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Is anybody sad that Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate?
In a profession like politics and in a town like the nation's capital, the phenomenon of a U.S. senator voluntarily surrendering his seat for a think-tank job would have been unthinkable some years ago. The decision of Republican Jim DeMint of South...
Tags: Christine O'Donnell, Tea Party Movement, Primaries, Richard Lugar, Rush Limbaugh
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Why did Obama defend and then drop Susan Rice?
Whether Susan Rice jumped or was pushed from consideration to succeed retiring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, her removal from the equation clears one bone of partisan contention from President Barack Obama's plate as he heads into his second term....
Tags: John Kerry, George W. Bush, Susan Rice, Lindsey O. Graham, Civil Rights
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Republicans right to seek answers about Benghazi
In general, presidents should appoint whomever they want to serve in their cabinets. But that doesn't mean that re-elected President Barack Obama will — or even should — appoint U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to replace the soon-departing...
Tags: Benghazi, George W. Bush, Television Networks, John Kerry, Susan Rice
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Will it be Clinton? Cuomo? Warren?
Shortly after the 1988 presidential election, pollsters asked Democrats whom they favored to be their party's nominee in 1992. The strongest candidates were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York. The governor of...
Tags: Andrew Cuomo, James Carville, Martin O'Malley, Parties and Movements, Executive Branch
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Bob Dole and the GOP's disability
Much ink has been spilled in recent weeks criticizing the Republican Party and its failed presidential candidate for a lack of compassion and obvious antipathy toward "47 percent" of the electorate (if not a bit more), so it was reassuring to see two of...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Susan Collins, John Kerry, Kelly Ayotte, Marco Rubio
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GOP is attacking Rice to land another Senate seat
Your article, "New concerns arise after Rice, GOP senator meet," (Nov. 29) fails to mention what is generally accepted by insiders in Washington and that is that the Republican strategy behind the character assassination of Susan Rice is an attempt to...Tags: Susan Collins, John Kerry, Susan Rice, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements
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Romney's biggest problem is his own party
There are two major theories about why Mitt Romney is dropping in the polls. One is that Romney is a lousy candidate, unable to connect with people or make his case. The other is that Americans are finally beginning to see how radical the GOPhas become...
Tags: Brookings Institution, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, The Washington Post, Mitt Romney
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Mikulski touts role of women in Congress
Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, the self-styled dean of the Democratic women in Congress, urged support of female candidates in an address to her party's national convention Wednesday that came as both presidential campaigns sought to court women voters. As...
Tags: Time Warner Cable Arena, Feminism, Shelley Berkley, Barbara A. Mikulski, Mitt Romney
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Akin's rape comments elicit anger in Md., U.S.
Furor surged in Maryland and across the country Monday over a Missouri congressman's comment that he opposes abortion in most cases of rape because women rarely become pregnant during a "legitimate rape." Though Rep. Todd Akin, a Republican who is...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Abortion, U.S. Senate, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney
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Advocates, lawmakers plan fight to restore commuter tax break
Commuter advocates and Maryland lawmakers say they will fight to renew an expiring tax credit that benefits mass-transit users, including MARC riders.
Current federal law allows commuters to withhold up to $230 in pre-tax income each month that can be...Tags: Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), Carrollton, U.S. Senate, Credit and Debt, Unions
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We need a 'weapons BRAC'
The American defense community stands at a crossroads. The need to trim the defense budget, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently put it, is a "matter of simple arithmetic and political reality." Meanwhile, this year's defense authorization bill,...Tags: Defense, Weaponry, Robert Gates, Dennis J. Kucinich, Dick Armey
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