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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: John McCain, Sarah Palin, Robert Bennett, Alaska, Arizona
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TSA: Questions of screening and memory
The Swampby Mark Silva The blocked nominee for chief of the Transportation Security Administration may face more than controversy over the unionization of the nation's airport screeners - he now finds himself explaining his own only recently refreshed memory of...Tags: Susan Collins, Hawaii, White House, Transportation Security Administration, San Diego (San Diego, California)
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GM's Wagoner: Obama demands a price
The Swampby Mark Silva General Motors' troubles may or may not have started when it decided that it could make $10,000 a copy putting leather bucket seats and mobile DVD-players on pickup truck chassis and calling them sport utility vehicles, fleet-mileage......Tags: Heavy Engineering, U.S. Department of the Treasury, General Motors Corp., Vehicles, White House
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Biden touts the smart grid
The Swamp(Vice President Joe Biden speaks to soldiers at Whiteman Air Force base in Missouri today. Photo by Charlie Riedel / AP) by Rebecca Cole Vice President Joe Biden today unveiled details for distributing more than $3.3 billion in stimulus......Tags: Henry Waxman, Joe Biden, Standards, Missouri, Barack Obama
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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: Arlen Specter, Parties and Movements, Connecticut, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Politics
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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: Family, Consumers, White House, Insurance, Medical Services
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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: Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, Central Intelligence Agency, Robert Gates, Illinois
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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: Parties and Movements, White House, Crime, Law and Justice, Joe Biden, Corporate Crime
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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: Arlen Specter, Al Franken, Ronald Reagan, White House, Government Health Care
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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: Patrick Leahy, Barack Obama, September 11, 2001 Attacks, CBS Corp., Dick Cheney
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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: National or Ethnic Minorities, James Taylor, Iowa, Washington (U.S. state), Parties and Movements
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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: George W. Bush, Politics, Barack Obama, Illinois, National Government
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