Category Archives: Politico

D.C. turns on Obama

Posted on May 15th, 2013

    By MIKE ALLEN and JIM VANDEHEI   The town is turning on President Obama – and this is very bad news for this White House. Republicans have waited five years for the moment to put the screws to Obama – and they have one-third of all congressional committees on the case now. Establishment [...]

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Gun Control: Obama’s Biggest Loss

Posted on April 18th, 2013

By GLENN THRUSH and REID J. EPSTEIN   POLITICO Never before had President Barack Obama put the moral force and political muscle of his presidency behind an issue quite this big — and lost quite this badly. The president, shaken to the core by the massacre of 26 innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary School, broke his [...]

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Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral Photo Courtesy Politico

Posted on April 17th, 2013

  The quote below is from POLITICO’S photo gallery of the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain. I agree with the poster that Obama has embarrassed the United States by needlessly snubbing our allies in the U.K. by refusing to honorably represent our country at the funeral of this great leader. [...]

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Pope Francis biography, key facts, life in Latin America and background

Posted on March 14th, 2013

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is the first ever from the Americas, an austere Jesuit intellectual who modernized Argentina’s conservative Catholic church. Known until Wednesday as Jorge Bergoglio, the 76-year-old is known as a humble man who denied himself the luxuries that previous Buenos Aires cardinals enjoyed. He came close to becoming pope last time, [...]

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Obama job approval tumbles

Posted on March 5th, 2013

By DONOVAN SLACK  POLITICO President Obama’s job approval rating took a hit over the weekend, falling to its lowest level in the Gallup three-day average since his reelection. His approval rating was 46 percent between Feb 29 and March 2, down from 53 percent a week earlier. The drop comes after Obama and Congress failed [...]

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Jim DeMint: Ted Cruz deserves cheers, not jeers

Posted on February 21st, 2013

    By JIM DEMINT Imagine a new senator who ran a campaign of “no more business as usual.” No more special interest politics, no more backroom deals — and he won. He came to Washington, and he delivered. He didn’t stay quiet, he spoke passionately for what he believed in, and he made it [...]

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Mitt Romney: ‘I’m not going away’

Posted on January 26th, 2013

By ANNA PALMER Mitt Romney’s campaign ended, but he’s not getting out of politics. Romney told top Washington bundlers, donors and senior campaign leadership in a meeting Friday morning that he would help out GOP candidates for governor in 2013, during the upcoming midterm elections and the 2016 presidential race, according to two people who [...]

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Ted Cruz: D.C. is ‘corrupting city’

Posted on January 21st, 2013

By MACKENZIE WEINGER Sen. Ted Cruz on Sunday dubbed Washington a “corrupting city.” “This is a city that is a corrupting city,” the Texas Republican said. “This is a city where there’s a lot of impetus to go along to get along. It’s a lot of why we’re in this mess now.” Cruz told POLITICO’s [...]

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Why they want to go over the cliff

Posted on December 28th, 2012

  By JONATHAN ALLEN   Washington’s Democratic and Republican power brokers have sent the message to the nation that going over the fiscal cliff is a worst-case scenario. But they’re not acting that way, not at all. Instead, many of them have calculated that it’s better to go over the cliff — at least temporarily [...]

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Barack Obama, Mitt Romney both topped $1 billion in 2012

Posted on December 8th, 2012

  By KENNETH P. VOGEL, DAVE LEVINTHAL and TARINI PARTI POLITICO Obama: $1.123 billion vs. Romney: $1.019 billion. That’s the final fundraising tally in the most expensive presidential election ever, according to reports filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission by the rival campaigns and party committees. And that doesn’t include an explosion of late [...]

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