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Calmes Confidently Claims GOP Repeal of Obama-Care Would Cost Money

Reporter Jackie Calmes pretends it's a certainty that Obama-care will actually save money: "Republicans also say they will try to deny money to put Mr. Obama's new health care law into effect, ...

'In a Poignant Twist,' Heroic 'Maverick' 'Independent' Russ Feingold Loses in Wisconsin

Reporter Katharine Seelye implausibly celebrates liberal Senator Russ Feingold as a fierce "maverick" independent: " ...a liberal with a fierce streak of independence who crusaded against the ...

Timothy Egan on Barack Obama, Savior of Capitalism

Former reporter Timothy Egan on Barack Obama, martyr for the free market: "For no matter your view of President Obama, he effectively saved capitalism. And for that, he paid a terrible political ...

Alleged Humor Writer Gets Bitter: 'John Boehner Cries. He's Not the Only One'

"Crib Sheet" columnist Henry Alford gets personal in the Styles section: "Pranksters hijack Sarah Palin's and Glenn Beck's Facebook pages. The giveaway was all the correct grammar."

State-by-State Slant: Wyoming, Utah Both Shifted 'Even Further to the Right'

In the paper's 2010 state-by-state rundown of election results, "conservative" labels topped "liberal" ones by a margin of 25-2, including identical descriptions by two different reporters of two ...

In the Two Weeks Before Horrible Election Day for Democrats, NYT's 'Caucus' Tilted 3-1 Toward the Losing Party

The Times ran 52 political briefs in its "Caucus" section over the last two weeks of the campaign, a horrible one for Democrats. Yet only six of those 52 stories were pro-Republican, while 19 ...

Morning After Voter Rejection of Obama-Care, Stolberg Claims Voters 'Don't Want' GOP to Stop It for Fear of 'Gridlock'

Sheryl Gay Stolberg: "One big question is whether Republicans will try to hack away at the bill by gumming up the works through the appropriations process and stopping [Obama-care's] provisions ...

Former Food Writer Provides Post-Election Comfort Food for Liberals

Kim Severson: Unlike the 2008 election, when liberals celebrated the politics of hope and change to address the country's problems and some conservatives began to embrace what would become the Tea ...

Zernike Thinks Tea Party Blew It By Fostering 'Concerns of...Extremism'

The paper's Tea Party reporter goes to great lengths to argue that the public is not on their side on taxes, spending, or Obama-care: "And just as Tea Party supporters do not always agree on what ...

Cold Water in the Tea Party Teapot: John Boehner Faces 'Long Shadow of 1994'

After a huge GOP victory, reporter Jennifer Steinhauer paints a daunting picture of Speaker in waiting John Boehner's task: "Relying on his decades of experience with the inner workings of the ...
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