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Obama is a lame duck who knows how to quack
It's sometimes said that a lame-duck president is a weakened leader from the first day of his last term. The two-term limit of the 22nd Amendment, imposed by wrathful Republicans in 1951 in response to FDR's breach of the George Washington tradition, is...Tags: Politics, U.S. Department of State, Chuck Hagel, Parties and Movements, U.S. Department of Defense
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Remembering Richard Ben Cramer and his magnum opus
An old reporter often begins his daily routine by turning to the newspaper's obituary page with mild trepidation, fearing another friend has gone to that great newsroom in the sky. So it was this week in reading of the death in Baltimore, at only 62, of...
Tags: White House, Politics, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Republican Party, Authors
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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: Politics, White House, Lobbying, Firearms, Parties and Movements
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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: Politics, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Elections
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State of the union, at home and abroad
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- President Obama's first State of the Union address of his second term, following in the fashion of his second inaugural address, focused on the state of the nation at home: the need for more jobs and a revived middle class, as well as such...Tags: Politics, Leon Panetta, U.S. Military, Martin Dempsey, Hillary Clinton
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Where the buck still stops
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- A rare phenomenon occurred on Capitol Hill the other day when two ranking officials of the Obama administration testified that they had differed with the president they still served over providing arms to the rebels in Syria seeking to...Tags: Anwar al-Awlaki, Manufacturing and Engineering, Leon Panetta, John McCain, Diane Sawyer
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GOP to showcase Rubio as new face of party
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In the Republican Party's developing effort to put on a new face after last November's presidential defeat, the latest gesture is trotting out freshman Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida to deliver the GOP response to President Obama's State of the...Tags: Bobby Jindal, Politics, Mitch McConnell, Health Insurance Cost, Eric Cantor
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Obama's second coming
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The first two weeks of the second Obama administration have signaled that a more assertive president now sits behind the Oval Office desk than the one who settled in there after his first inauguration four years ago. The starry-eyed...Tags: Politics, Lobbying, Chuck Hagel, Parties and Movements, Interior Policy
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Why annihilate the GOP?
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Still reeling from the Republican defeat in the 2012 presidential election, House Speaker John Boehner warned in a Ripon Society speech the other day that the re-elected Obama administration is now out to kill off their party. The embattled...Tags: Politics, Firearms, Lobbying, Gun Control, John McCain
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The resilient Jerry Brown
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- It's said in politics that timing is everything, that success depends on picking the right time to make one's move. When Barack Obama decided in early 2007 to launch a presidential bid as a freshman U.S. senator at age 45, the naysayers...Tags: Government, Politics, Jerry Brown, Elections, Jimmy Carter
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Taking Biden seriously
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- 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...Tags: Politics, Mitch McConnell, Republican Party, John Adams, Fiscal Cliff
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Another second inauguration
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The inauguration of a re-elected president should signify the country's satisfaction with his first term, and anticipation of more of the same leadership that has brought about that second term. Barack Obama embarks on his presidential...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Mitch McConnell, Politics, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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