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/ 10 January 2011
The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords may lead to the temporary hibernation of right-wing rage, but it is encoded in conservative DNA.
Republicans will be out to sabotage the Healthcare Bill while Obama tries to heal the bipartisan rift.
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/ 11 January 2010
He spent a year trying to do things co-operatively. Now he must take more charge and not let Congress call the shots.
Ted Kennedy left his imprint on more legislation than any other senator. His death marks the end of an
era in United Statespolitics.
The conservatives who now dominate the party of the American right may come to rue losing their moderate wing.
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/ 9 February 2009
Well, it’s already happened. Barely two weeks into the job and President Barack Obama has compromised fundamental principles.
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/ 12 January 2009
Everybody’s nervous as hell in these tough times, so the president-elect is banking on us letting him get on and fix things.
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/ 31 December 2008
In at least one obvious way, 2008 was a pretty good year in my country. We made history in electing an African-American president.
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/ 17 November 2008
Of all the charges hurled at liberalism in America since the 1970s, few have proven as potent as the allegation of ”liberal hypocrisy”.
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/ 8 November 2008
”I wish you would make up your mind, Mr Dickens. Was it the best of times or was it the worst of times? It could scarcely have been both.”