David Broder
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BRODER: Fall of a no-pretence guy
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Last Updated: 6:55 PM 03/06/10 - This is not the way Sandy Levin would have wanted it. The Michigan Democrat became acting chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee last week after its former chairman, Charlie Rangel of New York, stepped down — temporarily, he says — because he was censured by the House ethics committee for going on a corporate-financed junket (Full Story) |
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BRODER: Emanuel and his ‘advisers’
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Last Updated: 7:08 PM 03/03/10 - In the space of 10 days, thanks in no small part to my own newspaper, The Washington Post, the president of the United States has been portrayed as a weakling and a chronic screw-up who is wrecking his administration despite everything that his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, can do to make things right. (Full Story) |
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BRODER: A great effort for nation’s Great Lakes
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Last Updated: 8:36 PM 02/25/10 - If you want to be a stickler for journalistic ethics, I shouldn’t even be writing about the Great Lakes, because I have a huge bias — especially when it comes to Lake Michigan. (Full Story) |
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BRODER: For our nation’s governors, there are no easy choices
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Last Updated: 7:52 PM 02/20/10 - As the nation’s governors gather in Washington for their annual winter meeting, the states they lead are facing what one knowledgeable authority calls “a lost decade” of stagnant or declining revenues and budget crises. (Full Story) |
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BRODER: The straw that broke Bayh’s Senate term
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Last Updated: 8:33 PM 02/18/10 - The last time Sen. Evan Bayh was the subject of this column was back in October, when he organized a letter from 10 moderate Democrats informing Majority Leader Harry Reid that they would oppose any increase in the statutory debt ceiling unless it was accompanied by a serious move to rein in the national debt. (Full Story) |
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BRODER: Palin a populist with a pitch
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Last Updated: 7:30 PM 02/11/10 - The snows that obliterated Washington last week interfered with many scheduled meetings, but they did not prevent the delivery of one important political message: Take Sarah Palin seriously. (Full Story) |
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BRODER: The change option is Obama’s
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Last Updated: 10:23 PM 02/06/10 - It was toward the end of President Barack Obama’s riveting visit on Jan. 29 with the House Republicans in Baltimore — a rare 90 minutes of candor on both sides that produced the most fascinating and revealing politics in memory — when Rep. Peter Roskam of suburban Chicago was called on for a question. (Full Story) |
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BRODER: Leaders must address the big expenses
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Last Updated: 7:38 PM 02/04/10 - The economic collapse of 2008 and 2009 did so much damage to the United States that only now can we begin to measure the devastation. (Full Story) |
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BRODER: A moment of truth, and also betrayal
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Last Updated: 7:54 PM 01/28/10 - On the very same day this week when the Congressional Budget Office warned that the succession of previously unimaginable trillion-dollar-and-more budget deficits could inflict ruin on the United States, the Senate faced a moment of truth. (Full Story) |
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BRODER: A wake-up call for all Democrats
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Last Updated: 7:56 PM 01/21/10 - When I talked with Rep. Richard Neal, the veteran Democratic congressman from Springfield, Mass., on the afternoon of the special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, he told me, “It’s an alarm clock moment for us.” (Full Story) |
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