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By Ben Pershing Liberals spent a good portion of the health-care debate complaining that President Obama was insufficiently committed to including the public option in a reform bill, accusing him of sacrificing a cause that was important to them for the sake of political expediency...
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By Michael D. Shear President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will make a somber trip to Texas Tuesday to attend the memorial service for victims of the Fort Hood rampage of Army Major Nidal M. Hasan...
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Take a moment to test yourself with some political trivia. Here's a sample question from today's Political Stump quiz: Former House Republican leader Richard K. Armey believes which coalition of people will help form the future of the Republican party...
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By Ben Pershing Believe it or not, that was the easy part. Proponents of health-care reform got their chance to take a brief breath and celebrate Sunday, after a sweeping bill passed the House Saturday night. Now it's on to the next, likely much harder step...
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By John Amick Today on the Sunday talk shows: CNN: STATE OF THE UNION - Casey calls for more attention to stresses on military General George William Casey Jr., chief of staff of the United States Army, said Sunday the Army is conducting a thorough investigation into the mass shooting at Fort Hood...
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By Anne E Kornblut President Obama extended his condolences to families of the Fort Hood victims in his weekly address Saturday -- deploring, on a third day of grieving, that a tragedy of that kind occurred in a place "where our soldiers ought to feel most safe." "It is an act of violence that...
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By Scott Butterworth President Obama began his weekly Internet and radio address on Saturday with these words: "This past Thursday, on a clear Texas afternoon, an Army psychiatrist walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center, and began shooting his fellow soldiers." Did the president,...
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By Ben Pershing It's the morning after the morning after, and already the conventional wisdom about Tuesday's elections has begun to shift. The initial reaction -- Republicans had a great day -- has shifted to this: Republicans had a great day, but both parties should watch their backs...
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Wearing a tradition headdress, Marcus Levings, chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes, gestured as he asked President Obama during the White House Tribal Nations Conference, held at the Interior Department in Washington...
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By Scott Wilson President Obama said Thursday he is "extraordinarily pleased and grateful" for the AARP and American Medical Association endorsements of the health care reform legislation moving through the House of Representatives...
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By Ben Pershing When reporters look for patterns worthy of coverage, they usually follow a rule -- three makes a trend. Three or more similar examples are enough to merit a story...
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By Michael D. Shear As they woke up this morning on the one-year anniversary of President Obama's historic election, senior West Wing aides proclaimed themselves largely unconcerned about what last night's Democratic losses might portend for their boss or his agenda...
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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Updated 1:09 p.m. By Perry Bacon Jr. and Garance Franke-Ruta The chairman of the Republican National Committee took a victory lap Wednesday morning. "Assume the Heisman position. Yeah baby...
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By Ben Pershing The polls are open this morning in upstate New York, New Jersey, Virginia and a handful of other regions, and while electoral predictions are all over the map, the most common sentiment is that this will be a good day for the red column and a bad one for blue...