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Zogby: Scandals cost Obama liberals, majority -- 'Are locusts next?'
Yesterday
Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama's scandal-filled disaster week has cost him his majority support and sapped enthusiasm for his second term....
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Obama pick to replace Holder assails House GOP on Obamacare
Yesterday
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, reported to be President Obama's pick to replace Attorney General Eric Holder, has attacked House Republican foes of Obamacare, raising new questions about the...
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Democrat Baucus warns: More to come out on IRS scandal
Yesterday
Senior Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, who recently slapped Obamacare as a "train wreck," believes that the IRS scandal is just beginning and that "a lot more" damaging information will be revealed,...
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GOP slams IRS pick to run Obamacare enforcement office
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
House and Senate Republican leaders are gagging on the administration's pick to run the IRS Obamacare enforcement office because she headed the unit that improperly probed into Tea Party groups, a...
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Conservatives snag just 17% of top college commencement speeches
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
When President Obama gave his commencement address at Ohio State University last week and admonished Americans to stop listening to the voices of cynicism and criticism, the rest of the nation's...
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Washington Secrets, Politics
Rand Paul 2016 selling out venues, raising $12,500 a day
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
The unofficial Rand Paul presidential campaign is gaining steam, selling out speech venues through June as he nears a decision to act on his popularity and officially announce a 2016 bid for the...
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Washington Secrets, Politics
Top Tea Party official: IRS tactics nearly bankrupt movement
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
Top representatives of the nation's Tea Party movement on Thursday lashed out at President Obama for using the IRS to shut down free speech and harass his enemies, claiming that the cost of...
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Gallup: Scandal-sacked Obama sinks 9 points since post-election high
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
The thrill of President Obama's reelection is gone--and now so are his highest Gallup approval ratings since right after his first election in 2008. Obama, whose approval rating was 56 percent...
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Ideological Revenue Service
By: Mark Hemingway
With three different scandals threatening to consume the White House last week—the Benghazi cover-up, the Justice Department’s seizure of the phone records of dozens of Associated Press...
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The Real Scandal
By: William Kristol
Everyone in Washington, except those in the crosshairs, likes a good scandal, and THE WEEKLY STANDARD is no exception. What’s more, in the case of the Obama administration, comeuppance is well...
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When It Rains, It Pours
By: Fred Barnes
There is no curse on the second term of presidents. When presidents lose credibility, when trust vanishes and their word is no longer accepted, they have only themselves to blame. That was true...