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...month in office has not been kind to Republicans. In a New York Times/CBS News poll released the day before the budget speech, 79% said that the GOP should put more effort into cooperating with the President and only 17% said Republicans should stick by their principles. Indeed, a brace of polls indicated great faith in Obama, somewhat less faith in his proposed solutions, and a crushing consensus that the Republican Party seemed more interested in playing politics at a time of crisis than in behaving constructively. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a smart fellow if not yet a wise...
...also recommend to my friends to invest in Berlin," she says. "The prices you get here won't stay for long." And Technau and his friends aren't going to back down either: "We'll continue to speak up, until something will change." Seems like Berlin has to brace itself for a long battle...
...came in for the landing, I looked out the windows and remember seeing the buildings in New Jersey, the cliffs in Weehawken, and then the piers. The water was dark green and sure to be freezing cold. The stewardesses were yelling in unison "Brace! Brace! Brace...
...Next thing we heard was "Brace for impact!" - a phrase I had heard many years before as an active duty Marine officer but never before on a commercial air flight. Everyone looked at each other in shock. It all happened so fast we were astonished...
...other words, Californians need to brace for another wave of campaigning by politicians and special interest groups. "We're most concerned about the spending cap that would not just lock us into our broken health care system and prevent us from restoring or reforming, but it would force us to make cuts to existing services in the future," says Anthony Wright, executive director of the reform-minded Health Access California, who plans to campaign against the proposal...