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SOTU excerpt shows Obama will focus on inequality as theme

In excerpts from the prepared text of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech released by the White House two and a half hours beforehand, it’s clear the President is focusing on economic opportunity, and aims to reverse the income inequality trend and provide more middle-class opportunities.

Day 10: Lots of meetings, guide to debt limit problem

President Obama (and Vice President Biden) Thursday will meet with the Senate Democratic Caucus in the State Dining Room. After that, they will meet with House Republican leaders and certain House GOP committee chairs in the Roosevelt Room. Republicans have more or less dropped their Obamacare demands that shut down the government and have pivoted  

President Obama urges Congress to end government shutdown on first day of Obamacare implementation

Congress failed Monday to pass legislation that would fund the government — making this the first time the government has shut down since 1996.

Statement from President Obama on DOMA decision

Statement by the President on the Supreme Court Ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has  

Obama climate plan ignites Washington

Environmentalists hailed President Obama’s plan to force existing power plants to reduce C02 emissions,as a long overdue, just-in-time action to stop global warming now expected to easily cross the 2 degree Celsius threshold that nations had agreed was dangerous. Obama is to speak on the issue at 1:30 EST at Georgetown University. Electric power plants  

SCOTUS’ Clarence Thomas (finally) speaks: “Elites” and media “approved” first black president (VIDEO)

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the high court’s only African American jurist, hardly ever speaks in public. But he made news recently with comments that he always knew that America’s first black president would be “approved by the elites” — oh, and the media. Thomas made the statements recently in an interview at Duquesne Law  

Is Obama’s popularity at a tipping point?

Here’s a bit of political trivia from a proud history major: The first April of a second presidential term has proven to be a tipping point in the popularity of re-elected presidents. For George W. Bush and Richard M. Nixon, it was all downhill from there. For Bill Clinton (despite impeachment) and Ronald Reagan (despite  

GOP slams Obama Bay Area trip as a jaunt to “billionaire’s row” (VIDEO)

Republicans are slamming President Obama’s first post-election trip to the Bay Area — a fundraising swing around the political ATM that includes San Francisco — as a jaunt to “billionaire’s row.” The Republican response to Obama’s trip comes as the President Wednesday begins a two day trip to the Bay Area, including San Francisco and  

Billionaire Dem hits Keystone hard — in time for Obama’s visit to SF home (VIDEO)

Americans have seen rapid, dramatic shifts in political opinion on the issues of same sex marriage and immigration reform in recent months. But could climate change represent the next big political swing among Republicans and Democrats in the Beltway — and around the country? That’s what Democratic activist and billionaire Tom Steyer is betting —  

Rand Paul admits he considered using a catheter during filibuster

When nature calls, even a United States senator can’t talk his way out of it. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul concluded his filibuster to halt the nomination of  John Brennan as CIA director just under the 13 hour mark early Thursday morning to use the restroom. “There are some limits to filibustering and I’m going to have to go take