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The State of the Union: All The Good Parts

Ah, the State of the Union address. 68 minutes of political theater sandwiched between hours of political punditry with a delicious side of everybody live-blogging it. There were some awkward moments and some serious ones, and some talk about gays.

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The State of the Union: All The Good Parts

The Pandering Guide to the State of the Union

Do you have spending freeze fever?

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The Pandering Guide to the State of the Union

Obama turns up heat over ruling on campaign spending

WASHINGTON — President Obama took aim at the Supreme Court on Saturday, saying the justices had “handed a huge victory to the special interests and their lobbyists” with last week’s 5-to-4 decision to lift restrictions on campaign spending by corporations and unions. The decision will have major political implications for this year’s midterm elections.

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Scott Brown Wins Mass. Senate Race, Pimps Out Daughters In Victory Speech

Republican Scott Brown just won Massachusetts’ Senate Deathrace™. Brown ran a killer campaign and has promised to kill Democrats’ health care bill. And it’s lucky his daughters didn’t die of embarrassment, given what he said in his victory speech tonight

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Yale: The Musical!

Interested in going to Yale? Would you be more interested if some people sang and danced for your pleasure? The school’s admissions department sure seems to hope so, if their “That Why I Chose Yale” recruitment video is any indication.

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The ‘White Obama’: A Massachusetts Senate Election Primer

Scott Brown , Republican candidate for Senate from Massachusetts, has conservatives in absolute rapture.

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The ‘White Obama’: A Massachusetts Senate Election Primer

The Rattners Support Harold Ford Because Gillibrand Was a Bad Girlfriend

Have you been wondering why power couple Steven Rattner and Maureen White , rich Democratic fundraisers and friends to all local plutocrats, are supporting Harold Ford ? Because Kirsten Gillibrand broke Maureen’s brothers heart

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Rattners Support Ford Because Gillibrand Was a Bad Girlfriend

Have you been wondering why power couple Steven Rattner and Maureen White , rich Democratic fundraisers and friends to all local plutocrats, are supporting Harold Ford ?

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Rattners Support Ford Because Gillibrand Was a Bad Girlfriend

Government health insurance option appears doomed

Senior House Democrats have largely abandoned hopes of including a government-run insurance option in the final compromise health care bill taking shape, according to several officials, and are pushing for other measures to rein in private insurers. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other senior Democrats told President Barack Obama in recent meetings they want the legislation to strip the insurance industry of a long-standing exemption from federal antitrust laws, officials said. That provision is in the House-passed measure, but was omitted from the bill that the Senate passed on Christmas Eve.

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Government health insurance option appears doomed

Senate passes historic health care reform legislation 60-39

WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill early Thursday morning that could define President Barack Obama's legacy and usher in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in U.S. history. Ahead lie complex talks with the House to reach final legislation in the new year

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