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A stain on the Democratic brand
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- One consequence of presidential nominee Mitt Romney's loss last November was an internal autopsy on the reputation of the Republican Party itself. Questions were raised whether its "brand" had been seriously damaged as excessively...Tags: Jules Witcover, Mitt Romney, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Congress, Taxation
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Dueling dozens
For the past year, left-leaning Tribune columnist Eric Zorn has regularly been trading views on the presidential race with writers from the other side of the political spectrum, looking for trends, points of agreement and areas of divergence. For the last...Tags: Mitt Romney, Minority Groups, The Pentagon, Paul Ryan, Immigration
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The GOP goes under the knife
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In what unfortunately has been labeled an "autopsy" of the Republican defeat last November, surgeons of the party establishment and its most conservative offshoot had their scalpels out during over the last week, carving up the corpse....Tags: Mitt Romney, Jules Witcover, Elections, Reince Priebus, Migration
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Fiscal trench warfare
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As the clock ticks down on the sequester solution to the nation's budget mess, it's looking more and more like a descent into World War I trench warfare. The two partisan sides are dug in, declining to surrender inches of policy and...Tags: Mitt Romney, Government, Jules Witcover, Joe Biden, U.S. Congress
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Leave liberal Hollywood to the liberals
Jonah Goldberg"We need to buy a movie studio." Amid the umpteen conferences, panels, meetings and informal conversations in the wake of the presidential election, this idea has been a near constant among conservatives who feel like the country is slipping through...Tags: Abortion Issue, Mitt Romney, Downton Abbey (tv program), Media Industry, Patrick Goldstein
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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: Mitt Romney, Jules Witcover, U.S. Senate, Joe Biden, Gun Control
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Balanced budget amendment still a terrible idea
Frustrated by the persistence of large deficits and alarmed by the long-term gap between spending and revenue, congressional Republicans are promoting a constitutional amendment to require balanced budgets. Rep. Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican, tells...Tags: Mitt Romney, Public Finance, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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Goldberg: Leave liberal Hollywood to the liberals
"We need to buy a movie studio." Amid the conferences, panels, meetings and informal conversations in the wake of the presidential election, this idea has been a near constant among conservatives who feel like the country is slipping through their...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Abortion Issue, Downton Abbey (tv program), Patrick Goldstein, James Cameron
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In defense of losing
Paul GreenbergThese are the times that try conservatives' souls. A presidential election has been lost by a convincing margin. The winner has taken the result as a mandate, a license to do ... whatever he wants to do. It is the people's will! Laws, regulations,...Tags: Mitt Romney, Entertainment, Barack Obama, Sociology, John McCain
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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: Mitt Romney, Jules Witcover, U.S. Senate, John McCain, Immigration
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Republicans' push to tilt elections will backfire
Imagine if the 2012 elections had turned out this way: President Barack Obama won the popular vote by five million votes and almost 4 percent, taking seven of the eight largest states, as he did, yet the Republican candidate, former Massachusetts governor...Tags: Government, Mitt Romney, Reince Priebus, Haley Barbour, U.S. Congress
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Political Punditry Is Appealing Profession
The Hartford CourantIf you are looking for something to be when you grow up, you might want to consider political punditry. Besides not requiring any manual or mental heavy lifting, the other great thing about political punditry is that there is no accountability. Really,...Tags: Mitt Romney, Clint Eastwood, Rush Limbaugh, Fiscal Cliff, David Axelrod
May 15, 2013
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Nov 2, 2012
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Mar 19, 2013
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Feb 22, 2013
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Feb 20, 2013
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Feb 20, 2013
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Feb 19, 2013
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Feb 19, 2013
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Feb 11, 2013
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Feb 1, 2013
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Jan 29, 2013
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Nov 10, 2012
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