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Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Charlie Crist to visit Palm Beach County
Palm Beach Politics | Sun-Sentinel BlogsPalm Beach County's national political importance will be on display Monday with a visit from U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton on the eve of a campaign stop here by Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Meanwhile on Monday, Gov. Charlie Crist and......Tags: Hillary Clinton, Florida, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Barack Obama, West Palm Beach
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Unions promoting Obama's bill-signing
The Swampby Mark Silva The unions will waste little time with President Barack Obama's signing of the $787-billion economic stimulus bill this afternoon in Denver. Greg Sargent reports at his blog, The Plum Line, that Obama's "allies on the left --......Tags: Labor Legislation, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Government, National Government
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Limbaugh's party of 'No:" Democatic ad
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated with reaction Rush Limbaugh, with the face made for radio, will be the voice of the Republican Party, if Democrats have anything to say about it in their campaign against Republicans balking at President Barack......Tags: Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Government, Republican Party, Parties and Movements
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Rush Limbaugh v. Rahm Emanuel: Failing
The Swampby Mark Silva Rush Limbaugh has said it before, and he said it again: "I want Barack Obama to fail.'' And for this, Democrats have readily anointed him the "voice of the Republican Party.'' Limbaugh basically speaks for the opposition......Tags: Alvaro Uribe, Democratic Party, Philosophy, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama
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Pension probe: The good, the bad and the connected
Spin CycleThree brief points on the expanding pension probe: 1. Steve Rattner, head of the Quadrangle private investment firm, is first and foremost identified in news reports as Obama's chief advisor on the auto industry, which he is. But the......Tags: Bronx (New York City), Disasters and Accidents, Stock Broking, Mutual Funds, Wages and Pensions
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Unions: GOP 'Party of No'
The Swampby Mark Silva Labor unions plan to take the Democratic Party's drumbeat about the Republican Party -- "The Party of No'' -- to the air today. Or cable, anyway. AFSCME and the labor-backed-Americans United will hold a press conference this......Tags: Democratic Party, Satellite and Cable Service, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, CNN (tv network)
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Health-care 'roller derby:' Race is on
The Swampby Noam N. Levey The battle over health care entered a new, more frenzied stage Wednesday, as lawmakers and powerful interest groups jockeyed for advantage now that most believe some form of an overhaul will ultimately be signed into law.......Tags: Government Health Care, State Budgets, Drugs and Medicines, Justice System, Barack Obama
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White House vs FOX News: War in review
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated After a week at "war'' with the FOX News Channel, the White House maintained today that it really isn't too concerned about what FOX says about the administration - and also gave new, high-level......Tags: Labor Legislation, Consumers, Newspapers, Republican Party, News Corp.
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Health-care TV ad wars underway
The Swampby Mark Silva In the roiling mix of political crosswinds that may come to characterize the 2009-2010 elections -- in which a Republican quit one congressional race to campaign for the winning Democrat, and in which the president's party was......Tags: Erik Paulsen, Marion Berry, Barack Obama, Michael N Castle, Republican Party
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Blanche Lincoln: Distance from D.C.
The Swampby Mark Silva "I don't answer to my party,'' Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln says in the debut of her reelection campaign's television advertising. "I answer to Arkansas.'' And so we have it, that sign of an endangered Democrat running against......Tags: Executive Branch, Democratic Party, Arkansas, Blanche Lincoln, AFL-CIO
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Healthcare vote: Political prices to pay
The Swampby Mark Silva Republican leaders have warned that Democrats will face "a price to pay'' in the midterm congressional elections for their votes for healthcare reform today. But that's not the only party warning of a price to pay. An......Tags: Democratic Party, Justice System, AFL-CIO, Hospitals and Clinics, Laws
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State Fires Worker Who Showed Lanza's Body To Her Husband At Morgue
The Hartford CourantConnecticut's chief medical examiner has fired a state employee who let her husband view the body of mass killer Adam Lanza in the morgue two days after the Dec. 14 Newtown school massacre, The Courant has learned. The employee, Jean Henry, was...Tags: Dannel P. Malloy , Labor Legislation, Civil and Public Service, Watertown, Laws
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