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From the President, Some Red Meat for a Conservative Bastion
March 10, 2010It was a mixed week at best for President Obama. Democrats hammered him for even the meager cuts he proposed to their pet programs in his $3.4 trillion spending plan, vowing to reinstate every dime. Republicans hammered him for making such, well, meager cuts.
In the Loop: Need an Office? Norm Coleman's Is Available.
March 10, 2010A passerby recently snapped a shot of Norm Coleman's office in St. Paul, Minn., which, it seems, is on the market. A few days ago, Coleman's name was removed from the door, though the Senate office designation remained.
In the Loop: Specter Once Sang a Different Tune on Party-Switching
March 10, 2010 Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), had a pretty good sense of the trauma he was inflicting on his party and his Republican colleagues when he defected last week. He's felt their pain, so to speak, at least judging from his comments on the Senate floor back in 2001, when Sen. Jim Jeffords left the GOP and handed the Democrats control of the Senate.
In the Loop: The Intelligence Agency Where the Logo's the Thing
March 10, 2010Seems Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair and CIA Director Leon Panetta haven't been seeing eye to eye of late on a number of minor matters -- such as who's in charge of the intelligence community.
In the Loop: Gov. Sanford Gets Guidance From a Biblical Source
March 10, 2010 A stunningly ungrateful media continued pounding on ruined South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) over the weekend, displaying not a whit of appreciation for his giving them a great story of self-delusion and political collapse. The churlish press went into overdrive Friday in mocking Sanford when he continued apologizing, this time to his Cabinet, and he then compared his adultery and lying to King David's waywardness in the Bible.
In the Loop: Republicans' Favorite Mark Sanford Jokes
March 10, 2010The extraordinary Mark Sanford saga has produced a never-ending stream of excellent fodder for late-night talk show hosts, political quipsters and the like. Democrats, naturally, have been having the most fun, but even some Republican strategists have seen the bizarre ironies surrounding Sanford's political demise.
In the Loop: Gorbachev Sings!
March 10, 2010Step aside, Paul McCartney. Move over, Alicia Keys. And The Jonas who? The latest megastar on the music scene -- and surely the only one who gets $165,000 (per CD!) -- is Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union.
In the Loop: Guess the Vote on Sotomayor
March 10, 2010Let's face it: Barring some sensational disclosures, maybe a couple of felonies, there was never going to be much of a Senate battle over the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
In the Loop: Winners of the 'Name That Flu' Contest
March 10, 2010 Just when you thought the swine flu was behind us, the World Health Organization is saying it's a pandemic -- and concern is building that it could return during flu season this fall with a more powerful wallop. With that in mind, here are the winners of the In the Loop Name That Flu contest, aimed at finding a moniker catchier than H1N1, neutral on Mexico and fair to America's pork producers.
In the Loop: Bill Clinton's ÃÂOh, Hell' Moment in Buenos Aires
March 10, 2010Back when President Obama was considering Hillary Rodham Clinton for secretary of state, there were questions raised as to how to handle potential conflicts that might arise with former president Bill Clinton's dealings overseas for the nonprofit Clinton Global Initiative.
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