David Broder
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Political maxim: Cut spending, but not in my stateAug 12, 2010 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Meet Robert Gates, also known as The Leading Indicator. The defense secretary, who is noted among his colleagues for his special closeness with President Ob...
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McConnell's birthright curveAug 09, 2010 11:00 pm - It was an odd but intriguing experience to sit at a press breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor last week and listen as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel...
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The United States Senate, running on emptyAug 04, 2010 11:00 pm - Earlier this week, as the United States Senate went through the motions of debating Elena Kagan's nomination to a Supreme Court seat that almost certainly will be hers, ...
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In Delaware, civility rulesAug 02, 2010 11:00 pm - MIDDLETOWN, Del. - A lot of the mail I receive these days reads like this letter from a Milford, Utah, man, who says: "Truly, there is a lot of anger in the land, and on...
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The states as an electoral barometerJul 27, 2010 11:00 pm - In this high-stakes election of 2010, much attention naturally focuses on Republican efforts to come back in Congress and the Democrats' drive to retain their large majo...
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Telling us the obviousJul 27, 2010 11:00 pm - The news in that massive data dump provided by the dauntingly mysterious Wikileaks (who? what?) to one American and two European publications is that there is no news at...
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Kagan's path to the Supreme Court signifies the changing of timesJul 22, 2010 11:00 pm - Buoyed by a 13-6 vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Elena Kagan is on her way to the Supreme Court. The talk in Washington is what the impending elevation of the fo...
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Hope amid budget gloomJul 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Sometimes you can see events in Washington more clearly when you get out of town. Before I came here last weekend to cover the annual summer meeting of the National Gove...
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A cynical budget maneuverJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - On June 30, the Congressional Budget Office issued its long-term outlook, predicting that deficits would come down for the next few years as the need for counterrecessio...
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Henry Clay's AmericaJul 03, 2010 11:00 pm - Just as in this year, Independence Day in 1852 fell on a Sunday. But in New York City the traditional celebration was upstaged by another event. The casket bearing the r...