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Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 9th, 2010 5:36 am by HL

GOP starting to resent Bachmann bid
Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) campaign for a leadership spot in the new Congress seems to be floundering as establishment Republicans close ranks around her opponent.

White House reiterates support for repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
The Obama administration reiterated its support Monday for repealing the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” law and policy as Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) worked to strip language repealing the ban from the annual defense authorization bill.

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Jim Webb: Why Reagan Democrats Still Matter

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 9th, 2010 5:31 am by HL

Jim Webb: Why Reagan Democrats Still Matter
David Paul Kuhn, RCP
Jim Webb went to the White House last September. The Virginia senator was meeting with the president to discuss Guantanamo detainees. The conversation soon shifted to healthcare. “I told him this was going to be a disaster,” Webb recalls. “The president believed it was all going to work out.”Democratic leaders broadly believed it was all going to work out. The stimulus, healthcare, cap and trade. Americans were to come around to the left side. Receive news alertsWe're talking about why voters didn't come around. Webb is weighing my report the morning after the…

It’s the Right Move for Pelosi to Stay as Leader

Welcome to Obama’s Worst Week Yet
Michael Goodwin, New York Post
He took a “shellacking,” a 2012 poll shows him trailing two Republicans, and losing candidates in his own party are griping about his “tone deaf” leadership.And the Mad Hatter, Nancy Pelosi, refuses to exit quietly. Welcome to Barack Obama's worst week in the Oval Office.It started with Halloween and ended with Obama exposed as a diminished and damaged president. Merely listing his problems doesn't do justice to his predicament.