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President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation.
 

‘Tis the season when Democrats and Republicans eat their own.Eight months of primaries for party nominations get under way next week in House, Senate, gubernatorial and legislative races.

For an hour on live television, Obama danced around the Republicans, landing blows and coming out ahead on pointsWhen the Republicans invited President Obama to address their congressional House delegation in Baltimore today, they had no idea how badly it would turn out for them.Presumably the Republicans thought they’d get a high-profile chance to grill [...]

Obama just spoke to and took questions from the House Republican Caucus at their retreat in Baltimore. I don’t know if any of you had occasion to see this. Whichever side you’re on, this was fascinating television. I don’t recall ever seeing this before in my life. You will be unsurprised to learn that I [...]

Item one: There was a vote in the Senate yesterday to establish pay-as-you-go budgeting principles, which are just what they sound like they are. You’d think Reps would like this sort of thing. In the past, at least four sitting GOP senators have said they support this. So what was the vote? 60-40 in support, [...]

I let this stuff go 99% of the time, but sometimes I just can’t. Two early comments on my last piece deserve mention. First, this gem by MacRandall. Trying to disprove my assertion that “Republicans are least popular of all,” s/he produces a sentence that says: “A month after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s showdown with [...]

The nation cannot afford the spending Democrats have enacted or the tax increases they propose, Virginia Gov.

The White House has released the first extracts from President Obama’s state of the union address to CongressThe White House has just sent out the first set of extracts from President Obama’s speech tonight – so this presumably is what it wants the focus to be on…Part oneWe face big and difficult challenges. And what [...]

Scott Brown’s seizure of Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts seat in the Senate seat has breathed new life into a dispirited rightThe mood in the lunch room of the Florida yacht club was electric. Though the freezing temperatures of ice-bound Massachusetts were a thousand miles away from the warm sunshine of Daytona Beach the talk at the [...]

We had some technical issues this morning. Apologies. Lots to catch up on: 1. The Supreme Court may have just done more this morning to help Republicans than Scott Brown or Martha Coakley or Barack Obama could ever do. Read this. You see, corporations are individuals in this country, with the same rights of freedom [...]