's possible that I am being too sensitive about gender bias, but is the "experience" question raised more frequently for women than it is for men?

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Is Caroline Kennedy our Sarah Palin?

Chris Kelly | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

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One of them has a law degree from Columbia and has co-written two critically acclaimed books about the Bill of Rights. The other has a journalism degree from college in general and had a memorable conversation with Katie Couric.

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Our Blagojevich, Ourselves

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, U.S. Senate, Social Networks, Social Networking, Rod Blagojevich, Barack Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Politics News

The Blagojevich scandal serves as a reminder that a great many decisions about who gets what in life are determined by unstated considerations that often have little to do with merit.

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