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LETTER: Benghazi Issues Serious, But Hearings Are Political Theater
Letter writer Alan L. Coykendall is correct about facts being important, and I wish he had delved a bit deeper before expressing his opinion [May 17, "Benghazi Facts Important"]. Yes, there is much to be corrected to prevent future incidents like...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Republican Party, Barack Obama
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Obama urged to make economy a bigger, bolder topic
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five months into President Barack Obama's second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned out by controversies seized upon by Republicans in an...
Tags: John Boehner, Libya, Budgets and Budgeting, White House, Politics
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Answers about Benghazi do make a difference
The last week, highlighted by Benghazi testimony, has apparently resulted in various media members coming out of their comas. Some doubt has actually been expressed about Jay Carney's truthfulness, particularly on Benghazi. Hopefully some in this audience...Tags: Saving Private Ryan (movie), Jay Carney, Hillary Clinton, Whitehall, Barack Obama
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Biased press doesn't deserve protection
The IRS is constitutionally protected in the execution of its duties to collect income taxes. Reporters are constitutionally protected when they report fairly and honestly. The First Amendment gives the right to print the truth, not to print biased...Tags: Politics, Career and Workplace, Mitt Romney, Taxation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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GOP can't help overreaching on Obama scandals
Well, that didn't take long. Just as several genuine scandals cast the Obama administration in an unfavorable light, Republicans in Congress are already overreaching — with hyperbolic comparisons to Watergate, calls for special prosecutors,...Tags: Politics, Elections, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Internal Revenue Service, Barack Obama
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How Obama can rescue his candidacy
Here's the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Barack Obama's second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn't without some merit. On none...Tags: Libya, Politics, U.S. Department of Justice, Susan Rice, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Top item on Obama's agenda: damage control
As it must come to all American presidents, it seems, Barack Obama's policy agenda is being crowded out of the headlines by the imperative of damage control against administration scandal. The allegations of incompetence or worse in the IRS' targeting...Tags: Dwayne Johnson, Central Intelligence Agency, White House, Politics, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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GOP ponders how to capitalize on Obama's woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The scandals dogging President Barack Obama are a political gift to Republicans, who could use some good luck after recent election losses. It's not clear, however, how Republicans can best capitalize on Democrats' woes,...
Tags: John Boehner, Budget Control Act of 2011, Jack Kingston, Politics, Elections
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Tea party looks to take advantage of moment
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Is the tea party getting its groove back? Shouts of vindication from around the country suggest the movement's leaders certainly think so. They say the IRS acknowledgement that it had targeted their groups for extra...
Tags: Libya, Politics, Mitt Romney, Elections, U.S. Department of Justice
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As GOP weighs how best to profit from Obama's problems, Democrats hope it overplays its hand
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The scandals dogging President Barack Obama are a political gift to Republicans, who could use some good luck after recent election losses. It's not clear, however, how Republicans can best capitalize on Democrats' woes,...Tags: John Boehner, Budget Control Act of 2011, Jack Kingston, Politics, Elections
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Column: Obama accelerates loss of trust
WASHINGTON — Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government...Tags: Executive Branch, Politics, Government, Weather, Elections
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Redacted truth, subjunctive outrage
WASHINGTON — Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-Contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don't know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn't...
Tags: Libya, Police Investigations, Central Intelligence Agency, Jay Carney, The Washington Post
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