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The NRA doesn't deserve my sympathy, or yours
Usually when a senator suffers a big public defeat, he slinks off to lick his wounds. He rarely retwists the arms that didn't bend his way. Colleagues don't like to be seen switching. Were they horribly mistaken the first time? Don't know what they...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Patrick J. Toomey, Sarah Palin, Gun Control, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013)
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Gabrielle Giffords' story a different kind of profile in courage
Gabrielle Giffords received a Profile in Courage award this weekend at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. The award is fitting, though she is displaying a different kind of courage than was celebrated by the late president in his 1957 best-selling...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Mark Kelly, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Interest
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Courage in short supply
WASHINGTON -- The gun bill was going down, but Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who reached a compromise to try to save it, went to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to give it one more try. In an unorthodox tactic, he appealed directly...
Tags: Dean Heller, Crime, Law and Justice, Patrick J. Toomey, Gun Control, Politics
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McManus: Sadder but wiser pols
President Obama took a posse of Republican senators to dinner last week, and this week he's giving Congress the unusual courtesy of no fewer than four presidential visits to Capitol Hill. Can a flurry of presidential schmoozing change Washington from...
Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Budget Control Act of 2011, Tom Coburn, Gun Control, Patrick J. Toomey
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McManus: Fiscal crisis? What crisis?
Here's what is most maddening about the "Perils of Pauline" fiscal crises that President Obama and Congress have led us into during the last year: Both sides have known from the beginning what the final deals would look like, but neither side has been...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Career and Workplace, Health Insurance, Unemployment, Lindsey O. Graham
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The ghosts of Benghazi
WASHINGTON -- We may never know exactly what happened in Benghazi the night Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed, but it's becoming increasingly clear that our response was short of optimum. Even today, there are far more...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Martin Dempsey, Leon Panetta, Rush Limbaugh, Hillary Clinton
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The way forward is not to retreat on the core message
WASHINGTON - They lose and immediately the chorus begins. Republicans must change or die. A rump party of white America, it must adapt to evolving demographics or forever be the minority. The only part of this that is even partially true regards...
Tags: Scott Walker, Government, Bobby Jindal, Executive Branch, Sociology
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The way forward
WASHINGTON -- They lose and immediately the chorus begins. Republicans must change or die. A rump party of white America, it must adapt to evolving demographics or forever be the minority. The only part of this that is even partially true regards...
Tags: Scott Walker, Government, Bobby Jindal, Executive Branch, Sociology
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The initiation of Susan Rice
WASHINGTON -- A variety of insults have been deployed in opposition to Susan Rice's likely nomination for secretary of state: She is not qualified; she's too aggressive; she "misled" the public following the lethal attack on the American consulate in...
Tags: Johnny Carson, U.S. Senate, U.S. Department of State, Lindsey O. Graham, Susan Collins
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October Surprises aren't what they used to be
WASHINGTON -- October Surprises just aren't what they used to be. Carnival barker and Mitt Romney surrogate Donald Trump, R-Absurdity, set the gossip mill churning this week when he declared he would make a "major announcement" about President Obama....
Tags: U.S. Senate, Donald Trump, Bain Capital, LLC, Claire McCaskill, Mitt Romney
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Daum: The GOP's Palin hangover
Ann Romney is on the record: She would like to see a woman as her husband's running mate. And so would any number of Republicans who are concerned about their party's standing with female voters. But for all the excitement that the topic stirs up, don't...
Tags: Jan Brewer, Ann Romney, Government, Hillary Clinton, Olympia J. Snowe
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Mitt Romney on ‘Fox News Sunday’; Bob Woodward on ‘Face the Nation’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe guest list will be more star-studded than usual this Sunday morning. It should be especially fascinating to hear the discussion about whether the White House is threatening reporters. Bob Woodward of The Washington Post has said he was made...
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