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...drop in the President's poll numbers represents a natural political process. When politicians talk about spending their political capital, they are talking about their poll numbers - and the cliché is somewhat misleading. They are actually investing their political capital, hoping for a greater return if their gamble succeeds. George W. Bush invested his capital in privatizing Social Security, and the stock tanked. Barack Obama is investing in health-care reform. We are at the point of the legislative process where all seems hopeless, but Obama should be heartened by the fact that most of his Republican adversaries oppose...
...think he was somewhat of a zealot. I don't have a problem with him pushing an agenda; it's the way he did it.' MIKE THOMAS, a doughnut-shop owner in Bay County, Florida, criticizing Dr. Jason Newsom's antiobesity campaign's slogan AMERICA DIES ON DUNKIN...
...committee has had somewhat limit jurisdiction,” he said. “We have been implementing rules that have been given by higher up jurisdiction...
...They went cheap, in other words," counters Bucharest designer Iancu Barbarasa, who blogged about the font change on his website. If he sounds somewhat bitter, there's a reason. With its attention to the curve of even a $9 lampshade, Ikea has become renowned for its understanding of good design. "Designers have always thought of Ikea as one of their own," Barbarasa notes. "So now, in a way, the design community feels betrayed...
...Brookings Institution, who conducted the Obama Administration's review of Afghanistan and Pakistan policy, says the military may simply want "to get the TTP back to where it was two years ago - a malleable force that doesn't attack the Pakistani state, and particularly not the army." A somewhat tame TTP is a useful bogeyman "to keep civilians appreciative of the need for the army to be getting resources and priority attention," Riedel adds...