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...this was all to be expected. Despite the President's paramount campaign promise to end the bitter recriminations and partisan animus that have defined Washington politics for almost two decades, genuine feelings of friendship across the aisle rarely animate the contours of the debate in Barack Obama's Washington...
...well as a determination by Obama and his aides to regain the upper hand in time for the upcoming elections. It's a delicate strategy that calls for Obama to reposition himself as a bipartisan outsider fighting to change Washington even as his aides increasingly play the sharply partisan inside game. "At this critical time in our country, the people who sent us here expect a seriousness of purpose that transcends petty politics," Obama said, either unaware or unconcerned about the joke Gibbs was readying. (See pictures of Obama's State of the Union speech...
...lose much of their value. This would save a boatload of money, of course ... but one wonders whether the party that gave the world "death panels" would stand behind such an all-out assault on the financial security of the nation's most devout voters. (See pictures of the partisan reaction to Barack Obama's State of the Union speech...
...photos of the partisan reaction to Obama's State of the Union...
...very big things, we've seen party-line votes that, I'm just going to be honest, were disappointing," Obama said. "I'm ready and eager to work with anyone who is willing to proceed in a spirit of goodwill. But understand, if we can't break free from partisan gridlock, if we can't move past a politics of no, if resistance supplants constructive debate, I still have to meet my responsibilities as President...