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Obama plays his high cards
As President Barack Obama nears the end of his first term, has he finally found an inner LBJ to channel? His recent words and actions suggest he has turned a corner from his earlier wishful thinking about playing nice with obstruction-minded Republicans...
Tags: Elections, U.S. House of Representatives, Mitt Romney, Fiscal Cliff, U.S. Senate
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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: Elections, Fiscal Cliff, Lamar Alexander, Republican Party, Health Insurance
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Fine words, delayed action
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- President Obama, in his poignant remarks in Newtown, Conn., to the grieving parents and friends of the 20 little boys and girls and six adults slaughtered in the grade-school massacre, pledged to use "whatever power this office holds" to...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Dianne Feinstein
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End of the Susan Rice saga
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- 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 Obama's plate as he heads into his...Tags: Elections, Scott P. Brown, John Kerry, United Nations, U.S. Department of State
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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: Elections, Scott P. Brown, American Enterprise Institute, Marco Rubio, Olympia J. Snowe
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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: Elections, Mitt Romney, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party, Joe Biden
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The other Washington frets over a physical cliff
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- While official Washington remains all atwitter about going over the fiscal cliff, unofficial Washington is all atwitter over a physical cliff. Will an injured RG3 be able to play against the Cleveland Browns next Sunday and keep the...Tags: Kai Forbath, New York Giants, National Football Conference, Philadelphia Eagles, Robert Griffin III
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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: Elections, Mitt Romney, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party, Democratic 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: Elections, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
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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: Elections, Literature, Mitt Romney, Arts and Culture, Social Sciences
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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: Elections, Mitt Romney, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party, Democratic Party
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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: Elections, Government, Mitt Romney, Regional Authority, Richard Nixon
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