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The demise of moderate Republicanism
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Among the casualties of the 2012 presidential election, along with Mitt Romney, was the vanishing breed of moderate Republicans of which he once was a star, until his embarrassing lurch into conservatism. Romney first failed to win the...Tags: Sociology, Tea Party Movement, Executive Branch, Government, John D. Rockefeller IV
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Fighting the last political war
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The 2012 Republican vice-presidential nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan, in previewing his revamped plan to balance the federal budget in 10 years, included a continuation of his party's campaign pledge to "repeal and replace Obamacare." Among...Tags: Paul Ryan, Government Health Care, White House, Parties and Movements, Medicare
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On talking things out
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- A Democratic president takes a bunch of Republican senators to dinner and invites the losing GOP vice-presidential nominee to lunch. Meanwhile, a freshman Republican filibusters the Senate for 13 hours against theoretical U.S. use of...Tags: John O. Brennan, Eric Holder, Central Intelligence Agency, James Stewart, White House
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One more Bush?
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Amid the wreckage of the Mitt Romney presidential debacle and the Republican scramble to find a new savior, now comes ... yet another Bush! The ruminations of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, son of one former president and younger brother...Tags: Executive Branch, Migration, POLITICO LLC, Government, Hillary Clinton
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Romney's surprising post-mortem
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- After three months of licking the wounds of his defeat, Mitt Romney surfaced Sunday on Fox News with a somewhat unexpected rationale for his disappointing election outcome. What cost him the White House, he seemed to say, was what he loved...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Ann Romney, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Fiddling while Rome burns
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Here are some of the run-ups to the current fiscal crisis threatening to rip holes in the fabric of American life and security as we know it: --A plunge over an imagined "fiscal cliff" is averted at the 11th hour, only to encounter a...Tags: Interior Policy, Entertainment Events, Tiger Woods, Government, White House
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Chuck Hagel survives
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- After all the thunder and lightning signifying nothing but more Republican obstructionism, former Sen. Chuck Hagel has taken over at the Pentagon, vowing a realistic approach to America's military role in the world. Not surprisingly, he...Tags: Washington, DC, Wars and Interventions, Parties and Movements, Conservation, John Kerry
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Bringing California back
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The state governor who once was America's youngest showed up at the National Governors Association meeting here this week as its oldest. Jerry Brown, who first served at age 38 as California's chief executive (1976-83), returned at age 74 in...Tags: Executive Branch, Citizens Initiative and Recall, Barack Obama, Voting, Government
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On partisan echo chambers
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- There was a time when the lines between the practices of politics and journalism were clear-cut. Professional politicians did their thing, which was getting elected and getting others elected. Professional journalists did theirs, writing and...Tags: Rush Limbaugh, The New York Times, Journalism, MSNBC (tv network), David Axelrod
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Targeting Hillary
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's swan song before the Senate and House committees on foreign affairs was in a sense a prelude to any future bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. It gave Republicans a last chance to cast her...Tags: Susan Rice, Benghazi, Hillary Clinton, White House, Mitt Romney
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Obama's blunt challenge to Congress
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Of all the words spoken, written about, broadcast, googled, tweeted or even just mused over in President Obama's State of the Union address, none were more pointedly delivered than the four in his direct appeal for tighter gun-control...Tags: Interior Policy, State of the Union Address, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, Washington, DC, White House
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Obama and Rubio: A study in contrasts
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The anticipated verbal duel Tuesday evening between President Obama and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida -- the former in his State of the Union Address and the latter in the official Republican response -- was an obvious mismatch....Tags: State of the Union Address, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Washington, DC, Marco Rubio, Parties and Movements
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