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Opinion: Memo to Dems -- Tea Party Attacks Won't Fly

(Sept. 24) -- "Obama Advisers Weigh Ad Assault Against the G.O.P" was the early page-one headline in The New York Times the other day. Ah, but this wasn't just any old "ad assault." No, this one was an assault against the dreaded tea party. The goal, according to the story, would be to "cast the Republican Party as all but...

Tea Party-Backed O'Donnell Wins Upset in Delaware

WILMINGTON, Del. (Sept. 14) -- Conservative activist Christine O'Donnell earned a stunning victory in Delaware's Republican Senate primary Tuesday, riding a wave of tea party anger and advertising dollars to oust U.S. Rep. Michael Castle. O'Donnell's shocking win gave new energy to the tea party movement, which targeted...

Who Has What It Takes to Replace Rahm Emanuel?

WASHINGTON (Sept. 8) -- Let the guessing game begin. The news that Chicago "Mayor for Life" Richard Daley would not run for a seventh term was a shocker. Instant speculation that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, a former congressman from Chicago, may step down to run for the job was not. White House spokesman...

Stimulus to Cost $27 Billion More Than Original Pricetag

WASHINGTON (Aug. 24) -- President Barack Obama's massive stimulus measure has created or saved as many as 3.3 million jobs and continues to boost economic growth in the second half of 2010, but it's come at a higher pricetag than originally billed. Congressional analysts released new figures Tuesday estimating that the...

Opinion: Where Did All Those 'Green Shoots' Go?

(Aug. 13) -- In an Aug. 2 op-ed headlined "Welcome to the Recovery," Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that "we are on a path back to growth." Eight days later, the Federal Reserve issued a report saying the "pace of recovery in output and employment has slowed in recent months." The next day the Dow tumbled 265...