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<title><![CDATA[David S. Broder on tributes to World War II vets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ My mind was on the debt we owe our veterans even before the tragic shootings at Fort Hood. A couple of weeks before Veterans Day, I went down to the National World War II Memorial on the Mall to join Bob and Elizabeth Dole and a group of elderly soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen from her home town of Salisbury, N.C., who had been flown to Washington that morning to get their first view of the nation's tribute to the troops that helped defeat Hitler's forces. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Election defeats may spell midterm disaster for Democrats]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Ayear after Barack Obama's election stirred broad hopes for change among American voters, persistent high unemployment and the spectacle of continued gridlock in Washington threaten Democratic dominance of the political landscape. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[David S. Broder on next week's elections as an opening act for 2010]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The first key votes of the Obama era take place this week, not on the floor of the House or Senate, where health-care legislation still languishes, but in Virginia, New Jersey and northern New York state, where President Obama's endorsements of threatened Democratic candidates will test his political clout a year after his own election. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[David S. Broder on Harry Reid's Opt-Out Plan on the Public Option]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ There is an air of desperate improvisation to Sen. Harry Reid's scheme to pass a "public option" as part of health-care reform but at the same time provide an easy exemption for any state that objects to it. The warning flags ought to be flying for anyone who can count to three -- let alone 60.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575124997" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575124997" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[David S. Broder on honestly tackling the deficit]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ When I wrote a few days ago about the growing nervousness of moderate Senate Democrats over the approaching vote to raise the federal debt limit, I had no idea how quickly evidence of that shift in the political winds would appear. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[David S. Broder on the possible Senate uprising over deficits and debt]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Within the next few weeks, probably as soon as the votes on health-care reform have been taken, the Senate faces the painful duty of once again raising the statutory limit on the national debt, as the House already has done. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Delaware's Obama Referendum]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ A year from now, when we are in the final weeks of the midterm election campaigns, voters across the country will probably be focused on a state that has rarely drawn attention from any but its own residents. Delaware, noted only for its gentlemanly politics, will probably be the site of one of the most hard-fought and headline-grabbing Senate races in America. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Will the Health Reform Bill Be Substantive?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ It has taken much longer than President Obama had hoped, but we are finally at the point where he can -- and must -- put his personal stamp on his main domestic initiative, the overhaul of the health-care system.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575128881" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575128881" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When Fitness for Office Becomes a Weighty Issue]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Every time you think politics has hit a new low, it finds a way to go lower. I thought we had reached the nadir last month when Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted "You lie!" at President Obama while he was speaking to a joint session of Congress. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Health-Care Rift Between Old Allies]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ One of the intriguing mysteries of this year is why the initial broad support from American business for overhauling the health-care system has not translated into more than a handful of votes from Republicans in the House and Senate. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[It's Time for Obama to Reveal His True Political Self]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama has reached the moment of truth for answering the persistent question about his core beliefs and political priorities. The coming votes in the House and Senate on his signature health-care reform effort will tell us more about the president than anything so far in his White House tenure. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[An Olympic Moment for Obama -- and Chicago]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ He may have bigger challenges now and in years to come, but nothing will endear Barack Obama to some of us more than his decision to take a quick transatlantic round trip to lobby the International Olympic Committee on behalf of Chicago's bid to be the host city of the 2016 Summer Games.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575132837" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575132837" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama's National Security Team Plays Well Together]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ For President Obama, last week was rather like a major exam on his skills as a diplomat and architect of foreign policy. He can count on being tested again and again by unexpected events. But in his debut at the United Nations and as host to the Group of 20 economic powers in Pittsburgh, Obama was given more scrutiny by foreign leaders and domestic constituencies than at any other time in his young presidency. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama's 'Policy Presidency']]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ A new publication came across my desk this week containing an essay that offers as good an insight into President Obama's approach to government as anything I have read -- and is particularly useful in understanding the struggle over health-care reform. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Max Baucus's Bumpy Middle Road on Health Reform]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In the early 1970s, when Max Baucus, now the senior senator from Montana and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was contemplating entering politics, he sought advice from many veteran public servants. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The First Strike in a Trade War?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In an economic debate measured by staggering multibillion-dollar sums and unemployment figures logging in the hundreds of thousands, the stakes in the rubber tire import dispute with China seem stunningly small.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575135939" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575135939" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama's Two Speeches]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ A great speech is a combination of words and music, of content and color, of substance and emotion. When the speech is as important as the health-care address that President Obama delivered to Congress on Wednesday night, it is worthwhile to go back and analyze the parts. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Accountability, but at What Cost?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ My friend and fellow columnist Eugene Robinson has written a characteristically passionate and well-reasoned piece commending Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to name a special counsel to examine possible law-breaking by interrogators of terrorist subjects during the last administration. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama's Challenges on Health Reform, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ I sure hope that President Obama and his family enjoyed their week's vacation on Martha's Vineyard, because what he faces on his return to Washington is sheer hell. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kennedy: A Man Unbowed and Unchanged]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ When I first encountered him in Beckley, W.Va., in the spring of 1960, Ted Kennedy was an impossibly handsome 28-year-old, campaigning for his big brother in the Democratic primary against Hubert Humphrey.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575139106" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575139106" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Company Bob Novak Kept]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Before Bob Novak created the self-parody as "The Prince of Darkness" that his friends and TV fans enjoyed so much, he had two other journalistic identities. With his partner, the late Rowland Evans, he wrote one of the most influential political columns of the late 20th century. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Experts on Whether It's Too Soon for a Verdict on the Stimulus]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Before the opponents of health-care reform turned congressional town meetings into shouting matches, they had picked another target. The naysayers announced to the world that the economic stimulus bill signed by President Obama in February was a dismal failure, too. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Stoking Rage Over Health Reform Could Prove Dangerous for Republicans]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Watching the muscular tactics being used in congressional town meetings by some opponents of health-care reform, I keep thinking somebody should remind the Republican leaders who are reveling in the scenes about Bruce Alger. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[A Woman's Touch on the Supreme Court]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ When Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was explaining his decision to become one of the nine Republicans to support the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, he said it was made easier because she would not alter the ideological balance on the Supreme Court. Having her replace Justice David Souter, a regular member of the liberal bloc, would not tilt the court further in that direction, he said.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575143272" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575143272" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[House Factions Help Drive Health-Care Debate]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ When several members of the Blue Dogs, a moderate-conservative Democratic faction, met last week with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to negotiate the deal that allowed the health-care bill to move to the floor, it was a signal of their rise to prominence. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Competition in Ideas Is Improving Health-Care Bill]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Here's an irony for you: The health-care bills in Congress are getting better even as support for them diminishes around the country. It is just as well that President Obama has yielded to common sense and backed off his demand for quick action. It will take time for voters to become more comfortable with the changes he wants to make. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Stepping Beyond Political Party for Votes on Judges]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ There was never much doubt that Sonia Sotomayor would be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. Her inspiring biography and her evident legal credentials assured that President Obama's choice would become the first Hispanic and the third woman to join the high court. The 13 to 6 Senate Judiciary Committee vote this week makes that a certainty. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Our New Medical Judges?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Americans are familiar with -- if not altogether comfortable about -- unelected officials exercising great authority over our lives. The nine justices on the Supreme Court and hundreds of other jurists exert their power from the bench. The economy is managed by the Federal Reserve Board, though no one ever forced Alan Greenspan or Ben Bernanke to campaign for a vote.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575145957" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575145957" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress's 'Pay-Go' Plan Is No Solution]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:49:59 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ There is less than meets the eye to the Democrats' "pay-go bill," the lavishly touted gesture toward fiscal responsibility that the House passed on Wednesday. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama Reaches a Critical Decision Point on Health Care Reform]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Sooner than anyone had anticipated, President Obama's drive for health reform has reached a crucial decision point -- one that may well determine the fate of his biggest domestic initiative. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[No Drama at the Sotomayor Hearings, but Battle Lines for Another Day]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The combination of an over-rehearsed witness and opposition senators fighting without much ammunition robbed the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings of their expected drama. Those who watched the proceedings were left only with the occasional reminder of past Supreme Court battles and the promise of more to come. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Settling on Health Care: Circumstances May Curb Obama's Ambitions]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ President Obama's welcome home from his latest successful overseas trip is clouded by the growing doubts about his most important domestic initiative, the overhaul of the dysfunctional U.S. health-care system.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575150365" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575150365" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Robert McNamara's and Sarah Palin's Bad Exit Strategies]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:52:56 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Two vastly different public officials -- Robert McNamara and Sarah Palin -- shared the spotlight this past week, triggering fresh thoughts about one of the classic dilemmas of governmental careers: When and how do you quit? ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[For Democrats, the Perils in a Filibuster-Proof Majority]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Now that the Minnesota Supreme Court has ended the long count on the 2008 Senate race by awarding the seat to Al Franken, Democrats -- at least on paper -- have the power to pass whatever bills they want, without a single Republican vote. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Race Issue That's Not Going Away]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The implicit message, delivered by the Supreme Court majority in two of the most important decisions of the term that ended this week, is that racial discrimination is no longer as big a problem as we once thought. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[For Obama, the Glow Fades]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In a conversation the other day with a White House official, I heard something I'd never expected from an employee of Barack Obama's. "I wish," he said, "George Bush would speak up a little more."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575154627" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575154627" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bipartisan Heavy Lifters Team Up for Health Care Reform]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Fifteen years ago, when Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle was running interference for the Clintons' effort at health-care reform, his goal in life was to enlist Sen. Bob Dole, the hugely influential Republican leader, as a co-sponsor. Daschle never got him, and the enterprise crashed and burned. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Stakes for Obama This Fall]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ It was probably inevitable that the elections for governor taking place in November in New Jersey and Virginia would be seen by many people outside those states as a referendum on Barack Obama's performance as president. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Getting to Bipartisan Health-Care Reform]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The goal of the Obama White House is to come up with a health-care plan that can attract bipartisan support. The president has told visitors that he would rather have 70 votes in the Senate for a bill that gives him 85 percent of what he wants rather than a 100 percent satisfactory bill that passes 52 to 48. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Health-Care Battle Begins to Percolate]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ While headlines talk about a "fight" over the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court that may never develop, a much bigger battle is about to break out over President Obama's No. 1 domestic priority, health care.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575158411" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575158411" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Beyond Bork? Don't Count on It]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ When a Supreme Court nominee such as Judge Sonia Sotomayor comes before the Senate for confirmation, she is promised a full, fair hearing. In fact, every nominee's path is booby-trapped by the history of previous confirmation battles. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[The Burris Ethics Challenge]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ When he was elected president, Barack Obama inherited Harry Reid as the Senate majority leader; the choice was not in his hands. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[The Republicans' Choice on Sonia Sotomayor]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ It is as close to certain as anything gets in Washington that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is on her way to the Supreme Court. What impact she will have there is far harder to predict. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama and Cheney's Worthy Debate]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ That was a rare and splendid moment when the president of the United States and the former vice president offered their sharply contrasting views on maintaining national security in back-to-back televised addresses last week.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575205342" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575205342" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[President Obama as Commander in Chief]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ No new president finds that every aspect of the job suits him at once; some duties are inevitably more comfortable than others. What we have witnessed in the past few weeks is Barack Obama trying on and fitting himself to the role of commander in chief. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama's Missed Opportunity for Budget Sense]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The mountain labored, and brought forth a mouse. Last week the administration confronted the budget of the U.S. government in the "line by line" review long promised by President Obama -- and found theoretical savings almost invisible to the naked eye. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jack Kemp's Gifts to the Republican Party]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ On the very day last week that Jack Kemp, the former quarterback, congressman and 1996 vice presidential candidate, succumbed to cancer, other Republicans were honoring the example of his life by launching a search for new ideas and broader constituencies. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[The Right Signals]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 18:27:55 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ [Editor's Note: This column was originally published on Sept. 2, 1986. David Broder today has an appreciation of Jack Kemp, who died last Saturday.]<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575209935" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4575209935" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can Detroit's Automakers Save Themselves?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ When I was in high school, my parents gave me 15 shares of General Motors stock, worth maybe $600, and a lecture on investing in America. This is a great company, they said, and now you own part of it. Hold on to it, and your investment will grow. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Arlen Specter Defects -- Again]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ It's been more than four decades since Arlen Specter, senator from Pennsylvania, earned the nickname "Specter the Defector." With his decision this week to leave the Republican Party, he confirmed that it is indeed an accurate description of his political character. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David S. Broder]]></dc:creator>
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