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Palin: McCain has 'seen the light'
The Swampby Mike Memoli Jim Oliphant and I wrote in the Tribune papers today about how Tuesday's results show how the tea party movement continues to confound expectations just as the political establishment gets ready to write them off. But the......Tags: Arizona, John McCain, Robert Bennett, Alaska, Sarah Palin
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Specter's switch: 'Extremes taking over'
The Swampby Mark Silva "I found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy,'' Sen. Arlen Specter said at a Capitol news conference today after announcing his intention to become a Democrat again after more than 40 years, suggesting that his......Tags: Parliament, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Upper House, National Government, Primaries
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Specter switches: GOP 'far to the right'
The Swamp(This will be the second party-switch for Specter, who became a Republican in 1965, when he was running for district attorney in Philadelphia. See the 2001 C-SPAN interview above.) by Mark Silva, with Christi Parsons and James Oliphant, updated......Tags: Joe Biden, Joe Clark, Heads of State, National Government, Local Elections
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White House: Health-care 95 pct finished
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama wanted an overhaul of the nation's health-care system by the end of the old year. He didn't get that. But he's close -- very close, the way the White House wants to frame the......Tags: Health, Medical Services, Insurance, National Government, Philosophy
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Obama assembling security team today
The Swampby Mark Silva Much was made of the war councils which President Barack Obama assembled in the months leading to the announcement of a strategy for a new way forward in Afghanistan. The president made a public address with his......Tags: National Security, Justice System, John Brennan, Central Intelligence Agency, National Government
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Obama, Biden and Specter: Together
The Swampby Mark Silva Look who's coming to the White House: Sen. Arlen Specter, the longtime Republican (and former Democrat) from Pennsylvania switching party affiliation and probably sealing his old-and-new party's hold on the Senate's agenda for at least the...Tags: Parliament, Delaware, Joe Biden, Health, Medical Services
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Leahy: Cheney 'can go on the talk shows'
The Swampby Mark Silva Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, holding out for a bipartisan commission investigation of the authorization of harsh interrogation tactics know widely known as "torture,'' says he knows people are saying it's "time to turn the page.'...Tags: CBS Corp., Government, Vermont, Patrick Leahy, Barack Obama
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Obama: 'I have a gift'
The Swampby Mark Silva As a senator, Barack Obama once said: ''I have a gift.'' So says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of the junior senator from Illinois who did not serve as senator from Illinois very long before becoming president.......Tags: Illinois, Government, Nevada, George W. Bush, Barack Obama
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Reid's Obama apology: Post-racial land?
The Swampby Mark Silva, on Saturday, updated noon EST Sunday We suppose it's sadly inevitable, in the land that is not quite post-racial America, that we're learning, in retrospect, about how some of the white powers of the nation viewed the......Tags: Local Elections, National Government, Illinois, Cook County, Government
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Harry Reid: Healthcare reform 'this year'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated "Make no mistake,'' Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid writes in a letter today to Senate Republicaan Leader Mitch McConnell, "we are determined to reform health care this year.... "The health of our citizens and our......Tags: Government, Democratic Party, Health, Medical Services, Government Health Care
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Specter: Seniority stripped
The SwampBy Rebecca Cole Perhaps Sen. Arlen Specter isn't as "entitled" as he thinks he is. Just one week after Specter jumped the sinking ship that is the GOP for the relative warmth of the Democratic side of the aisle, the......Tags: Government, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Pennsylvania, National Government
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Obama: Harry Reid 'right side of history'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who quickly accepted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's apology for words which Reid used during the 2008 presidential campaign, says he can overlook a few "inartful words'' from a party leader "on the right......Tags: CBS Corp., Nevada, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., History
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