The Bullpen
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What Obama should do now
feature There are times when picking a fight on principle is also good politics. With the midterm election fast approaching, here's the fight Obama should be waging
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Saving Social Security -- and Democratic seats
feature In their desire to dismantle Social Security, Republicans have given Democrats an issue that has been politically potent before -- and can be so again.
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Three new realities of the Obama Era
feature The passage of health-care reform has reshaped more than the insurance industry. It's brought a truce on abortion, married Republicans to the mob, and restored progressivism to the presidency after a five-decade hiatus
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For Obama, success is at hand
feature The premature gloom about Obama's presidency will soon be swept away by the reality: Obama is resurgent.
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The organ-grinder Congress
feature With the Capitol transformed into a big top, Democrats can't afford to be spectators
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Is Obama's re-election bid really in trouble?
feature Forget the noisy declarations about lousy economic news sinking Obama’s re-election. The president is still on track for a second term
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The blame game
feature America's economic panic is the fault of Tea Partiers, S&P, speculators, and Big Business. And it's up to Obama to convince us to put country first
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Get over it, liberals
feature Principles matter, but not as much as progress
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Obama, tax cuts, and principle
feature Obama can't risk a middle class tax hike that would damage the recovery and hand power to a cynical GOP. So he'll cave on extending tax cuts to the wealthy instead
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Obama's momentous April
feature The president faces a critical month for the American military mission in Libya, and the raging budget battles in D.C.
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The budget battle could be a defining moment for Barack Obama
feature If he speaks the plain truth about the GOP's real ideological agenda, he can win the contest for America’s future
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Can Obama reverse the tide?
feature The president is speaking like a Democrat. And he sounds pretty good.
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LBJ's pens and Obama's peril
feature Lyndon Johnson achieved a formidable legislative record as president, but was undone by two key failures. Obama faces the same two challenges — fortunately, he still has time to correct course
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The enduring greatness of JFK
feature Fifty years after his inauguration, John F. Kennedy's words continue to enlarge America
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