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Trading Moral Power For Political Power - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Trading Moral Power For Political Power - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan[A]cross the 20th century, [the Church] was a force for progressive social change. That is over. For the first time in its history, the American Catholic hierarchy is solidl...
The Growth of the Filibuster
Ezra Klein - The filibuster has gone from affecting 8 percent of big bills in the 1950s to 70 percent in the 2000sAccording to research by UCLA political scientist Barbara Sinclair, there was an average of one filibuster per Congress during the 1950s...
Accomplished
A Big First Year? -- Political Wire"If, as seems increasingly likely, Obama wins passage of a health care reform a bill by that date, he will deliver his first State of the Union address having accomplished more than any other postwar American presid...
Wasted Potential - HorsesAss.Org
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Obama\'s Big Gov SWAT Team
Obama's Big Gov SWAT Team - BusinessWeek[Zients] became the nation's first chief performance officer on June 29. His task: making sure the government's 24 major agencies and departments are running smoothly and getting as much bang for their budgets ...
Obama\'s Secret Climate Pact - The Daily Beast
Obama's Secret Climate Pact - The Daily BeastNow Obama is at the point where he feels on the verge of a breakthrough, based on the kind of talks that don’t get covered by reporters obsessing about state dinners. “He had extensive conversations wi...

