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  • A "Public Option Compromise" That's Not?

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    If the weekend is any guide, the Senate health reform bill is not likely to undergo much tweaking. Between Friday and Sunday, despite hours of debate on the Senate floor, the only amendments that passed were those from Democrats simply reiterating things the bill already calls for. One sponsored by [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 6:57pm EST
    by Kate Pickert

  • Obama's "Pep Talk"

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    President Barack Obama journeyed to Capitol Hill for a rare Sunday visit as the Senate pushed through the weekend on health care reform. The president spent more than 40 minutes rallying the Senate Democratic caucus, underlining to them the importance of passing a bill not only to the economy, but [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 4:59pm EST
    by Jay Newton-Small

  • What Barack Obama Really Thinks Of The White House Press

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    We are past, for the moment, the White House "war" on Fox, such as it was. (Obama did an interview with Fox News' Major Garrett a few weeks back, and General Petraeus is on Fox News Sunday today, with close Obama ally Dick Durbin.) Summer is gone too, and with' [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 11:38am EST
    by Michael Scherer

  • Sarah Palin, Barney Frank and the Gridiron Club

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    Sarah Palin and Barney Frank were the featured speakers at last night's winter dinner of the Gridiron Club. The event also marked what could be the beginning of a new era for the 124-year-old club, which is an institution where traditions die hard. (It was only five years ago that [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 8:55am EST
    by Karen Tumulty

  • Baucus's Legal Affairs

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    Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus found himself the center of a scrum of reporters Saturday as the Senate worked through the weekend on health care reform, though not for the usual reasons. The topics did not include the public option, abortion, health care affordability or his hearings on global [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 5:07pm EST
    by Jay Newton-Small

  • Afghan Thoughts

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    This piece by David Sanger reminds me of several points that have gone unmentioned in the discussions of the President's new Afghan policy: 1. The policy and troop surge is not intended to "defeat" the Taliban; indeed, there's a recognition that the Tals will always be a part of the picture [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 9:55am EST
    by Joe Klein

  • Tennessee Mayor Accuses Barack Obama Of Hating On Charlie Brown, Peanuts

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    Russell Wiseman, the mayor of Arlington, Tenn., (pop. 2,569 in 2000), was infuriated by President Obama's address on Afghanistan Tuesday night. This is what Wiseman posted on his Facebook page, according to the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch 'The' [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 5:27pm EST
    by Michael Scherer

  • Loving The Joke

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    A correction published today by the Washington Post: A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number. Here is the story, as corrected. More importantly the video for "911 Is A" [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 4:38pm EST
    by Michael Scherer

  • The Joint Statement Lost In Translation? Or Time Change?--Russia And U.S. Still Working On New Nukes Treaty

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    In Singapore last month, the President Obama's Senior Director for Russia, Mike McFaul, announced that the U.S. and Russia would not be able to conclude an agreement on the a follow-on to the START nuclear warhead treaty before Saturday, Dec. 5, when it is set to expire. "We have a" [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 4:20pm EST
    by Michael Scherer

  • 1,000 Words: West Point Edition

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    From our White House Photo Blog: [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:28pm EST
    by Karen Tumulty

  • The Stimulus That Obama Won't Support: Legalizing Prostitution, Drugs, Gambling, Nonviolent Crime

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    At the town hall in Schnecksville, Penn., today, President Obama got a rather direct question from a college student. QUESTION: Mr. Obama, I really appreciate how you're trying to stimulate the economy to help this country out.  And I was just wondering in LCCC in college we've been studying some criminology [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:10pm EST
    by Michael Scherer

  • Tai Shan's Extradition To China Imminent--D.C. To Lose A Panda

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    File under Super-Fauna Drama: Tai Shan, aka "Butterstick," for those who do not live in the Washington D.C. area, is a cute panda bear. Really cute. (See pictures here.) Born about four years ago at the National Zoo, he is the property of the People's Republic of China. And  Panda diplomacy, [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:54pm EST
    by Michael Scherer

  • Unemployment Today: The White House Reacts

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    Good news--at least temporarily--from the Department of Labor today. (Maybe the job summit did work some magic!) Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer blogs the details (and spin) over at the White House website: Today's employment report was the most hopeful sign yet that the stabilization of financial markets and [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 10:51am EST
    by Michael Scherer

  • Obama's White House Job Summit Takes On Unemployment, Baking Bread

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    Up on Capitol Hill Thursday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke painted yet another grim picture for the future of work in America: The high unemployment rate is a major concern because we're seeing, not just 10 percent unemployment, but we're seeing very long duration of unemployment. We're seeing a lot of people' [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 5:13pm EST
    by Michael Scherer

  • Obama's Human Resources

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    As the White House jobs summit gets under way today, here's a story looking at congressional efforts for a jobs stimulus bill. Given the GOP tarnish on the last stimulus bill, members have pushed back hard at the suggestion that any future efforts might be labeled a stimulus. "I wouldn't'" [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:49pm EST
    by Jay Newton-Small

  • Secret Service's Sullivan Takes the Hot Seat

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    Head bowed, U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan mumbled (or maybe his microphone is just too far away, but for those of us in the room he's incredibly hard to hear) his way through a morning of tough questions at a House Homeland Security Committee oversight hearing about how a [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 12:48pm EST
    by Jay Newton-Small

  • Smart on Afghanistan

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    Les Gelb finds the situation in Afghanistan serious enough to break a pledge he made when he served in the Pentagon during the war in Vietnam. This is smart analysis of, and support for, Obama's policy from a leading Afghan skeptic. [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 12:02pm EST
    by Joe Klein

  • What is Happening to the Reform in Health Reform?

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    That's the subject of my story in the newest issue of dead-tree TIME, which looks at some of the ways that Congress is already undercutting many of the promised reforms in the health care system. As is often the case when politicians and interest groups get hold of a big [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:38am EST
    by Karen Tumulty

  • Latest Column

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    On the Afghan speech and policy. [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:17am EST
    by Joe Klein

  • Desiree's (sure to be) Bad Day

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    Tomorrow morning at 10am on the third floor of the Cannon House Office building, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson will convene a hearing examining "the security breach at the White House State Dinner on Tuesday, Nov. 24. The committee will look at deficiencies in security planning, actions taken to" [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 2:20pm EST
    by Jay Newton-Small

  • Congress's Tepid Reaction to Obama's Afghanistan Plan

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    Congressional reaction to the 30,000-troop surge in Afganistan was as tepid as President Obama's West Point speech. As details of the plan leaked out throughout the day -- with more than 30 members traveling to the White House to be personally briefed -- few spoke with passion: no one – [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:50am EST
    by Jay Newton-Small

  • Taiwanese Press Scoops TMZ, Gets Video (Animation) Of Tiger Woods Crash

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    So good. (via The Awl/Ben Smith) [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 4:12pm EST
    by Michael Scherer

  • Credit Where Due

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    I've just received this from Joe Lieberman's press office: Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) joined Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) today in introducing an amendment that would revoke health insurers' and medical malpractice insurers' existing exemption from federal antitrust laws that prohibit anti-competitive conduct such as price fixing, bid rigging, and market allocations. “There' [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 3:52pm EST
    by Joe Klein

  • Five Things The President Will Say Tonight About Afghanistan

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    White House officials just briefed reporters on President Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan. Here is the top-line takeaway: 1. He plans to increase troop strength in Afghanistan by 30,000 Americans, making the total U.S. troop count 98,000. These forces will be in place by the summer of 2010. A senior administration [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 3:43pm EST
    by Michael Scherer

  • Through The 2008 Campaign Looking Glass--John McCain on Medicare Cuts, Now And Then

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    One can be forgiven for the double take. Back during the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama was the one accusing John McCain of wanting to cut Medicare benefits for seniors--a claim that independent fact checkers called "false." (McCain had proposed vaguely defined cost savings in Medicare, not benefit cuts.) Now everything [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:37pm EST
    by Michael Scherer

  • The Afghanistan Decision

    Number of comments: 10
    Here's the most comprehensive, and careful, report I've seen so far about the decisions the President has made on Afghanistan. My sense, from conversations with assorted Administration officials, that the big news not yet reported will have to do with time limits for the U.S. military presence--though not a fixed' [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:30am EST
    by Joe Klein

  • No Fame For You!

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    Best punishment for the White House party-crashers and pathological fame-seekers whose names I refuse to mention: no cameras at the House Homeland Security Committee hearings at which they'll testify on Thursday. Or make them testify behind a screen with their voices digitally altered. In a just and sane world, they' [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:25am EST
    by Amy Sullivan

  • Piling On Desirée Rogers--Is The Social Secretary To Blame For Two Ticketless Boobs At The White House?

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    There is an unwritten rule in Washington: If you want to last, don't stand out. Those who do—think Tom DeLay with his cigars, Jack Abramoff with his restaurant—tend to get clipped before too long. Some call it the “tall poppy syndrome,” probably owing to an anecdote, recorded by Aristotle, of' [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:00pm EST
    by Michael Scherer

  • Does Bill Clinton Have a Woman Problem?

    Number of comments: 10
    Not that kind of woman problem. But potentially a more troubling one. Power journalism couple Susan Glasser and Peter Baker sat down with Clinton recently for a Foreign Policy interview and asked him this question: "Who is the smartest, most penetrating thinker you know?" Off the top of his head, Clinton [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:42pm EST
    by Amy Sullivan

  • On Civility

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    Back in the 1990s, before he became Karl Rove's Deputy Minister of Propaganda, Pete Wehner had two friends in what might be called the liberal media--E.J. Dionne and me. Pete was William Bennett's ghost-writer in those days and he liked us because we both liked faith-based social programs, and were [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:20pm EST
    by Joe Klein

  • Health Bill: What Would It Cost Me?

    Number of comments: 10
    That has been one of the hardest questions to answer, in part because everyone's situation with regard to health care is so different. Today, the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Taxation Committee issued an analysis that is pretty dense to read, but suggests the Senate version of the bill' [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:58pm EST
    by Karen Tumulty

  • The League of Ambivalent Columnists

    Number of comments: 10
    Fred Kaplan is ambivalent about what to do in Afghanistan...and makes great arguments against all options, which I fully endorse. There is one argument for continuing the fight that I would add, however: Pakistan. If the U.S. doesn't remain engaged in Afghanistan, the civilian government in Pakistan--already an incredibly shaky' [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:02pm EST
    by Joe Klein

  • The New Afghan Strategy Roll Out Begins

    Number of comments: 7
    A little before 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, a reporter for Scripps Howard, who had drawn weekend pool duty, sent his colleagues in the White House press corps a note: "WH press has no details as to how POTUS spent the day, except to say that he spent it at the" [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:28pm EST
    by Michael Scherer

  • Good Idea

    Number of comments: 10
    Paul Starr of Princeton, one of the real wise men when it comes to health care reform, put things into the correct perspective in yesterday's New York Times: the most important challenge is to create a system of robust health care exchanges--that is, super-stores where individuals and small businesses (and, [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:38am EST
    by Joe Klein

  • Iran's Silly Reaction

    Number of comments: 10
    Iran's "decision" to build ten new nuclear processing plants is both risible and pathetic. This is a country that has most of the world united against its nuclear defiance--a situation that the regime seems to think it can use to bolster domestic support, as it used to do when it [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:48am EST
    by Joe Klein

  • 1,000 Words: Gate-crasher Edition

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    The White House has put out this photo of gate-crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi meeting the President in the receiving line of last week's state dinner. So, Swampland commenters, what do you think they were saying here?: After the jump, statements from the Secret Service and White House spokesman Nick Shapiro: From [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:14am EST
    by Karen Tumulty

  • Iran Censured

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    There are those who'll say that this is purely symbolic, since the resolution doesn't have teeth--but the Iranians have been censured by the IAEA for non-compliance with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty on a 25-3 votes. The three countries voting against were: Cuba, Venezuela and, for some reason, Malaysia. But the [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:03pm EST
    by Joe Klein

  • Chutzpah

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    A well-known fiscal policy expert has expressed dismay over the growing deficits presided over by President Obama: When Mr. Obama was sworn into office the federal deficit for this year stood at $422 billion. At the end of October, it stood at $1.42 trillion. Horrors! This well-known whiz catalogues the list of [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:50pm EST
    by Joe Klein

  • UPDATE: Guess Who Came To Dinner?

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    At least two people who weren't invited, we now know. Just how reality-TV-wannabes Michaele and Tareq Salahi managed to crash last week's first State Dinner (See TIME's photos here.) has been the subject of back-to-back front page stories in the Washington Post and another one in the New York Times.' [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:33am EST
    by Karen Tumulty

  • Dealing With Iran

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    Some wise words from Maziar Bahari this Thanksgiving morning. [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 9:52am EST
    by Joe Klein

  • 1,000 Words: Happy Thanksgiving Edition

    Number of comments: 10
    This photo by Brooks Kraft comes to us via our White House Photo Blog. I love the look on Sasha's face. What parent hasn't felt that one when you are doing something that your offspring finds a bit embarrassing? Happy Thanksgiving to all our Swampland readers, and especially to our regular' [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:45pm EST
    by Karen Tumulty

  • State Dinner, Uh, Fashion

    Number of comments: 10
    Desiree, who did this to you? Tell us. We will hunt that person down and hurt him or her. UPDATE: Brooks Kraft offers us this photo gallery of what otherwise appears to have been a lovely evening. UPDATE2: We believe we have identified the perpetrator. [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:34am EST
    by Karen Tumulty

  • Another Signal from Iran

    Number of comments: 4
    The Iranian foreign minister suggests that the nuclear deal may still be on, pending "guarantees" from the west. I wouldn't take it to the bank, given all the counter-indications from higher ranking members of the government. But it does indicate some...confusion, or indecision, or something other than dead certainty in' [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:30am EST
    by Joe Klein

  • Latest Column

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    How's Obama doing?  (Hint: still too early to tell.) [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:09am EST
    by Joe Klein

  • Abortion, Women's Health and Health Reform

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    On the op-ed page of today's NYT, Wellesley economics professor Phillip B. Levine offers some real-world perspective. [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:36am EST
    by Karen Tumulty

  • 1,000 Words: Thanksgiving Commemorative Edition

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    Word is, the Obama turkey pardon is set for today. But I've decided commemorating this one, which inspired what may have been our very first caption contest, should become an annual tradition here in Swampland. They just don't get any better: [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:37am EST
    by Karen Tumulty

  • Free Michelle!

    Number of comments: 10
    From TIME's Sophia Yan: Michelle Obama has been held by US Customs and Border Protection in the port of LA for the last two weeks -- 10,000 Michelles, to be exact.  The first shipment of the Michelle Obama action figure by Jailbreak Toys, designed in New York and manufactured in China, [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:51pm EST
    by Amy Sullivan

  • Guess Who Came to Dinner?

    Number of comments: 10
    For anyone out there who shares my enjoyment of poring over these things and reading too much into them, I've pasted after the jump a list of the expected attendees at tonight's White House State Dinner for the Indian Prime Minister. Which Emanuel brother wasn't at the dinner? Does the fact [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:42pm EST
    by Amy Sullivan

  • 1,000 Words: Fun and Games Edition

    Number of comments: 10
    While "1,000 Words" breathlessly awaits the annual presidential pardon of the Thanksgiving turkey, we amuse ourselves with this photo from our White House Photo Blog: [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:10pm EST
    by Karen Tumulty

  • UPDATE: A Toothless Task Force? Hardly.

    Number of comments: 10
    UPDATE: Since publishing this post about the US Preventive Services Task Force around 2 p.m., I have been told by the White House that my interpretation of the Senate legislative language is off. This was, incidentally, the interpretation of several non-partisan policy experts I spoke to as well, but that [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:08pm EST
    by Kate Pickert
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