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Sasha, Michelle and Malia Obama walk back to The White House after attending a morning service at St. John's Episcopal Church on Oct. 11. (Kristoffer Tripplaar-Pool/Getty Images) Vincent Pastore, better known as "Big Pussy" from "The Sopranos," rocking out...

Sept. 20: President Obama, Sen. Graham, Rep. Boehner, roundtable
Transcript of the September 20, 2009 broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press," featuring President Barack Obama. Plus, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rep. John Boehner, Eugene Robinson and Roger Simon.

'Obama Magic Has Faded' -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez: PHOTO
Glenn Reynolds writes : Republicans, who were prepared to give Obama the benefit of the doubt a year ago, now can’t stand him. Independents who voted for him are deserting in droves. And Democrats don’t seem that happy either. The good news for Obama is that he doesn’t have to run for re-election for three more years, so he still has a chance to get his feet under him. But for Congress members facing Elections in a year — including but not limited to the famous...

Sept. 20: President Obama, Sen. Graham, Rep. Boehner, roundtable
Transcript of the September 20, 2009 broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press," featuring President Barack Obama. Plus, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rep. John Boehner, Eugene Robinson and Roger Simon.

Months into Obama's presidency, promise of 'change' is a slow go: PHOTO
On that unusually balmy Chicago night a year ago, the candidate who campaigned on what he called the "fierce urgency of now" became the president-elect who needed time.

Please, Keep Doing What You're Doing -- By: Rich Lowry: PHOTO
If you're a Republican campaign official, you have to be thinking tonight, please, Democrats, keep doing what you're doing. Please, keep governing like you can't pile up enough debt fast enough. Please, keep exposing Obama's faux moderation from the 2008 campaign for what it was. Please, keep trying to jam through an unpopular, utterly unwieldy Health-care bill sold on serial dishonesties. Please, keep dismissing your opposition as irrational and illegitimate. Please, keep up with the prickly...

I Think Bob Beckel Just Read This Verbatim in His Analysis on FNC -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez: PHOTO
This was Rush earlier today : And if Corzine loses in New Jersey, which is among the bluest of Blue States, the State-Controlled Media repeating the Obama talking points will do all it can to run interference for The White House.  The damage control spin will be that the president was heroic in his efforts to save a hopeless candidate.  "Corzine was surrounded by corruption.  He destroyed New Jersey's economy. He was enormously unpopular. But the president decided to make a...

The Associated Press: Pelosi: New health care bill is 'historic moment'
Washington — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says new Health Care legislation will make affordable, quality Health Care available to nearly all Americans and represents a historic step. Pelosi made the remarks on the West Front of the Capitol surrounded by Democratic lawmakers. The retooled Health overhaul bill she presented Thursday delivers on many of President Barack Obama's goals for reshaping the U.S. Health Care system. It represents months of negotiations to bridge differences between...

Hardball: GOP Russian-Like 'Purge' of RINOs Leading to 'Crack Cocaine of Reduced Republicanism': PHOTO
Chris Matthews, on Monday's Hardball, claimed the GOP is purging moderates from the party like it was 1930s Russia, and Newsweek's Howard Fineman said the dumping of RINOs like Dede Scozzafava in New York was leading to "the crack Cocaine of reduced Republicanism." Yes indeed it was, as Fineman noted, a night of "wild comparisons," on Hardball but after making the "purge" metaphor, Matthews actually had the nerve to call Rush Limbaugh's play-on-words joke that...

'Party in the U.S.A' for First Tweens
It may be a school night, but the First Tweens are staying up late. Michelle Obama took her daughters to a Miley Cyrus concert at the Verizon Center this evening. It's not the first time Malia and Sasha have seen the teen queen, whose hit "Party in the U.S.A." reached number one on the Billboard Pop 100 chart last Friday. On Inauguration Day, the girls and the First Lady attended the Kids Ball, where Miley Cyrus performed.

Obama's Had Year We Can Believe In
There's been plenty to quibble about over the last year, but a look at the big picture shows that President Obama has been changing the world just as he was elected to do, writes Eugene Robinson. Obama's biggest accomplishment has been averting another Great Depression, Robinson notes in the Washington Post . The president has also made historic strides in many other areas, from appointing the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice to embracing multi-lateralism and accepting scientific consensus...

GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ - Yahoo! News
Washington – Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey , a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year . Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell's victory in the Virginia Governor's race over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and moderate Republican Chris Christie's ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine...

Obama plan swaps cash for ‘change’ in education
WASHINGTON — Using Stimulus dollars as bait, President Barack Obama is coaxing states to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they compete for $5 billion in school reform grants, the most money a president has ever had for overhauling schools.