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The Senate is set to vote Saturday night, right before the holiday, on a motion to proceed on its latest health care government take-over bill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pushing for yet another weekend vote (commonplace now for the party of transparency) because he knows that the American people will be none too happy about the Democrats proposal the longer they have to look it over. A vote against the Democrats motion will help...
- AUDIO: Sarah Palin's Full Interview On Rush Limbaugh (freerepublic.com)
- Pondexter leads No. 14 Huskies (newsvine.com)
Publisher HarperCollins says the first-day sales for Sarah Palin’s new memoir are among the best ever for a nonfiction book.
The publisher reports that Palin’s book, Going Rogue: An American Life, sold 300,000 copies its first day out, says the Associated Press. Former President Bill Clinton’s My Life sold 400,000 copies the day it was released in 2004, and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History moved 200,000 copies one year earlier.
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- Hillary Clinton: International community expects results from ... (search.msn.com)
No one felt very good about Thursday's inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's second term. The White House, recognizing the necessity of a close ally in Kabul but the need for our complicated relationship with Karzai to change, is hitting reset. The Washington Post's Rajiv
Chandrasekaran explains our "softer approach" to be led by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:
[T]op diplomats and generals are abandoning for now their get-tough...
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- Obama vows Afghan exit; battered Karzai to take oath (freerepublic.com)
- Afghanistana s Karzai readies to take oath (topix.com)
- Clinton: Afghanistan's Karzai 'Must Do Better' for U.S. Backing (my.abcnews.go.com)
On November 20, MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough uncritically repeated Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) claim that "if you look at the campaign last year, the presidential, you can't find a mention of public option. It was added after the election as a part of what we normally consider health insurance reform." In fact, both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proposed a public health insurance plan during...
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Yep, I did a double take too.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has tapped a former top aide of his predecessor George W. Bush to a key post on a board overseeing government-sponsored international broadcasting.
Dana Perino, the first Republican woman to serve as White House press secretary, was appointed late Wednesday to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).
Created in 1994, the BBG oversees all of the US government's non-military...
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Exactly how many Bush administration tell-alls will it take before everything's been told?Following in the footsteps of former press secretary Scott McClellan, Vice President Dick Cheney, first lady Laura Bush and President George W. Bush himself, top White House aide...
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- Karl Rove memoir coming in March (kentucky.com)
- Karl Rove Memoir Coming in March 2010 (mediabistro.com)
Conservative Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, who is emerging as a top contender for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, is gaining some attention this week for his comments in defense of President Obama. As first reported on the Huffington Post, Huckabee said some of the recent criticisms of Obama have been unfair and even "shameful." Huckabee made the comments to the Hudson Union Society. "When he [Barack Obama] was at Dover...
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- Sarah Palin to Rush Limbaugh: ‘Are we warming or are we cooling?’ (thinkprogress.org)
- Sarah Palin'S Interview With Rush Limbaugh (freerepublic.com)
Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity have linked a task force's recommendation that fewer women younger than 50 receive regular mammograms to the widely debunked smear that Democratic health reform bills include "death panels." Right-wing media figures have repeatedly raised the specter of these purported panels in their discussions of health care; in this case, their fearmongering is undermined by the fact that the recommendations are...
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BBC NewsUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in KabulPeople's Daily OnlineUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid unannounced visit to Afghanistan's capital Kabul on the eve of oath taking ceremony of President Karzai Wednesday ...Clinton Presses Karzai on Eve of InaugurationNew York TimesClinton arrives in Afghanistan on eve of Hamid Karzai's inaugurationLos Angeles TimesClinton: US Will Keep Pushing Afghan Govt ReformNPRBloomberg...
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Naomi Wolf on Monday accused former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin of being part of a "cabal" involving George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove.The feminist author and political consultant made this accusation on CNN's "Larry King Live."Fortunately, former Bush adviser Mary Matalin was there to contest Wolf's absurdities:[T]his is why people think liberals are such fringies. I mean you -- you run around saying that she's such a dope, but you...
From newsbusters.org
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- Al Gore’s Current TV calls Sarah Palin ‘TWILF’ (thaindian.com)
- Al Gore's Current TV Calls Sarah Palin a 'Gun-Ho' and a 'TWILF' (freerepublic.com)
- Al Gore's Current TV Calls Sarah Palin A 'Gun-Ho' (newsbusters.org)





