Congressional Democrats, to avert a clash with the National Rifle Association, have crafted a blatantly unfair amendment to an already cynical and probably unconstitutional bill regulating political discourse. The amendment, crafted by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., exempts a handful of the most powerful lobbies -- including the NRA -- from proposed burdensome disclosure requirements.
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There was one particularly striking moment in President Obama's widely panned Oval Office speech on the Gulf oil disaster. About midway through his talk, Obama acknowledged that he had approved new offshore drilling a few weeks before the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion on April 20. But Obama said he had done so only "under the assurance that it would be absolutely safe."
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Democrats have found that 16 months is a political eternity.
It was just that long ago that President Obama gave his first address to a joint session of Congress to thunderous, often bipartisan, cheers.
Obama's speech, which laid out a jaw-dropping agenda for his first year in office, is also memorable for the awfulness of the Republican response to it.
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"Government in New York is too big, ineffective and expensive," the candidate's website proclaims. "We must get our State's fiscal house in order by immediately imposing a cap on state spending and freezing salaries of state public employees as part of a one-year emergency financial plan, committing to no increase in personal or corporate income taxes of sales taxes and imposing a local property tax cap."
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Examiner Staff Writer
06/15/10 12:00 AM
The Minerals Management Service, which is charged with regulating offshore oil drilling, was a deeply troubled agency when Barack Obama inherited it from George W. Bush. Top MMS officials had been caught drinking, doing drugs and even having sex with oil-industry contacts. More prosaically, they accepted gifts from industry representatives and did favors for them.
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Harry Reid is just looking for a little credit.
In the kickoff for Reid's campaign for a fifth term representing Nevada, the Senate majority leader limbered up with a demonstration of his political clout.
The theme of the campaign launch has been "No one can do more," and is intended to remind Nevada voters how lucky they are to have Reid.
In a year when incumbency is a toxic trait, Reid is emphasizing his insider status.
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How bad a defeat did labor unions suffer when Sen. Blanche Lincoln defeated their candidate and won the Arkansas Democratic runoff last week? That's like asking how Custer fared at Little Big Horn.
Like Custer, the unions bet heavily, putting something like $10 million into Arkansas to support Lincoln's challenger, Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, since he started his campaign in early March. And they did so for good reason.
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Wal-Mart gets grief from unions, activists, journalists, and politicians for using market clout to get lower prices from suppliers and employees. So Wal-Mart has changed its ways. Now it uses big government to get lower prices from debit card companies.
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Buried deep inside a federal newsletter on March 16 was something called a "notice of solicitation of comments" from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the Department of Labor.
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President Obama is caught in the wickedest of political binds: the hypocrisy trap.
Obama says he's sick and tired of the Washington blame game, but still can't resist doling out piles of blame himself.
His compulsive, reflexive finger-pointing at Republicans, George W. Bush and vague villains on the right is not only unbecoming, it also reinforces the gathering public verdict that Obama is a weakling.
Victims do not make good leaders.
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