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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: United Nations, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Crime, Law and Justice, Eric Holder, U.S. Senate
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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: Immigration, Ronald Reagan, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Jimmy Carter, U.S. Senate
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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: Freedom of the Press, Work Relations, Mitt Romney, Politics, Taxation
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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: Jay Carney, Saving Private Ryan (movie), Hillary Clinton, Whitehall, Barack Obama
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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: Mike Huckabee, Crime, Law and Justice, Radio, Michele Bachmann, Eric Holder
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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: Republican Party, Denis R. McDonough, Government Debt, Parties and Movements, Taxation
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Obama allies and former aides urge him to make economy a bigger, bolder topic
Associated PressWASHINGTON (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: Republican Party, Denis R. McDonough, Government Debt, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama
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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: Al-Qaeda, Jay Carney, Media Industry, Susan Rice, FBI
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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: Global Expansion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Senate, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama
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White House fights back on IRS as GOP keeps up pressure
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON — A senior White House aide insisted Sunday that President Obama learned only from news reports that an IRS office had singled out dozens of tea party organizations and other conservative groups for questionable scrutiny, while...Tags: NBC (tv network), ABC (tv network), Rob Portman, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Taxation
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The president's 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 meet...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Jay Carney, Media Industry, Susan Rice, FBI
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John Dean: Obama's scandals are more like Harding's than Nixon's
During President Barack Obama's May 16 news conference, reporter Jeff Mason asked as part of his question: "And, more broadly, how do you feel about comparisons by some of your critics of this week's scandals to those that happened under the Nixon...Tags: United Nations, Richard Nixon, Susan Rice, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama
May 20, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
May 20, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 20, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 20, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
May 20, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 20, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
May 19, 2013
|Story| AP Member Choice Limited
May 20, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
May 20, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
May 19, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 19, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
May 21, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
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