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Health care: 2010 elections start here

With the Senate's 60-39 vote to proceed to debate, after Thanksgiving, on a health-care bill that the president is seeking by year's end, the debate of the 2010 midterm elections has been joined: For the Democrats, in control of the White House and ...

From MARK SILVA, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Senate,  Republican National Committee,  White House

Obama's approval: 49 pct, new Gallup low

President Barack Obama's public approval stood at 69 percent in the days after his inauguration in January, shown above, and reached a new low of 49 percent this week in the Gallup Poll's daily tracking surveys. Public approval of the job that ...

From MARK SILVA, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gallup,  Barack Obama,  Harry Truman,  Jeffrey Jones,  Ronald Reagan

GOP: Growing gov't with health care

As the Senate nears a vote on advancing to debate over health-care, Republicans are holding ground against a bill which they insist will only grow the government and raise taxes. They don't accept the $848-billion price tag that the Congressional ...

From MARK SILVA, The Swamp,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Congressional Budget Office,  U.S. Senate,  Harry Reid,  Mike Crapo

Obama's 'new era of U.S. engagement'

President Barack Obama, returned from a weeklong tour of Asia where he is promoting "a new era of American engagement," says the continent holds promise for Americn exports that can spur new jobs at home. "Asia is a region where we now buy more goods ...

From MARK SILVA, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House

Barack Obama: Home for the holidays

Home, where the hard work is. With stops in 20 nations behind him, said to be the most ambitious international itinerary of any first-year president, Obama faces the closing innings of a domestic policy year in which he insisted upon a sweeping ...

From MARK SILVA, The Swamp,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  Gallup

Obama, Palin: FOX News draws, both

Sarah Palin was box office on FOX News this week - handing Sean Hannity one of his highest-rated shows. Someone else drew a crowd at FOX this week, too: President Barack Obama. While Hannity's audience of more than 4 million viewers with the author ...

From MARK SILVA, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: FOX Broadcasting Company,  Barack Obama,  Sarah Palin,  Sean Hannity,  MSNBC

Palin: 'Idiots... don't learn from history'

"You know what,'' Palin replied, laughing, "when I heard that, though, I thought, good, at a moment like this in history, I'd rather that he be spending his time reading the next fiscal year federal budget. He better really dig into that, and start ...

From MARK SILVA, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mark Levin,  Ivy League,  Newsweek,  U.S. Republican Party

Jobs created: Close enough for gov't?

The White House is pushing back on the alleged "fiction'' of jobs created or saved under the $787-billion federal timulus bill - particularly what it views as the fiction surrounding reports that Recovery.gov, the official online accounting of where ...

From MARK SILVA, The Swamp,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House

Americans should 'rebel:' Hatch on health

The House's health care bill, we were reminded, weighed in at over 20 pounds. The Senate's bill, we're told, is bigger than War and Peace. Both of them also offer health care for millions of Americans uninsured. And Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of ...

From MARK SILVA, The Swamp,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  White House,  Congressional Budget Office,  Barack Obama,  FOX Broadcasting Company

FOX rolls wrong video, heads may roll

FOX has done it again, and this time, once again, FOX says its misplay of the wrong crowd video was another regrettable mistake. Today, FOX News host Gregg Jarrett was talking about Republican Sarah Palin's book tour and the crowd she is drawing at ...

From MARK SILVA, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: FOX Broadcasting Company,  Sarah Palin,  U.S. Republican Party,  Sean Hannity

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