David Broder
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BRODER: Primary fights can build up candidates
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Last Updated: 5:52 PM 11/19/09 - For Sarah Palin, with her personality and history, to tell Rush Limbaugh that Republicans should welcome primary fights within their own ranks is hardly surprising. As much as it may pain her many critics, she also has a lot of history on her side. (Full Story) |
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BRODER: It’s time for Obama to choose the plan ahead
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Last Updated: 12:01 PM 11/14/09 - The more President Barack Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. But, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose — and he has stretched the internal debate to the breaking point. (Full Story) |
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BRODER: A bill that doesn't pay the bills
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Last Updated: 6:27 PM 11/12/09 - While the House Democrats spent the week congratulating themselves for squeezing out the midnight passage of their version of health care reform, neutral observers were reminding them: You’ve left the job half done. (Full Story) |
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BRODER: Trouble ahead for Democrats?
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Last Updated: 5:20 PM 11/05/09 - A year after Barack Obama’s election stirred broad hopes for change among American voters, persistent high unemployment and the spectacle of continued gridlock in Washington threaten Democratic dominance of the political landscape. Tuesday’s defeats in gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey not only ended a decade or more of Democratic gains in those states but signaled possible trouble ahead in the midterm elections at the national level. (Full Story) |
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BRODER: Opting out a dangerous compromise
Last Updated: 7:30 PM 10/29/09 - There is an air of desperate improvisation to Sen. Harry Reid’s scheme to pass a “public option” as part of health care reform, but at the same time provide an easy exemption for any state that objects to it. The warning flags ought to be flying for anyone who can count to three — let alone 60. (Full Story) |
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BRODER: Deficit reduction plans swirl despite the massive red ink
Last Updated: 4:25 PM 10/21/09 - Within the next few weeks, probably as soon as the votes on health care reform have been taken, the Senate faces the painful duty of once again raising the statutory limit on the national debt, as the House already has done. It is never fun for the party in power, but this year will be harder on the Democrats than ever. The final accounting on the just-ended fiscal year, delivered last week, showed a record deficit of $1.4 trillion, a gap that is the largest since the end of World War II when measured against the size of the overall economy. (Full Story) |
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