It takes an election to raise a peace flag. So much was made of the allegedly deteriorated relationship between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during last year’s U.S. elections — remember Republican Mitt Romney’s tour of...
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President Barack Obama with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they walk along the Colonnade of the White House in this March 5, 2012 file photo.
Obama’s Netanyahu Welcome Note: Israeli Flag of ‘Unbreakable Alliance’
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David Axelrod on 'Meet the Press' in Washington on Jan. 20, 2013.
Axelrod on the Air: NBC, MSNBC
David Axelrod shaved his moustache in a simulcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and NBC’s “Today Show.” Now he’s coming back as a paid political analyst. The Chicago-based political strategist and one-time political reporter for the Chicago Tribune who nurtured Barack...
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A campaign sign for Republican candidate for Senate Ted Cruz is reflected in the sunglasses of campaign intern Lorenzo Garcia in Houston.
Cruz Control on Immigration: Driving a Line Between Texas and Tea Party
Before anyone gets carried away with the Kumbaya dance of Sens. John McCain and Chuck Schumer promoting a comprehensive and “permanent” fix for the nation’s immigration problems, take note of what’s coming from the new senator from Texas. “I have...
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Representative Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat from Ohio, greets delegates at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sept. 4, 2012.
Kucinich to Fox: ‘Open’ to His Views
To the losers go the TV deals: This just in from The Plain Dealer and wires: Cleveland’s own Dennis Kucinich, the retired congressman and liberal firebrand, has a new assignment. FOX News contributor. Kucinich, 66, a former Cleveland mayor as well...
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Lew Throwing Cabinet Watchers for a Loop
Updated at 1:55 pm EDT Jack Lew’s signature signature is throwing some people for a loop. Reviews of the Hancock of the man likely to become the next secretary of the U.S. Treasury range from “awful” to ”awesome.” Deconstructing it,...
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Retiring Rep. Barney Frank on Capitol Hill on Jan. 3, 2013, prior to the start of the 113th Congress.
Barney Frank’s Senate Bid Backed by Petition Drive: MoveOn Member
Barney Frank broke somewhat with traditional political decorum — such as that is — with his public pitch to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat that will come open upon Democrat John Kerry’s expected confirmation by his colleagues as secretary of state. “Coach, put me in,”...
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Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner arrives at his weekly news conference on Dec. 20, 2012 on Capitol Hill.
Boehner’s Moment, Party Harmony’s Over: Plan B Yields to Plan G
House Speaker John Boehner has gone from Plan B…. “To Plan C ya’ later,” David Axelrod, the longtime consultant to President Barack Obama now leading a political institute at the University of Chicago, said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” We won’t...
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Fiscal Landslide: Nose-Pinching Time
The way around the fiscal cliff involves some nose-pinching. So says Haley Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chairman and governor from Mississippi who considered running for president this year. “I, as a Republican, I would take raising the rates...
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Former U.S. national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski speaks during a forum on U.S. and Saudi relations April 27, 2009 in Washington.
Brzezinski: Time to `Crack the Whip’ — Need Sec’y of State w/ `Influence’
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former President Jimmy Carter’s hawkish national security adviser, says that, to the rest of the world, the U.S. looks “leaderless” in the so-called fiscal cliff debate. “We look a little bit disorderly, indecisive, leaderless and that’s a real...
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Joseph "Joe" Echevarria, chief executive officer of Deloitte LLP, leaves the White House following a meeting with President Barack Obama on Nov. 28, 2012.
Deloitte CEO: `No Line in the Sand’
For all the optimistic talk of an agreement averting the “fiscal cliff” — the president, House speaker and corporate CEOs who have called on both this week voice that optimism — there is no explicit guarantee of a deal. Not...
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