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By Eugene Robinson — There are important lessons from the past year that Barack Obama and his team had better learn if he is to achieve his goal of being a “transformational” president.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Democrats should be worried about the trouble in Tuesday’s Massachusetts Senate race that forced President Obama to Boston on Sunday for a last-minute campaign rescue mission.
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By David Sirota — On economic issues, we are often told that right is center, center is left, and left is fringe. For a year, national reporters (with help from conservative talk-radio goons) have depicted the center-right Obama administration and its corporatist policies as quasi-Marxist.
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By Eugene Robinson — Republican Party grandees were all set to use Michael Steele in the most cynical way. Now it’s becoming clear that Steele has been using the users all along.
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By Ruth Marcus — It’s not time for presidential panic, but lawmakers up for re-election could be in a different boat if Obama’s ratings stay in this slump.
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By Joe Conason — If the Senate majority leader’s private remarks about the skin tone and speaking style of Barack Obama was offensive, the Republican crusade to oust him from his leadership position is worse.
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By Ruth Marcus — The Senate majority leader acted like an idiot when he commented on Barack Obama’s race, but he was also right.
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By Joe Conason — The latest terrorist attack against the United States proves that the Republican exploitative response to terror is as predictable as al-Qaida’s urge to kill.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The North Dakota senator’s retirement after three decades is an unfortunate twist for Democrats already looking at a difficult election year.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Democrats can avoid a midterm rout if they get progressives excited without turning off independent voters. Here’s how.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — I’m afraid that the past 10 years will be seen as a time when the United States badly lost its way by using our military power carelessly and pursuing domestic policies that constrained our options for the future.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Punditry in the nation’s capital has its own rhythms, and one common practice involves almost everyone beating up on the same politician at the same time.
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By Eugene Robinson — When all is said and done the health care reform legislation that President Obama now seems likely to sign into law, while an unlovely mess, will be remembered as a landmark accomplishment.
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Yasha Levine — The anti-government insurrectionist has taken more than a quarter-million dollars in government handouts thanks to corrupt farming subsidies she has been collecting for at least a decade.
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By Eugene Robinson — The fact is some can play this game and some can’t. Nancy Pelosi delivers time and again. Harry Reid hasn’t. The president and his chief of staff could use some coaching, too.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Joe Conason — By bowing to Sen. Lieberman and his obstructive pals in both parties on health care reform, Obama has confirmed what Republicans always say about Democrats: They simply aren’t strong enough to govern.
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AP / Koji Sasahara
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By Mark Heisler — The world is living from development to development, suggesting something much more important is going on. What will it take, exactly, before we butt out?
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Collage: Gravel photo from Flickr / Center for American Progress Action Fund
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By Chris Hedges — Few voices in American politics have been as consistent, as reasoned and as moral as his, which is one reason why Mike Gravel, on a chilly December morning, is in front of the White House, not inside it.
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By David Sirota — Without consequences—or worse, with rewards—for wrongdoing, there is an incentive to do wrong. One need look no further than Wall Street and Washington, D.C.
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Flickr / The Gifted Photographer / CC-BY-SA
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By Joe Conason — Evading the challenges of climate change—and the human responsibility to save the planet—is simple enough even for the laziest citizen.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Stanley Kutler — We have a “regulation czar,” but no new regulations. It seems we can expect little from those with a track record of enabling bad policies.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan and his subsequent jobs summit underscored why it’s essential to get a health care bill done quickly.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Obama’s surge in Afghanistan is a political loser, but in the short term he’ll get what he wants.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Jim Leach spent 30 years as a member of Congress. Now he’s an Obama Republican who wants America to return to civility.
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By Joe Conason — The puzzling thing about politicians of either party who claim to be “centrist” or “moderate” is how much they sometimes sound like party-line right-wing Republicans.
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By Stanley Kutler — The opposition’s decision to stall and oppose President Barack Obama’s judicial nominations smacks of hypocrisy, and further draws into question the majority’s ability to govern.
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By Ellen Goodman — You have to hand it to Sarah Palin. I don’t mean you have to hand her the 2012 nomination. Nor do you have to hand her the $24.64 I overpaid for “Going Rogue.”
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Democrats in the Senate may engage in collective suicide, but it’s Republicans who, with Machiavellian brilliance, have brought the country to a halt.
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By Eugene Robinson — No force on earth can stop Sarah Palin from becoming our very own “lite” version of Eva Peron—a glamorous and tragic legend, minus the tragedy.
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By Joe Conason — Republicans have made it clear they aren’t going to let honesty become an obstacle in the midterm elections.
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By Ellen Goodman — If pro-choice Democrats turn back reproductive rights, it proves that they can be rolled by intransigent opposition. And once rolled, it’s all downhill.
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By Ruth Marcus — The outright falsehoods peddled by Republican opponents to the House health reform bill lead one to wonder whether they have any genuine fact-based objections.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Here’s a story you may have missed because it flies in the face of the dreary conventional wisdom: When advocates of public programs take on the right-wing anti-government crowd directly, the government-haters lose.
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By Eugene Robinson — Democrats have some thinking to do after Tuesday’s elections, but Republicans don’t have time to think. They’re too busy trying to survive the party’s internal purge and avoid being shipped off to political Siberia.
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By Joe Conason — The more that Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and kindred spirits appear to represent the Republican brand, the less appeal that brand possesses.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Tuesday’s elections were a rebuke to the right wing and a warning to Democrats. President Obama has work to do, but the night’s biggest loser was the Palin-Limbaugh-Beck complex.
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They may have lost the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia, but Democrats expanded their majority in the House of Representatives by one seat Tuesday. Bill Owens won a surprise victory after a bizarre race that saw a third-party conservative candidate drive the Republican in this staunchly GOP district out of the running and into the arms of the Democrats.
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By Ruth Marcus — Advice to readers about the coming orgy of analysis about the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections: Ignore it.
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It was a night of disappointment for Democrats, who lost the governor’s mansion in New Jersey shortly after losing in Virginia. But was it a referendum on President Barack Obama’s agenda, as some pundits claimed, or testament to the unpopularity of incumbent governor and former Goldman Sachs CEO (great timing) Jon Corzine? (Continued)
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — It’s been a year since a healthy majority of American voters elected Barack Obama to change the world. Which is precisely what he’s doing.
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The party lines in New York’s 23rd Congressional District got even more confused Sunday. A day after a conservative third-party campaign hounded Dede Scozzafava out of the race, the moderate Republican turned around and endorsed her Democratic rival. Politico reports on the Democrats’ ... (continued)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Barring astoundingly self-defeating behavior by Democrats, a decent bill will get to Obama’s desk. Whether lawmakers are rewarded or punished for their efforts will largely be decided in the coming weeks.
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By David Sirota — The former financial executives inside the Obama administration have labeled their bill the “Financial Stability Improvement Act,” but it’s more like the 9/11 of bailouts.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Those are the two outstanding lessons from the campaigns for next Tuesday’s governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia. Both parties would be smart to apply them in 2010.
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