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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

It's All Politics

Paul Ryan Defends Medicare Plan After GOP House Seat Loss Tied To It

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), May 25, 2011.

May 25, 2011 The morning after Republicans lost a long-safe congressional seat in New York, partly from anger over GOP proposals to remake Medicare and Medicaid, the plan's author came out swinging. He accused Democrats of "demagoguing." A White House aide said Democrats were actually "explaining."

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Friday, January 07, 2011

It's All Politics

Obama 2.0 Looking Ever More Like Clinton 2.0

President Obama with Gene Sperling (l) his new director of the National Economic Council and Katharine G. Abraham, a new member of his Council of Economic Advisers.

January 7, 2011 Gene Sperling as Obama's National Economic Council chair added to his White House's Clinton look as he heads into the second half of his four-year term. William Daley and many others mean the president is relying on battle-tested aides.

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