Tag: washington
member name: Devin Barber
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June 14, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
It's a word that gets overused a lot these days I think. But 'hero' was the best word I could think of when it comes to describing how I felt about Tim Russert. I looked the word up in Merriam-Webster's . . .
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February 19, 2009 08:30 PM EST --
It was like a scene from the old movie Network. You know, where the TV news guys says "I'm mad as hell and I'm not taking it anymore." Well, I think anyone who saw Santelli's . . .
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February 23, 2009 02:43 PM EST --
One of the components of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is to assist the States with the ever increasing burden of paying unemployment benefits to the ever increasing ranks of the . . .
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October 22, 2009 12:22 PM EDT --
The economy has dominated the news and sparked some intense political debate of late. An issue that has come to the forefront of that debate is regarding how or if Wall Street should be regulated. . . .
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November 02, 2009 02:11 PM EST --
An obscure special congressional election in the 23 rd district of New York State made national news this last week. A traditionally conservative district Republican Dierdre Scozzafava was expected . . .
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September 04, 2007 01:46 PM EDT --
As the Republican Party conducted a virtual firing squad style expulsion of Idaho Senator Larry Craig from their ranks for his indiscretions, I was reminded of a line from the 1998 movie Lost in Space . . .
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September 10, 2007 01:13 PM EDT --
It was a pristinely beautiful day in America on September 11, 2001. Living in the State of Washington I was just getting my morning started when my brother knocked on the bathroom door and yelled “you . . .
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June 18, 2009 01:50 PM EDT --
Apparently the Republicans in Washington have decided to abandon the "just say no" approach and this past week trotted out what they call their proposal to fix the health care crisis. Albeit you'd . . .
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August 10, 2009 01:32 PM EDT --
Lately we’ve been seeing a very disturbing development in American politics. Opponents of the effort to reform health care have adopted the tactic of disrupting and destroying any chance of meaningful . . .
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August 11, 2009 04:24 PM EDT --
This morning I witnessed a spectacle that made me feel embarrassed to be an American. Sen. Arlen Specter (D) Pa. was hosting a town hall meeting to discuss health care reform. And instead of a civil . . .
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September 29, 2009 01:21 PM EDT --
Anyone who hasn’t spent the last couple of years on Mars knows how bad a situation our economy is in. And there has been no shortage of discussions about how we got here. Most of the talk is . . .
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October 13, 2009 01:17 PM EDT --
The America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) trade group issued a report over the weekend claiming that the Baucus Bill will cause health care costs to rise faster than if no legislation is passed . . .
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October 28, 2009 12:40 PM EDT --
The American people have ponied up an ocean of cash to bail out some of biggest corporations and financial institutions that exist in our country. And what have they done with it? Exactly what you’d . . .
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March 28, 2008 03:36 PM EDT --
It's true gang, I'm going to Toronto April 11th 2008 to compete in the 2008 Yuk Yuk's Great Canadian Laugh Off. It's a huge deal too. This is the same competition that launched the careers . . .
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February 23, 2009 07:58 PM EST --
President Barack Obama has chosen Gary Locke to be his Secretary of Commerce. Locke is Obama's third choice after Governor Bill Richardson had to drop out because of a federal investigation into . . .
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March 09, 2009 12:51 PM EDT --
It would be hard to find anyone who watches TV that hasn't experienced the ear splitting sound level of some commercials. Just yesterday I was watching a rerun of one of the Harry Potter movies . . .
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August 16, 2007 06:10 PM EDT --
While serving as the Deputy Assistant to President Ford, Dick Cheney wrote a memo to Donald Rumsfeld. In that memo Cheney suggested they use the Justice Department to exact retribution for an article published . . .
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September 06, 2007 01:50 PM EDT --
How many times have you been watching the evening news about some corporation laying off hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of workers? Usually the reporter goes on about what the corporation . . .
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October 04, 2007 07:33 PM EDT --
One of the most common responses I’ve seen from Republicans any time a Democrat calls for government action is that it amounts to socialism. And there is no mystery as to why they do this. The word . . .
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November 19, 2007 06:38 PM EST --
It would be extremely difficult to find any reasonable political commentator that would disagree that the divide between the Republican and Democratic Parties has never been wider than it is today. And . . .
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