Excerpts from President Barack Obama's Address to the Nation on the End of Combat Operations in Iraq

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Published Aug. 31, 2010 at 5:05 p.m.

“But this milestone should serve as a reminder to all Americans that our future is ours to shape if we move forward with confidence and commitment. It should also serve as a message to the world that the United States of America intends to sustain and strengthen our leadership in this young century.” ... *** ... “At every turn, America’s men and women in uniform have served with courage and resolve. As Commander-in-Chief, I am proud of their service. Like all Americans, I am awed by

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GOP: Iraq success came despite Obama

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Published Aug. 31, 2010 at 3:26 p.m.
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House Republican leader John Boehner will lay out a "prebuttal" ahead of President Barack Obama's prime time speech on Iraq Tuesday night ...

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Harriet Miers' Ghost Haunts McConnell, Republicans

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Published May 14, 2010 at 7:24 a.m.

Congressional Republican leadership opened up a new line of attack on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan Wednesday. But once again, the ghost of Harriet Miers, President Bush's SCOTUS nominee, haunted their efforts ... On the day that he sat down with Obama's pick for the Court, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) went to the Senate floor to express concerns about the Solicitor General's independence from the president(s) she served ... "She's never had to develop the judicial habit of

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Lindsey Graham: John Brennan Needs To Leave His Job

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Published Feb. 14, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called on Sunday for President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser to step down, referring to John Brennan's recent statements on the administration's handling of the Christmas Day bomb plot as "mind boggling and unnerving." ... "I think it would be better to have a new person in that job," the South Carolina Republican said during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, in which he suggested that the public could no longer feel safe with him in the post ...

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Obama DNC Speech: Says He's Not Giving Up On Health Care Reform

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Published Feb. 6, 2010 at 12:11 p.m.
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WASHINGTON — Just a year after celebrating Barack Obama's inauguration, despondent Democrats on Saturday heard from their party leader who urged optimism in the face of Republicans' strong challenge to their congressional dominance ... At its winter meeting, a defiant Democratic Party worked to project a message of strength even as loyalists acknowledged the prospect of several defeats in November. The party that controls the White House typically loses seats during midterm elections at an

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"The Engine of Job Growth in America"

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Published Feb. 2, 2010 at 3:15 p.m.
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Today, President Obama held a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire to discuss new initiatives and proposals to create jobs and encourage the growth of small businesses. He outlined the details of the new Small Business Lending Fund, which will be created using $30 billion from money repaid by Wall Street banks.  ... The fund will provide capital for community banks on Main Street to lend to small businesses that are struggling to obtain loans since bank lending standards have tightened.

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White House Embraces Pointless Deficit Commission Idea

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Published Jan. 20, 2010 at 11:48 a.m.

Yesterday, even as voters in Massachusetts were immolating themselves in protest against business as usual, news broke that the White House is embracing the inane idea put forth by Senators Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) and Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), that they should be allowed to create a special blue-ribbon deficit commission that will enable lawmakers to pawn off the necessity of making tough choices on a new governing body that's designed to bog down in gridlock, entertain lobbyists, and pointlessly spend

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Ten Things That Totally Sucked About The Media In 2009

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Published Dec. 31, 2009 at 10:22 a.m.

So, earlier today, I offered up the Ten Things That Did Not Suck About The Media in 2009 ... You know what's coming now! The stuff in 2009 that straight up sucked canal water! Let's hit it and quit it ... CHRIS MATTHEWS' "OH GOD" MOMENT ... Back in February, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal provided the rebuttal to an address from President Barack Obama, where he would go on to express his passion for not paying attention to volcanoes ... If you were watching MSNBC that night, you were treated

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Andy Martin, GOP Senate Candidate, Accuses Opponent Mark Kirk Of Homosexuality

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Published Dec. 28, 2009 at 6:32 a.m.

If there was any question whether or not the 2010 election season was heating up, it was dispelled on Monday morning when a Republican Senate candidate from Illinois released an ad questioning whether his primary opponent is a homosexual ... Andy Martin, a noted conservative dirty trickster, put out a spot on local radio in which he pushes a "solid rumor" that fellow Senatorial aspirant, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), "is a homosexual." ... "I helped expose many of Barack Obama's lies in 2008," the ad

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Dick Durbin Won't Commit To Support Budget For Afghanistan

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Published Dec. 6, 2009 at 4:53 a.m.

One of President Barack Obama's closest allies in the Senate would not commit on Sunday to voting in favor of the proposed surge of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, saying he had outstanding questions about how serious the administration was about its withdrawal timeline ... Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told Fox News Sunday that he was "skeptical as to whether 30,000 more troops will make a difference," noting that there were now "over 200,000" troops in the country, when counting those from NATO, the

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