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John Kerry's second act
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, named by President Obama to be his next secretary of state, could have been a character out of F. Scott Fitzgerald: a Yale man, tall, handsome, aristocratic, the son of a foreign service officer, married...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Al Gore, George W. Bush, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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DeMint: A Senate loss or gain?
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- 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...Tags: Scott P. Brown, Joe Biden, Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint, American Enterprise Institute
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Time to end the politics of class warfare
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- One outgrowth of President Obama's re-election, based on my mailbag of reader gripes, has been an intensification of "class warfare" in American politics: the notion of the haves against the have-nots, rephrased more recently as the makers...Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Mitt Romney, Joe Biden, Freedom of the Press, Republican Party
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Not so merry Christmas for Congress, president
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Such is the state of American politics that the president and members of Congress fled home for Christmas Day as an brief escape from stalemate, rather than the customarily joyous return to their happy family hearths. President Obama...Tags: Joe Biden, Interior Policy, Religious Festivals, Santa Claus (fictional character), Wayne LaPierre
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Boehner's gamble
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In the oft-repeated threat of taking the country over a "fiscal cliff" by failing to reach a compromise on deep debt reduction, both parties in Congress have had to be concerned about public opinion as well as the dollar signs involved. If...Tags: Joe Biden, Republican Party, Plan B (drug), Parties and Movements, Elections
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Obama's own cliff
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As official Washington nervously ponders the approaching fiscal cliff and the potential economic chaos it entails, President Obama faces a precipice of his own in the challenge of making use of his re-election victory. Unless he emerges...Tags: Joe Biden, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Elections, Barack Obama
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News and social media amok
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In the Newtown massacre, as in all such tragic events in a free and open society, both the news and social media went all-out to provide the fullest coverage of what happened and why. The latter is not yet fully known. In too many instances,...Tags: Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Joe Biden, Radio, Social Media
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The Party of No
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As President Obama and Republicans in Congress approach the much-feared fiscal cliff of automatic deep budget cuts by year's end, his re-election victory may be his best trump card to get new revenue and avoid calamitous hemorrhaging to...Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, George H.W. Bush, Joe Biden, Lamar Alexander, Republican Party
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Ascendant Hillary
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON--In the cease-fire struck between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got second billing to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's role as the prime go-between, and rightly so. But her highly visible hand-...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Mahmoud Abbas
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The decline of moderate Republicanism
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Sometimes it takes the passing from the scene of a strong yet reasonable and accommodating voice to show how valuable and in short supply that commodity is in today's political discourse. Such was the circumstance with the news last week...Tags: Social Sciences, Ronald Reagan, Joe Biden, Culture, Republican Party
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Romney's own gift
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney, who made quite a splash with his post-election allegation that President Obama beat him by bribing voters with "gifts" of federal largesse, himself gave a gift to both the opposition and his own party by saying so. Apparently...Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Joe Biden, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama
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Romney self-destructs again
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON--Defeated presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who helped do himself in with his closed-door characterization of nearly half of all Americans as content to live off federal handouts, wasted no time doubling down on the theory. He did so in a...Tags: Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Republican Party, Republican Governors Association, Parties and Movements
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