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Obama pushing for provisional targets in Copenhagen
America Blog 4 days agoIf nothing else, it's a start. He's going to need to keep pushing to continue any momentum that may be started in Copenhagen but looking at the agenda on the home front, this doesn't sound very likely.
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On Afghanistan, "People at the Pentagon are trying to force a certain outcome"
America Blog Nov 09 09The situation in Afghanistan is bad enough without "people at the Pentagon" playing games with Obama.
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Krugman: Obama faces his own Anzio
America Blog Nov 07 09Another great read by Paul Krugman. Obama's cautious approach to the economic crisis may lead the way for Democratic losses in 2010.
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Democrats Dupe Gays to Help Corzine
Gay Patriot Nov 06 09In trying to spin the results of this week’s elections to fit the Democratic/media narrative that Republicans are a dying species, Administration officials dwell on the results in NY-23 as if the White House were indifferent to the races in New Jersey and Virginia.
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LGBT senior, housing issues win attention
Washington Blade National News Oct 30 09
LGBT senior, housing issues win attention Obama administration acts to aid elders, study discrimination By Lou Chibbaro Jr.
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Administration official: Public option proven to lower costs, trigger not so much
America Blog Oct 27 09This is very good. It's the kind of thing administration officials should be saying:
Dr. Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, said that she had "personally been quite persuaded that the public option can be an important source of cost growth containment," during a speech at the Center for American Progress.
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Valerie Jarrett: Obama is "committed to the public option"
America Blog Oct 23 09We wanted some clarity from the White House on the public option -- and we got some.I'll take Valerie Jarrett on the record stating strong support for the public option over anonymous "administration officials" who are leaking tidbits to Politico and CNN claiming Obama is siding with Olympia Snowe.
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Now that the House and Senate are both leaning towards the public option, Obama reportedly wants to stick with Olympia Snowe
America Blog Oct 22 09Let's seriously hope that CNN and Politico are wrong.Earlier tonight, John wrote a post titled, "Major momentum suddenly for the public option, in just the few hours - while Snowe tries to kill the bill.
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Lieberman to hold hearings on Obama's czars
America Blog Oct 19 09Here's the thing. It's not entirely clear if this is a bad thing. If Lieberman is doing this in order to debunk the attacks on Obama's czars, and the hearing is geared towards doing just that, then this could be a good way to finally put that issue to rest.
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Real change in the air for Wall Street reform?
America Blog Oct 17 09Sounds like someone might be running out of patience. It's hard to see how it could have been accepted (if not embraced) for this long but provided change is coming, that would be good progress.
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Is there anything the administration can't live with?
America Blog Oct 15 09As the NYT reports this morning, two senior administration officials say the White House likes Olympia Snowe's "trigger" plan that will basically kill the public option, and ensure that we don't have real competition in health care in this country.
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“I think the administration has put [Olympia Snowe] in the driver’s seat; it’s very disconcerting.”
America Blog Oct 15 09It is very disconcerting. Very. Last night, John wrote a post explaining how President Obama could and should use his power to pass a strong health insurance reform bill out of the Senate.
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Obama to Name Openly Gay Ambassador
Google Gay News / New York Times Oct 07 09
The Associated Press
Obama to Name Openly Gay AmbassadorNew York TimesPresident Obama plans to name an openly gay lawyer to serve as his ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, administration officials said .
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What Is The Difference Between the Washington Post And A Government Press Release?
Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish Oct 06 09Greenwald points to a WaPo piece praising the administration's handing of the Zazi case and plucks out every cited source, in order: Obama aides pointed .
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Dubya: No Medals For Witches
Joe My God Sep 29 09Think Progress reports that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was removed from consideration for receiving a Presidential Medal Of Freedom because Dubya administration officials believed her book "encouraged" the practice of witchcraft.
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US considering "crippling sanctions" for Iran
America Blog Sep 28 09Wash Post:
Amid growing international pressure in advance of highly anticipated talks this week, Iran displayed its defiance of Western threats against its nuclear program by announcing Sunday that it had test-fired at least two short-range missiles.
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In re: NEA Scandal, What Wasn’t Recorded?(At NEA & other agencies)
Gay Patriot Sep 21 09As we bloggers pore over the tape and transcripts showing Obama Administration officials attempting to use the National Endowment for the Arts to further its political ends, I got to wondering how much of this politicking goes on in the various departments and agencies of the federal government that has not been recorded?
I’m betting there is [.
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Obama to NY Governor Paterson: Don't run next year.
America Blog Sep 20 09Apparently, Obama is willing to involve himself in state-level Democratic politics. In New York, the president sent the word to the incumbent Governor, David Paterson, that Paterson shouldn't run in 2010.
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S.C. Rep. Joe Wilson "Meets The Press"
Pams House blend Sep 10 09... right outside his door!
According to Wilson, it was a spontaneous outburst:
The GOP congressman from South Carolina who shouted out during President Obama's health care address to Congress insisted Thursday that his outburst was "spontaneous.
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Is this a wise thing to telegraph publicly?
America Blog Sep 03 09From today's NYT:
By signaling that they would seek to revise existing versions of legislation moving through the House and Senate, administration officials and Democratic leaders in Congress — many of whom had said earlier in the summer that they saw no need to scale back their ambitions — made clear that their political calculations had changed.
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