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Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.” —Barack Obama, 2009. ATLANTA— The above was the quote of the year for me. I’m going ahead and declaring it, this early into 2010.  I think pundits and prognosticators will be referencing back to this gem of a quote all through the summer [...]

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ATLANTA— In the wake of the Massachusetts’s massacre, Barack Obama is reconstituting his 2008 election campaign team, centralizing control of the mid-term Democratic election campaign arm, and vowing to “fight” for his agenda. Mr. Obama and his team are declaring they will not back off big goals like health care reform and cap-and-trade. And they actually [...]

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ATLANTA— The Massachusetts Senatorial race for Ted Kennedy’s open seat has suddenly turned into a nail biter.  Against all odds, moderate Republican Scott Brown has pulled almost even with front-runner Martha Coakley in some polls.  The odds of Mr. Brown winning in a state where registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans three-to-one and where liberals dominate virtually [...]

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ATLANTA – All indicators are that a compromise has been reached within the ranks of the Democratic Party and passage of the bill in the Senate is inevitable.   As an institution, this one party, with the full backing of 38% of this country, may have just rewritten our entire health care system.  My only consolations [...]

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ATLANTA— The fiscally reckless public option is finally dead.  It’s seems liberals in the Senate are finally letting go of the miserable idea in the name of passing the health care bill.  The public option and the MediCare buy-in have completely failed.  That’s the good news for conservatives.  The bad news is that if the Senate [...]

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ATLANTA— I have picked up a new read, Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat.  It will be my second political-economic read of the year, following Amity Shlae’s fantastic history of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man.  For a while now, I have thought it would be fun to blog about books I am reading as I read [...]

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  ATLANTA— In yet another sign that conservatives may be forcibly changing the direction of the Republican Party (and possibly the country), Dede Scozzafava (R), has suspended her campaign in the New York District 23 run-off election for Congress.  Mrs. Scozzafava has been pilloried by the right for being pro-abortion and too soft on state spending and other [...]

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