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As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver his first State of the Union Address, he faces some bleak economic predictions from congressional budget analysts. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Tuesday projected slow improvements in employment and warned of an unsustainable longer-term fiscal situation against a background of rising debt. The CBO projections came as the president vows to press ahead to achieve major policy changes he says the American people expect, such as health care and financial system reform, while recognizing signals sent by voters in Massachusetts where a Republican was elected to a traditionally Democratic Senate seat. As...

Democratic election expectations were crumbling Monday after a leading Senate recruit declined to run and another lawmaker announced his retirement. Rep. Marion Berry’s (D-Ark.) departure and Beau Biden’s (D) decision not to pursue the upper chamber came after Democrats said they expected the opposite. And now the party, which has said it doesn’t expect lots of retirements, is facing the possibility of several more. It is the latest bad news for Democrats in a cycle with a growing number of open seats and candidates bowing out. Berry became the sixth House Democrat to retire from politics, and all of those...

COME ON FOLKS .... LET'S REMEMBER WHAT'S IMPORTANT THIS YEAR The Washington Times reports today that evangelical Christians are mightily upset with George Bush and could very well sit on their hands on November 2nd --- meaning they will just sit home and hold their breath and not vote. Well, isn't that special. The source of their discontent is the absence of action and blue-steam rhetoric from George Bush over this gay marriage controversy in California. The evangelicals want Bush to do something .. and now, not later. So many different comments .... so let's go. First: I realize that...