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The facts about the fact checkers

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Ben Smith - Nov. 02 (Opinion) - Mostly true: Roughly half the political universe loves each item churned out by the booming industry of political factchecking. The other half despises it. It just depends whose pants are adjudged to be on fire any given day.

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Fact checking a claim on tax breaks

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Abby Phillip - Jul. 01 (Research) - President Obama used oil barons and corporate jet owners to anchor his opposition to Republicans' demands on taxes in his press conference on Wednesday. His indictment against corporate jet owners in particular was repeated so often, six times, that it certainly rankled Republicans who saw it as a clear case of class warfare.

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Obama administration taps Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Dan Berman - Jun. 23 (News Report) - The Obama administration will release 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to offset oil supply disruptions in the Middle East, the Energy Department announced Thursday morning.

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Osama bin Laden had cash, was ready to flee

Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Jonathan Allen - May. 04 (News Report) - Osama bin Laden had cash totaling 500 Euros and two telephone numbers sewn into his clothing when he was killed — sure signs that he was prepared to flee his compound at a moment’s notice — top U.S. intelligence officials told members of Congress at a classified briefing in the Capitol Tuesday. A White House spokesman said he would not comment on the matter.

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Osama bin Laden raid yields trove of computer data

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Mike Allen - May. 03 (News) - The assault force of Navy SEALs snatched a trove of computer drives and disks during their weekend raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, yielding what a U.S. official called “the mother lode of intelligence.”

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White House modifies Osama bin Laden account

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Josh Gerstein - May. 03 (News) - The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with U.S. forces.

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Donald Trump drops F-bombs on Las Vegas crowd

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Maggie Haberman - Apr. 29 (News) - "Our leaders are stupid, they are stupid people," he said to the crowd of about 1,000 people at the reception at the Treasure Island casino along the Las Vegas Strip, sponsored by the Clark County GOP and three women's groups. "It's just very, very sad."

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New Democratic money group to take on Republicans

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Jeanne Cummings - Apr. 29 (News Report) - Democrats with ties to the Obama White House on Friday are launching a two-pronged fundraising effort aimed at countering deep-pocketed GOP groups in 2012 — and adopting some of the same policies on unlimited, secret donations that President Barack Obama himself has long opposed, the organizers tell POLITICO.

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No deal on raising debt ceiling

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Jake Sherman, Jonathan Allen - Apr. 22 (News) - One day after being named to a presidential task force to negotiate deficit reduction, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor fired off a stark warning to Democrats that the GOP “will not grant their request for a debt limit increase” without major spending cuts or budget process reforms

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Barack Obama reelect’s first job: Reconnect

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Mike Allen - Apr. 15 (News Report) - President Barack Obama’s fledgling reelection campaign is building a volunteer network with the audacious goal of contacting every single person who voted for him in 2008, as part of a reinvented voter outreach that will be as focused on smart phones in 2012 as it was on text messages last time.

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'Long dance' that ended in a deal to avoid a government shutdown

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Glenn Thrush, Jonathan Allen - Apr. 09 (News Analysis) - House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) had spent more than an hour meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, inching toward a deal to avert a shutdown, but he kept insisting that it include a prohibition against federal funding for Planned Parenthood. That was a nonstarter for Obama. As the meeting was breaking up, Vice President Joe Biden told the speaker, in no uncertain terms, that his demand was unacceptable. If that became the deal breaker, Biden said, he would “take it to the American people,” who would presumably punish the GOP for shutting down the government over an ideological issue. “They were faced with a choice — they would either have to give in or shut down the government,” said a senior administration official, describing how the negotiations went from there. In the end, Boehner agreed to a package of $38.5 billion in cuts, a significant victory for a man who said his goal was to extract as much as possible from the federal budget. He also won limited victories on a handful of policy riders attached to the bill. But Boehner was forced to abandon some major demands, including Planned Parenthood, restrictions on the Environmental Protection Agency and efforts to restrict Obama’s health reform bill. Administration officials cast the deal as proof Obama and Boehner can forge a longer-lasting relationship to negotiate the perils of divided government, but it was a rough week punctuated by several near deals, a few blow-ups and a resolution that came 90 minutes before the government shuttered.

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GOP's price to delay shutdown? $12B

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By David Rogers - Apr. 05 (News Report) - President Barack Obama called top lawmakers to the White House for a meeting Tuesday, even as House Republicans edged closer to a real government shutdown Friday if the GOP’s demands for domestic spending cuts are not immediately met.

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President Obama launches reelection campaign

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Jennifer Epstein, Glenn Thrush - Apr. 04 (News) - President Barack Obama launched his 2012 reelection campaign on Monday morning with a video testimonial from voters posted on his website and an email to supporters, echoing his innovative and oft-copied 2008 kickoff.

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Govs face budget blowback

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:06:47 -0700

The Politico - By Alexander Burns - Mar. 28 (News Analysis) - Almost every governor who’s tried to deliver a take-your-medicine message has paid a price. And widespread polling data suggests a chasm between what Americans say they want and the price they’re prepared to pay to get there.

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Unsustainable budget threatens nation

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Martin N. Baily, Martin S. Feldstein, R. Glenn Hubbard, Edward P. Lazear, N. Gregory Mankiw, Christina D. Romer, Harvey S. Rosen, Charles L. Schultze, Laura D. Tyson, Murray L. Weidenbaum - Mar. 24 (Opinion) - Politico - Opinion: The Bowles-Simpson report must be the start of the legislative process on the deficit.

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GOP reality check: Obama looking tougher to beat in 2012

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Jonathan Martin - Feb. 28 (News) - Just four months after posting historic election gains, Republicans are experiencing a reality check about 2012: President Barack Obama is going to be a lot tougher to defeat than he looked late last year.

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GOP learns cost of Palin attacks

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Andy Barr - Feb. 12 (News Report) - For the GOP, the question of how—or whether—to take her on is a delicate one.

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The Kochs fight back

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Kenneth P. Vogel - Feb. 02 (Special Report) - Faced with an avalanche of bad publicity after years of funding conservative causes in relative anonymity, the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers, Charles and David, are fighting back.

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Right's new weapon: Constitutional force

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Ben Smith, Byron Tau - Jan. 29 (News) - The federal lawsuits against last year’s health care overhaul were greeted with eye-rolling and snickers from many conventional legal scholars. Nobody’s laughing now.

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House passes health law repeal

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Carrie Budoff Brown - Jan. 20 (News) - House Republicans passed a bill to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care plan Wednesday, taking their first major step toward rolling back the massive overhaul that has dominated the American political landscape for almost two years.

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Moving past right-wing rhetoric

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Joe Scarborough - Jan. 18 (Opinion) - Now that the right has proved to the world that it was wronged, this would be a good time to prevent the next tragedy from destroying its political momentum. Despite what we eventually learned about the shooter in Tucson, should the right have really been so shocked that many feared a political connection between the heated rhetoric of 2010 and the shooting of Giffords?

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Palin defends 'blood libel' use

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Andy Barr - Jan. 18 (News) - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin insisted Monday that she did know the definition of, and correctly used, the term “blood libel” in recently striking back at her critics.

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RNC vote shows limits of John Boehner's reach

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns - Jan. 15 (News Report) - Members of the Republican National Committee sent a clear message Friday to the rest of the GOP when they elected Reince Priebus as their new chairman: There’s at least one corner of the Republican Party that’s beyond House Speaker John Boehner’s reach. Boehner worked hard to prop up the candidacy of longtime operative Maria Cino, a veteran campaign hand who held senior offices at the RNC and the National Republican Congressional Committee.

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Young intern saved Giffords's life

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Meredith Shiner - Jan. 09 (News Report) - Young intern saved Giffords's lifeA heroic young intern for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords - who had been on the job for only five days - quickly rushed to stop the bleeding moments after she had been shot and his quick thinking is being credited with saving the congresswoman’s life. The Arizona Republic published a profile of 20-year-old University of Arizona junior Daniel Hernandez, revealing he was standing 30 feet from Giffords when shots were fired outside a local Safeway — and that he ran toward them.

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Palin aide: 'Never intended gun sights'

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Ben Smith - Jan. 09 (Interview) - An aide to Sarah Palin said images of crosshairs were never meant to evoke violence, in the Palin camp's first extended comment on yesterday's attack. "We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights," Rebecca Mansour told the talk radio host Tammy Bruce in an interview transcribed by the Alaska Dispatch. There is "nothing irresponsible about our graphic," she said. She called attempts to link Palin to the violence "obscene" and "appalling."

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