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...McMahon says the independence he showed on health care, bucking the party line on reform despite enormous pressure from party leaders, is exactly the kind of spirit that appeals to Staten Islanders. He swept into office with 61% of the vote in 2008, in part because of the Democratic wave that year and in part because of the doings of Vito Fosella, his GOP predecessor. Fosella was forced to resign after news broke that he had a mistress and love child in Virginia. The Cook Political Report rates the district R+4, meaning it leans Republican. And with...
...that the cost of exacting retribution on McMahon may be the loss of his House seat. Congressman Anthony Weiner, a fellow New York Democrat, stepped in to fill Quinn's seat at the fundraiser, showing his support for McMahon, even though Weiner was a strong supporter of health care reform. "Representative Weiner and Representative McMahon came to different conclusions about the health care bill," says Dave Arnold, a Weiner spokesman. "The Congressman expects that there may be other times in Representative McMahon's long career in Congress that they will agree and disagree in the future...
...policy matter, Kaufman's prediction is heavily debated among economists. But as politics, his critique threatens to undermine the White House's finely tuned election-year story line. To hear President Obama or his aides tell it, the coming Senate debate on financial regulatory reform will offer a clear choice to voters this fall between most Democrats who are defending the interests of Main Street and most Republicans who are in the pocket of Wall Street. Kaufman, by contrast, argues that neither party has yet shown much seriousness about undoing decades of deregulation, and nonregulation, that created the conditions...
...limousine and is driven past the Forbidden City - a moment that can seem quixotic to Westerners, as if the American President crossed the Delaware River wearing a tricorn hat every 10th anniversary of the winter of 1776. But the Chinese know that such symbols matter. Amid the uncertainty of reform, they sketch a confident line: Look where we came from. Look where we are going...
...country that runs on contradictions, whether it is the market socialism that now produces record economic growth or the plans for giant green cities, an idea that seems as likely as healthy cheeseburgers. This is a nation where party élites who have done well during the era of reform now complain ever more loudly about the ruling Communist Party. Split, ambitious, miraculous at times, but stretched on that line between past and future - this is China today, hoping for more explosive change without, well, an explosion...