MAY 11, 2009, 9:32 AM
The Early Word: Health Care
From health care to financing the war, this week promises to be busy.
Yes, so many press conferences, photo-ops, and personal appearance appointments to keep.
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MAY 11, 2009, 7:47 AM
Congress Appears Ready to Approve War Bills
But Democrats have withdrawn funds that would be used to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in an effort to stem rising criticism from Republicans as to where detainees would then be transferred.
Closing Guantanamo Bay and moving it to someplace else is just the kind of cosmetic-only change we can believe in! Congress won't pay for it, but that doesn't mean they don't beleive in it.
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MAY 10, 2009, 9:37 PM
The Jobless Rate, Slow to Improve, Tests Obama
The lag between recovery and falling unemployment carries multiple potential consequences for President Obama's agenda.
"Slow to Improve" in human-speak means that there is no improvement. The least of their problems is the taking of Congress by conservatives in 2010. Now there's something to hope for.
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MAY 10, 2009, 9:32 AM
The Sunday Word
After the White House correspondents gala on Saturday night, attention turns to the coming week.
What to wear this week?
A bunch of supercilious nonsense and propaganda, and then they wonder why their newspaper is folding.
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