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McManus: The GOP's tactical retreat
A well-organized retreat is said to be one of the most difficult military maneuvers: You're under enemy fire, your troops are likely to be demoralized, and you've got to avoid a rout. That why House Republicans' orderly withdrawal last week from an...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Barack Obama, John Boehner, Budgets and Budgeting
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Inauguration 2013: For Mitt Romney, the day wasn't to be
Had things gone his way, Mitt Romney would have raised his right hand Monday and sworn an oath to serve as the nation’s 45th president. Instead, the vanquished Republican nominee spent the day at home in La Jolla, out of sight if not quite out of...
Tags: U.S. Electoral College, Barack Obama, Politics, Mitt Romney, Social Media
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Weekend Talk Shows: Scott Walker; Edward Albee; King Abdullah, II
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 27 - Feb. 2, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SATURDAY Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC The Chris Matthews Show Clinton and Biden 2016 prospects; Inaugural...
Tags: John McCain, Dick Durbin, Abdullah II of Jordan, Stanley A. McChrystal, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
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House approves short-term suspension of debt ceiling
WASHINGTON – House Republicans approved a temporary suspension of the $16.4-trillion ceiling on the nation’s debt Wednesday, allowing the federal government to continue borrowing through spring while Washington shifts to more ambitious...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Republican Party, John Boehner, United States Statutory Debt Limit
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Inauguration 2013: The orderly transition of Jay-Z and Paul Ryan
In the weeks after President Jimmy Carter lost his reelection bid to Ronald Reagan, when I was a young reporter at the Washington Post, I was assigned to cover a luncheon on Capitol Hill honoring Patricia Derian, Carter’s assistant secretary of...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Republican Party, Jay-Z, John Boehner, Crime, Law and Justice
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House GOP lines up debt ceiling vote; White House will not oppose
WASHINGTON – House Republicans appear confident they have the votes to pass a short-term debt ceiling increase as they attempt to dispatch with this fiscal battle to focus on bigger ones ahead. The bill, coming up for a vote Wednesday, would be an...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Republican Party, John Boehner, Budgets and Budgeting
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Paul Ryan's next budget: More of the same -- a lot more
Now that two months have passed since the 2012 election, what does Rep. Paul Ryan think the voters' message was? It wasn't a rejection of the Romney-Ryan platform or of the "Ryan Budget" that would have turned Medicare into a voucher plan, Ryan told...
Tags: Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal, Republican Party, John Boehner, Budgets and Budgeting
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House leaders offer short-term debt increase
This post has been updated, as indicated below.WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – House Republicans announced Friday that they will vote next week to authorize a temporary extension of the debt limit, pushing off a politically unpalatable fight in the hopes of extracting further spending cuts from Democrats in...Tags: U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Credit and Debt, John Boehner, United States Statutory Debt Limit
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Ryan says House open to short-term debt increase
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Rep. Paul Ryan, re-emerging as a leader for House Republicans on the budget, said Thursday that the party was open to a short-term federal debt limit increase to prevent another politically damaging fiscal crisis and to kick-...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Politics, Republican Party, Fiscal Cliff
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House GOP seeks to win by losing on the debt ceiling
In one nimble move, House Republicans on Friday appear to have extricated themselves from a self-made political trap that threatened the U.S. economy -- and their hold on the House. The trap was the hard-line position many House Republicans had taken on...
Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Credit and Debt, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Congress
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Inauguration 2013: Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, deliver big
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticAmid the pomp of Monday’s inaugural ceremonies were a number of visual non-sequiturs, and most of them involved Jay-Z -- at least those not involving the sight of a former American Idol winner up there. There he was, in the same frame as Sen....Tags: Al Franken, Entertainment, Jay-Z, Bill Clinton, Kelly Clarkson
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It's official: Obama, Biden win second term
President Obama was declared the winner of the 2012 presidential election Friday in a special joint session of Congress, finally closing the book on the tumultuous and expensive campaign. Vice President Joe Biden, serving as president of the Senate,...
Tags: Ceremonies, Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Al Gore, U.S. Congress
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