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Pelosi seen winning House party leader job
Outgoing House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared to secure the top Democratic leadership spot for next year, as the only lawmaker expected to mount a challenge acknowledged on Sunday that he will not have the support to topple her. “You know, I can add and subtract pretty well. I…
Obama acknowledges his message didn’t get through
Obama concedes in interview he ‘stopped paying attention’ to selling his message to voters President Barack Obama is acknowledging in the wake of this week’s election rout that he hasn’t been able to successfully promote his economic-rescue message to anxious Americans. Obama says in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes”…
Democrats raise prospect of ‘tweaking’ Social Security
GOP ‘quite frankly lying’ about program’s impending insolvency, DNC spokesman says Fears about the national debt among Washington insiders have reignited debate about the future of Social Security, and a Democratic spokesman on Monday dismissed calls for privatization but conceded the program may need to be “tweaked” in order to…
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