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Obama replants goal posts in America's midfield

...strategy that worked for Ronald Reagan when he compromised on taxes, spending and immigration in the 1980s. The Republican president made concessions that would have been savaged by his party had they come from someone with less-stellar conservative...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-02-03/obama-replants-goal
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...discrimination against people with disabilities. The treaty is a model of the Americans with Disabilities Act which Republican President George H.W. Bush signed into law in 1990.What made this so embarrassing is that former Republican Sen. Bob...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2012-12-13
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No to disabilities

...discrimination against people with disabilities. The treaty is a model of the Americans with Disabilities Act which Republican President George H.W. Bush signed into law in 1990.What made this so embarrassing is that former Republican Sen. Bob...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2012-12-13/no-disabilities
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Poverty, inequality aren't as bad as U.S. government says

...be fashioned to work even better.One option is to strengthen the Earned Income Tax Credit. It began under one Republican president (Gerald Ford), was improved by another (Ronald Reagan), and was made refundable by a Democrat (Bill Clinton...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2012-09-21/poverty-inequality-
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Obama's health care overhaul turns into a sprint

...helping states carry out the law. "But we are on a very positive trajectory." Instead of being dismantled by a Republican president and Congress, Obama's law is now on track to take its place alongside Medicare and Medicaid. The action starts...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-11-08/obamas-health-care-overhaul-turns-sp
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Bait and switch on Obamacare

...This is like renewing the license of a serial drunk driver.Roberts joins a long line of justices nominated by Republican presidents, beginning with Earl Warren, who agreed with the liberal wing of the court on cases favored by the Left. Rarely...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2012-07-03/bait-and-switch-obamac
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Capital is fruit of labor

...wage earner. Nothing could be further from the truth. As evidence I submit the following words which Lincoln, a Republican president, presented as part of his first annual message to Congress on Dec. 3, 1861. "Labor is prior to, and independent...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2012-07-20/capital-fruit-labor
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Big-name no-shows for the GOP, Dem conventions

...I'm excited to hear them," says Palin, McCain's running mate in 2008. Most of the Bush clan - including Republican Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush - will skip the trip to Tampa. So will former Vice President Dick Cheney...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-08-16/big-name-no-shows-gop-dem-convention
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George McGovern dies; lost 1972 presidential bid

...had done so. It was a campaign in 1972 dishonored by Watergate, a scandal that fully unfurled too late to knock Republican President Richard M. Nixon from his place as a commanding favorite for re-election. The South Dakota senator tried to...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-10-21/george-mcgovern-dies-lost-1972-presi
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Another Obama fiasco

...They are Americans who probably care for the country. However, others do. President Hoover was the smartest Republican president ever, some say the smartest president ever. I believe that there were a couple that were smarter. However...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2012-10-21/another-obama-fiasco
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