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Blog Nuggets: Sorry Mr. President, we’re washing our hair that evening
Bite-sized bits of bloggery from today’s headlines One of the great antidotes to cynicism about Canadian politics is prolonged exposure to the American variety. While Ottawa slumbered peacefully trough...
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Kelly McParland: Professor Obama takes a turn as Rocky Balboa
Professor Barack Obama, the cerebral academic with the big theories on government, gave the impression Thursday night that he’s learned a big lesson: Congress isn’t his friend. You could see it in the...
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Democrats try to turn budget war into tax debate on big earners
If Barack Obama is to somehow pull off a successful re-election campaign, he’ll have to do it despite some of the most relentlessly bad economic news since the famed “malaise” of Jimmy Carter. This,...
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Sheldon Alberts: Boehner hit by friendly fire in latest Tea Party firefight
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner is sometimes asked whether it’s fun being the most powerful Republican in Congress – the guy who ostensibly controls much of the nation’s legislative agenda. “Hell no,...
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Kelly McParland: Harper delivers timely oil warning to Washington’s warring...
Stephen Harper sent a none-too-subtle shot across the bow of our American friends and allies Monday when he indicated he’s dead keen on selling Canadian oil to buyers in Asia. He didn’t put it in so...
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Tax-cutting Republicans get stuck with blame for Christmas tax increase
The soap opera that is the U.S. government reached the end of its scheduled run today, with a cliffhanger finish that leaves Republican House leader John Boehner facing an unhappy Christmas break,...
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Charles Krauthammer: Washington’s marching morons launch full retreat
Now that Congress appears finally to have reached a compromise on what must be one of the worst pieces of legislation in years — the temporary payroll tax holiday extension — let’s survey the damage....
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Kelly McParland: Tea Party may have passed its best-before date
A key goal of the Tea Party when it stormed into Washington was to bring down Barack Obama, on the theory that the President was a failure and they were there to fix things. But barely 15 months since...
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Kelly McParland: Drama aplenty as clock runs down to final episode of “The...
The most diverting part of the Fiscal Cliff Show, now playing for a limited run in Washington, is the high drama U.S. politicians have once again managed to bring to a dry economic equation. It’s as if...
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Charles Krauthammer: GOP in danger of losing fiscal cliff debate, and its...
Let’s understand President Obama’s strategy in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. It has nothing to do with economics or real fiscal reform. This is entirely about politics. It’s Phase 2 of the 2012...
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Full Comment’s World in 60 Seconds: Justin gets a break
A Hamas-supporting Islamic group has withdrawn as a sponsor of the Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS) conference, so Justin Trudeau can speak in comfort. Conference says it’s “extremely unfortunate...
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Kelly McParland: Republicans may yet halt short of the cliff edge
You really think you’d like to be the U.S. president? Consider Barack Obama’s weekend: he travelled to Newtown, Conn. to take party in a wrenching vigil to the children murdered in the latest...
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Kelly McParland: Republicans discover ‘Plan B’ stands for ‘Bust’
John Boehner, the Republican House leader who was abandoned by his own party on Thursday night, is getting pummelled by the pundits on Friday. Boehner was left hanging by fellow Republicans when his...
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Kelly McParland: Republicans become the party of idea. Just the one
This may go down as the year the Republicans ceased being a party to be taken seriously. It’s been a long slide. It didn’t begin this year, but has been ongoing, since at least George W. Bush days....
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Charles Krauthammer: Obama’s mission; Higher taxes
The rout was complete, the retreat disorderly. U.S. President Barack Obama got his tax hikes — naked of spending cuts — passed by the ostensibly Republican House of Representatives. After which, you...
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Matthew Yglesias: America’s permanent fiscal emergency
The fiscal cliff is dead — but the era of America’s semi-permanent fiscal policy crisis is still here. Indeed, if anything, the resolution of the cliff has simply served to set up a quantitatively...
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Kelly McParland: Washington proves the value of a strong Harper
There’s a constituency that argues Canada needs a more representative electoral system to dilute the power the present system gives to parties with limited voter support. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives...
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Charles Krauthammer: Maybe going over the cliff in the name of principle...
It has become conventional wisdom that Republicans are suffering an internal split that President Obama is successfully exploiting to neuter the Republican House. It is not true, however, that the...
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‘Weak’ Obama suddenly transforms into ‘Annihilation Man’
I have no idea whether John Boehner is correct in his latest assessment of Barack Obama. But his view certainly represents a turnaround in the Republican Party’s stock criticism of the President. In a...
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Keystone report puts a green light at the end of the tunnel
Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: U.S. environmentalists are reeling after the State Department cut the ground from under...
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