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...President's economic plan, but the Vice President's arrant candor is a quality to be appreciated, not mocked. Teddy Awards are also hereby bestowed on Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates, who courageously joined this Administration despite being, respectively, a fierce political opponent of the President's and a Republican. Upon arrival, Clinton showed passionate intent to reform long-neglected foreign aid programs, a non-headline-grabbing crusade that is essential to the military's counterinsurgency strategy; Gates took on wasteful weapons systems with impish glee and thereby placed emphasis where it always should be - on the troops...
Across the aisle, in Teddy Roosevelt's Republican Party, courage - and comity - was hibernating. But Senator Lindsey Graham's intelligence and independence have won him Teddys in the past, and he was never more deserving than this year, when he faced down his home-state party on climate change and the need for civility in politics. He also showed creativity in his efforts to come up with a legal code for terrorist detainees, and personal courage by spending his annual three-week Air National Guard stint in Afghanistan, studying the prison at Bagram. Usually, journalists don't qualify for Teddy...
Despite the worldwide headlines, Parker's victory will have little resonance on a statewide scale. Houston is a place where Republicans like Governor Rick Perry and his primary challenger, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, go for fundraisers, not votes. Indeed, the moderate GOP votes that Parker won may come at a price for Republicans in primary races. Candidates endorsed by Log Cabin Republicans, a GOP gay-rights lobby, have come under fire from noted anti-gay campaigners, including Houston physician Steven Hotze, whose political action committee sent out a last-minute anti-Parker flyer. Hotze is also reported to have pressured...
...Houston's business leadership. An African American, Locke could have pulled key support from the black community but ran a "pretty bad campaign," according to Murray. The late revelation that two members of his finance committee had supported Hotze's anti-gay PAC did not help Locke with moderate Republican voters, who saw the issue as not central to the vote. The business establishment, which originally felt that Parker could not win, cooled to their chosen candidate as the runoff campaign evolved, Murray says, and Parker was able to win the race 53% to 47%. Turnout was also low - just...
...It’s become increasingly unrepresentative of the constituency of Idaho,” he said, adding that the strong conservative stance of the Republican party has “opened a window for a Democrat, as long as that Democrat is a moderate...