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document.write('<br /> Alexander Bolton, The Hill<br/>Democrats in Congress are holding White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel accountable for his part in the collapse of healthcare reform.The emerging consensus among critics in both chambers is that Emanuel\'s lack of Senate experience slowed President Barack Obama\'s top domestic priority.		 			 				 					 											     					 				 			 		 	The share of the blame comes as cracks are beginning to show in Emanuel\'s once-impregnable political armor. Last week he had to apologize after a report surfaced that he called liberal groups &amp;quot;retarded&amp;quot;&#157; in a private...');
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document.write('<br /> J. Zeleny &amp; H. Cooper, NYT<br/>');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/02/09/a_difference_of_direction_on_health_care_229189.html"  target="_blank">A Difference of Direction on Health Care</a>');
document.write('<br /> Yuval Levin, National Review<br/>Monday, February 08, 2010Which Way, Not How Far&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;[Yuval Levin]The Ezra Klein post that Stephen Spruiell ably critcizes below raises (by failing to see) an important point. The difference between most conservatives and most liberals on health care is not a difference of degree but a difference of direction &amp;mdash; a difference on the question of which we way want to move from our existing highly inefficient system of paying for health insurance.Both sides agree there are huge problems with the current system, and they even agree on what some of those problems are: there...');
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document.write('<br /> Dayo Olopade, American Prospect<br/>(White House/Pete Souza)Hours before dawn on one of the last days of October 2009, the deadliest month for American troops in Afghanistan since 2001, Eric Holder, attorney general of the United States, strode out of a C-17 cargo plane parked at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. President Barack Obama, having reversed the ban on media coverage of the arrival of war dead at Dover, trailed just behind. During the official military ceremony, the two friends stood in dark suits, silently saluting 18 servicemen, including three Drug Enforcement Agency officials claimed by the Afghan War days prior....');
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document.write('<br /> Daniel Ikenson, Detroit News<br/>When he urged Americans to &quot;stop driving&quot; their Toyotas last week, was Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood speaking as the head of a federal agency concerned with highway safety or as a sales advocate for a nationalized General Motors? In testimony before the House Appropriations subcommittee on transportation last Wednesday, LaHood said: &quot;My advice to anyone who owns one of these vehicles is stop driving it, and take it to the Toyota dealership because they believe they have the fix for it.&quot; Later that day, LaHood tried to clarify his remark, adding that the National...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/02/09/manufactured_crisis_over_budget_deficit_229193.html"  target="_blank">Manufactured Crisis Over Budget Deficit</a>');
document.write('<br /> Dean Baker, Huffington Post<br/>The country faces a serious crisis in the form of a manufactured crisis over the budget deficit. This is a crisis because concerns over the size of the budget deficit are preventing the government from taking the steps needed to reduce the unemployment rate. This creates the absurd situation where we have millions of people who are unemployed, not because of their own lack of skills or unwillingness to work, but because people like Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke mismanaged the economy. The basic story is very simple and one that we have known since Keynes. We need to create demand in the...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/02/09/paul_ryan039s_express_229194.html"  target="_blank">Paul Ryan\'s Express</a>');
document.write('<br /> Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard<br/>Democratic postmortems on Barack Obama\'s disappointing first year in the Oval Office have emphasized, as the president himself did, difficulties inherited from &amp;quot;the last eight years.&amp;quot;&#157; Republicans, for their part, credit public opposition to Obama\'s overreaching policies. But a full explanation goes much deeper. Obama is failing because he has turned the constitutional functions of the presidency upside down.Last week, a little more than 24 hours after the FBI warned senators not to disclose the sensitive information that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was cooperating...');
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document.write('<br /> Michael Levenson, Boston Globe<br/>CAMBRIDGE  - For Governor Deval Patrick, who was swept into office a little more than three years ago by a popular groundswell, it was a strikingly candid concession.&amp;#8220;We had this incredibly rich relationship that we built with the grass-roots network the last time,&amp;#8217;&amp;#8217; the governor told 20 supporters at a private home here last week. &amp;#8220;And then we got in, and we let it go. And there are reasons for that. But I think it&amp;#8217;s a terrible thing. We missed it. I missed it personally. And I think a lot of the folks in the organization missed...');
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