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Democrats and Republicans managed to work out a controversial tax-cut deal in December. Then they managed to work out a controversial spending-cut deal in April. Now they just need to work out a deal to raise the debt limit, something both sides agree needs to be done to avoid a national calamity. No problem, right? [...]
–Tension with Pakistan isn’t subsiding — “There’s no doubt [bin Laden] was protected by some in the ISI.” – but there’s no alternative to the relationship. –Obama will visit Ground Zero today. –Biden’s bipartisan deficit talks begin.
How do you react when you suspect a friend has been aiding your worst enemy? If you’re Rep. Ted Poe, you demand they prove their loyalty. “Pakistan has a lot of explaining to do. It seems unimaginable that Osama bin Laden was living 1,000 yards away from a military base in a million-dollar mansion built [...]
This is probably the most troubling sentence you’ll read today: “While I was shown a photo by another senator of what appeared to be a deceased Osama bin Laden, I do not know if it was authentic.” That was part of a statement issued on Wednesday by New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte clarifying that she [...]
I am sitting here watching Congressman Peter King lie through his teeth on CNN about the role of torture in the capture and death of Osama bin Laden. King is insisting that the initial information about the Bin Laden couriers came from “enhanced” interrogation of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and Abu Faraj al-Libbi. The New York [...]
Steve King was the first member of Congress to float the inevitable question. “Wonder what President Obama thinks of waterboarding now?” the Iowa Republican tweeted shortly after Obama announced the death of the world’s most infamous terrorist. In the days since, even as they maintain the tacit truce that bans partisan potshots in the wake [...]
President Obama told CBS News Wednesday that he would not release the death photos of Osama bin Laden, grisly images that depict the terrorist leader with a major head wound. In an interview with 60 Minutes, set to be broadcast on Sunday, the President was asked if he saw the photos. “Yes,” Obama said. Then [...]
I want to add a couple of follow-up thoughts to my post yesterday about the exact circumstances under which Osama bin Laden was killed. First, it’s clear that some people have misconstrued my post as an argument against killing bin Laden. That’s not my point. I’m more interested here in how the White House is [...]
President Obama has told CBS News that he’s decided against making public a graphic image of Osama bin Laden’s corpse. The news comes amid rampant speculation over the release of the image, fueled in part by comments from CIA Director Leon Panetta on Tuesday that suggested its release was inevitable.
It’s a long way from Abbottabad and the White House Situation Room, but in Adel, Iowa, last night, about 100 locals turned up at their town library to take the measure of a leading GOP presidential candidate, Tim Pawlenty. With President Obama enjoying a bounce in the polls, the task of knocking him out of [...]
