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Don't count Biden out in 2016
As the second Obama term gets underway, much is being said and written about the president finally emerging as a tougher, stronger Democrat in the liberal mold of past party greats. His second inaugural address pressed Republicans in Congress to accept...
Tags: John Adams, Barack Obama, Paul Ryan, Elections, Walter Mondale
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GOP to showcase Rubio as new face of party
In the Republican Party's developing effort to put on a new face after November's presidential defeat, the latest gesture is trotting out freshman Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida to deliver the GOP response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union...
Tags: American Enterprise Institute, Tea Party Movement, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Elections
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The sequester stand-off
Is this really the best anyone in Washington can do to avert sequestration? President Barack Obama's call for delaying the automatic spending cuts past the March 1 deadline would seem reasonable enough, except he hasn't really offered up a specific plan...
Tags: American Enterprise Institute, Tea Party Movement, Barack Obama, Elections, Consumer Confidence
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The GOP crack-up
Soon after President Barack Obama's second inaugural address, Speaker of the House John Boehner said the White House would try "to annihilate the Republican Party" and "shove us into the dustbin of history." Actually, the GOP is doing a pretty good...
Tags: Immigration, Minority Groups, Culture, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements
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Obama's debt-ceiling strategy could put the squeeze on GOP
A week before his inauguration, President Barack Obama said he wouldn't negotiate with Republicans over raising the federal debt limit. At an unexpected news conference Jan. 14, the president asserted that he won't trade cuts in government spending in...
Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Fiscal Cliff, U.S. Senate, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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The GOP's cynical debt limit ploy
With President Barack Obama holding his ground on tax increases for the wealthy, congressional Republicans appear intent to make a tactical retreat from the fiscal cliff to an issue where they believe they have more leverage: the nation's debt ceiling....
Tags: Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Elections, Consumers, Fiscal Cliff
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Republicans' infrastructure hypocrisy
If you want to see where rank hypocrisy sits in full flower, you have only to observe Republicans at their desks in the House and Senate. There, they have been openly ridiculing President Barack Obama's proposed $50 billion stimulus bill for desperately...
Tags: United Nations, Entertainment Events, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Government Health Care
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Another voice joins Harford's Democrat vs. Republican election analysis
Editor: My good friend Stuart Tamres appears to have misunderstood the recent letter from Wendy Sawyer that appeared in The Aegis. Rather than calling on everyone to blindly jump on the Democratic bandwagon, she merely stated the obvious: President Obama...Tags: Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Elections, Republican Party, Democratic Party
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Obama begins new term with calls for unity, equality
President Barack Obama began his second term Monday by calling for an end to the rigid ideologies of modern politics but laying out a broad policy agenda more likely to stoke partisan confrontation than avoid it.
Looking out over hundreds of thousands of...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Kelly Clarkson, Gun Control
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Both parties need new leadership in Congress
Rep. Nancy Pelosi has returned as the Democratic House minority leader. While I can't speak to the internal operation of the Democratic caucus, I can speak to the public persona that Ms. Pelosi presents, and it is not good. When speaker of the House, her...Tags: Severna Park, John Boehner, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid
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GOP road to recovery should start with civility
Post-election, Republican analysts are attempting to determine "what went wrong" by interpreting voting patterns based on skin color, gender and income, very accessible statistics. Yet, news coverage reveals an electorate expressing a profound moral...Tags: Ellicott City, Tea Party Movement, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements
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Republicans are the ones to be ashamed
Letter writer Ilene O'Connell says she "has never been more ashamed" of her country than she was on the evening of Election Day ("Ashamed of country that re-elected Obama," Nov. 8). She asks, "How can people ignore the doubling of the price of gasoline,...Tags: Barack Obama, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Petroleum Industry, Elections, Rush Limbaugh
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