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...Partyer hoisted the message "Reid-McCain: Two Sides of the Same Damn Coin. Vote Them Out." Another placard featured McCain's picture with the words "No More RINOs [Republicans in Name Only] - Retire McCain." Before Palin's arrival, activists in the crowd debated among themselves whether the former Alaska governor had fallen from grace by trying to save McCain, who is facing a spirited challenge in the state's August Republican primary from former Congressman and conservative talk-show host J.D. Hayworth. Although Hayworth doesn't have the formal backing of Arizona's Tea Party movement, his campaign's animating...
Harry Reid, meanwhile, was hardly cowed by the onslaught of loathing swamping his state. After Palin finished Tea Partying in Nevada, the Senate majority leader appeared at an evening Democratic Party fundraiser in Las Vegas, featuring his old friend Al Gore as the keynote speaker. The former Vice President has not been very visible during the health care fight or its aftermath, but his remarks on Reid's behalf were passionate and compelling...
...easy to save control of Congress - and Reid's seat - in November. But the passage of health care gives the President's party confidence that they have a fighting chance to keep Palin from commanding her grass-roots army to victory. Don't be surprised if the former Alaska governor, as well as a host of politicians, pundits and the press, use martial imagery to describe events over the next seven months and to rally the troops accordingly. For Palin - and Obama, Reid and McCain - the passage of health care was not the war - it was just the opening battle...
...doubt the U.S. and Britain remain important strategic partners. But the U.K.'s one-sided obsession with the relationship has made it overestimate its influence in some areas and fail to assert itself in others. Since last July, a public inquiry into the Iraq war chaired by former civil servant John Chilcot has been hearing testimony from British politicians, military chiefs and officials involved in the decision to go to war and the planning for its aftermath. Much of the testimony so far has laid bare the way in which Washington called the shots, often ignoring British advice and excluding...
...Polls suggest that Britons may return a hung parliament, but whoever Downing Street's next incumbent proves to be, he's likely to encounter in Washington a bracing lack of sentimentality toward London. David Manning, a former British ambassador to the U.S., told the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee that President Obama "comes with a very different perspective. He is an American who grew up in Hawaii, whose foreign experience was of Indonesia and who had a Kenyan father. The sentimental reflexes, if you like, are not there." The committee concluded - and many observers of U.S.-U.K. relations agree...