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In debt talks, Obama offers Social Security cuts

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Lori Montgomery - Jul. 07 (News Report) - President Obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt-reduction plan that would force Democrats to accept major changes to Social Security and Medicare in exchange for Republican support for fresh tax revenue.

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Obama needs to create jobs, not fight for them

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ezra Klein - Jun. 29 (Opinion) - Let’s agree that what matters isn’t how many jobs you “get caught trying” to create, but how many jobs you actually create. There’s virtually no evidence that if Obama makes more speeches on jobs, his poll numbers will go up or the labor market will improve. There’s lots of evidence that if he passes policies that create more jobs, his poll numbers will go up and the labor market will improve. The question, then, isn’t how Obama can get “caught trying.” It’s how — or whether — he can succeed.

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Scott Powers: How my wait in a closet almost brought down the White Housealmost brought down White House

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Scott Powers - Mar. 29 (News) - I was kidnapped. That was news to me. My paper and I conspired to cover this up, to protect Vice President Joe Biden and his staff from charges they had imprisoned me at a fundraiser last week. That was news to me too.

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Constitutional firestorm over Libya war and Biden's past impeachment words greet returning Obama

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

Los Angeles Times - By Andrew Malcolm - Mar. 24 (Opinion) - The ex-state senator who so famously said the U.S. had no business overthrowing the brutal Saddam Hussein poison gas-spewing regime in Iraq is now into ousting Kadafi based on his broadcast threats to "cleanse" Libya of opponents? But it's OK because the U.N. approves and we won't be a leader long? So how then is it not in alleged American interests to police brutality in, say, Sudan, Yemen, even China, whose president Obama instead recently hosted at a White House state dinner? How about Syria where authorities killed 15 protestors Wednesday. Or what about North Korea's Kim clan starving millions to live high?

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Michael Moore: Let's Pass Some Laws Before the Republicans Head Into Town (after all, that's what they'd do)

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Michael Moore - Nov. 16 - Dear Congressional Democrats: Welcome back to our nation's capital for your one final session of the 111th Congress. Come January, the Republicans will take...

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Time for Dems to slam the GOP hypocrites

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Gene Lyons - Oct. 21 (Opinion) - Obama's GOP antagonists offer empty rhetoric even they don't believe. But does he have the heart to call them out?

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White House 'out of the fetal position'

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Glenn Thrush, Kenneth P. Vogel - Oct. 12 (News) - The White House seems to have settled on what one Democratic operative calls “The Spaghetti Strategy,” a throw-anything-against-the-wall approach to attacking a carefully targeted group of Republican heavies ahead of Nov. 2.

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9/11 politicized by Islam controversies

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - Sep. 11 (News) - They will read the names, of course, the names of every victim who died in the Sept. 11 attacks. The bells will ring. And then that moment of unity will give way to division as activists hoist signs and march, some for and some against a planned mosque two blocks from ground zero. More than 2,000 supporters of the mosque project held a vigil Friday night meant to avoid entangling the mosque controversy and the Sept. 11 observance.

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How Obama Got Rolled by Wall Street

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Michael Hirsh - Aug. 29 (News Analysis) - Barack Obama was “incredulous” at what he was hearing, said one of his top economic advisers. The president had spent his first year in office overseeing the biggest government bailout of the financial industry in American history. Together with Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, he had kept Wall Street afloat on a trillion-dollar tide of taxpayer money.

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Honey, I Shrunk My Approval Ratings

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Karl Rove - Aug. 26 (Opinion) - The White House is having a disastrous 'summer of recovery.'

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America must not neglect Iraq's refugees as US troops withdraw

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Aug. 13 (Opinion) - Even as many US troops head home, we must ramp up our commitment to the 4.5 million Iraqis who’ve been displaced by war. ...

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Israel's efforts to heal US rift marred

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Mar. 28 (Opinion) - Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves the White House following his meeting with US President Barack Obama. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, tried to smooth over a breach in relations with

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Netanyahu's reluctant gift to Palestine

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Hussein Ibish - Mar. 24 (Opinion) - Limiting or freezing settlement construction has been at the heart of all recent peace efforts because the settlements make the borders of a future Palestinian state more difficult to conceptualise, let alone determine, and increase the frequently

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Rupert Cornwell: There's no sign that Obama will punish his ally

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:07:04 -0700

The Independent - Mar. 16 - The fracas over Israel's announcement of 1,600 new homes in disputed East Jerusalem is undoubtedly serious. But it also recalls the old children's ditty of how "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me". The words have flown

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Biden calls for 'viable' Palestinian state

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Rory McCarthy - Mar. 10 (News Report) - The US vice-president, Joe Biden, has said the Palestinians deserve a "viable" independent state with contiguous territory, hoping to reassure them of America's support after Israel announced plans to expand a Jewish neighbourhood on occupied Palestinian land in East Jerusalem

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Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:59:11 -0800

Huffington Post - Mar. 08 - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care -- admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada's single-payer system. The irony,

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Political differences masquerading as philosophical ones

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Ezra Klein - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - "There's a philosophical difference in how we do this," Sen. Tom Coburn said at the Blair House Summit. "It does have to do with the philosophical difference," Rep. Eric Cantor agreed. "There are very deep philosophical differences in how we approach health-care reform," Rep. Marsha Blackburn emphasized. "There really is a difference between us," explained Rep. Paul Ryan. "And it?s basically this. We don?t think the government should be in control of all of this." It's true, of course, that there are some philosophical differences between Democrats and Republicans. But Republicans did something interesting yesterday: They turned a lot of policy differences into questions of first principles. And it's harder to compromise on a first principle. ...

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After Cheney

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By James Traub - Nov. 29 (Special Report) - Foreign-policy sage, sounding board, senatorial arm-twister, troubleshooter: Joe Biden could be the second-most-powerful vice president in history.

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The Generals' Revolt

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:07:22 -0800

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Joe Biden: the worrying rise of Barack Obama’s Mr Wrong

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Toby Harnden - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - On all the big questions, he has been – to put it politely – on the wrong side of history. In 1990, he voted against American forces expelling Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. He voted for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and advocated splitting it into three states along ethnic lines. He opposed the Iraq troop surge of 2007 that pacified the country and rescued the US from the jaws of defeat.

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Pardon The Interruption: CNN Drops Afghanistan Discussion For Serious Breaking News About Rush Limbaugh

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - So, it's half past six or so on a Wednesday evening and I am watching that evening's edition of CNN's Wolf Blitzer and the Chamber of Situations, where my boss (full disclosure: Arianna Huffington is the co-founder of The Huffington Post) is discussing her provocative op-ed, which calls for Vice President Joe Biden to resign if he cannot reconcile his opposition to escalating the war in Afghanistan with an administration decision to proceed with such an escalation.

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Congress has only 22 working days left to reform America's health care system.

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By John Dickerson - Jul. 09 (Opinion) - Like a true Amtrak passenger, Biden is engaging in a little wishful thinking. Yes, health care reform is moving along at a steady pace. But it's not going as fast as it needs to.

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Biden: No More Concessions on Iran

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By George Stephanopoulos - Jul. 05 (Opinion) - Vice President Joe Biden has been pushing privately for a hard line on Iran, and in my exclusive "This Week" interview he hinted at a harder Administration line to come. For now, he told me, President Obama’s offer to meet with Iran over its nuclear program remains “on the table.” While insisting that President Obama is right not to rescind his offer to negotiate with Iran and the other “P-5” nations ( U.S., Britain, France, China and Russia ) plus Germany, Biden rejected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s attempts to condition any negotiations on more US concessions.

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Straight Man

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By Michelle Cottle - Apr. 28 (Opinion) - If Biden speaks the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, what happens should he eventually utter a disastrously inconvenient truth--not a run-of-the-mill gaffe but something more grave and substantive? Will the White House ultimately regret its decision to attach ethical import to the vice president's candid, digressive, unpredictable, and occasionally out-of-control political style?

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Biden’s replacement in the Senate

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

3BlueDudes - Nov. 24 (News Report) - The Hill reports that the replacement for Vice President-elect Joe Biden in the Senate will be Ted Kaufman, a long-time assistant to Senator Biden.

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