Obama Fails to Stem Middle-Class Slide He Blamed on Bush

Bloomberg
Barack Obama campaigned four years ago assailing President George W. Bush for wage losses suffered by the middle class. More than three years into Obama's own presidency, those declines have only deepened.The rebound from the worst recession since the 1930s has generated relatively few of the moderately skilled jobs that once supported the middle class, tightening the financial squeeze on many Americans, even those who are employed. 

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Obama Should Be Careful Not to Cross a Line

Brit Hume, FOX News
"There is nothing wrong with President Obama and his campaign citing the bin Laden raid as one of the successes of his administration. But Mr. Obama needs to be careful, because there is almost certainly less political gold in those hills than he may imagine," Brit Hume said on FOX News on Monday. "For example, the Gallup Organization asked people just after the raid last year who they thought should receive 'a great deal of credit' for it. Eighty-nine percent, as you can see, said the military. Sixty-two percent said the CIA. Only 35 percent said President...

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Failed Bombings in Thailand, India Indicate Weaknesses in Iranian Espionage

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Democratic nominees aren’t only ones waiting

There’s been much bleating and whining these days about how Senate Republicans are refusing to confirm President Obama’s nominees. But lost in all this is how the completely dysfunctional Senate is holding up Republican nominees as well.

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Can road repairs ever pay for themselves?

It’s no secret that America’s roads need fixing. About 17.4 percent of the nation’s highways, some 164,000 miles, were in poor or mediocre condition in 2008, according to the Federal Highway Administration. They needed repaving or more substantive repairs. But how big a deal is this, really?

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Election Offers a Choice, Not an Echo

Pete DuPont, Wall Street Journal
As the presidential election is just over six months away and both parties have chosen their candidates, the campaign is now fully with us. We are in a very serious and close presidential race; Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have very different viewpoints, but one thing they probably agree on is that the coming election offers a stark choice of two very different approaches to America's government, its economy and its future.

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2 More Blue Dog Democrats Fall as Coalition Members Dwindle

So long, moderates.

The number of Blue Dog Democrats serving in the House of Representatives will drop again in January 2013. A pair of conservative Democrats, U.S. Reps. Tim Holden and Jason Altmire, lost their party primary races to more liberal challengers in Election 2012.

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