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#SOTU: CONFUSION AND INDIGNATION

by Assemblyman Chuck DeVore The President’s first State of the Union Address was an appropriate reflection of his first year in office: rhetorically ambitious, pragmatically muddled, ideologically dangerous, and surprisingly naïve for a product of the Chicago political machine. But as with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Amory Blaine, for whom “It was always the becoming he dreamed [...]

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Dem impasse on health bill continues

POLITICO By: CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN & PATRICK O’CONNOR Democrats searching for a way to resuscitate health reform ran into a wall of opposition from party moderates Tuesday — throwing into doubt whether congressional leadership can salvage the sweeping reform plan that once was President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority. Signs were everywhere that Democrats were [...]

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