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…that still leaves out the vast majority of the white working class–well over four-fifths. And it is among these non-unionized white working class voters that Democrats have had the most…

…an unprecedented effort here to throw a spotlight on what it views as a good news story, arranging wall-to-wall interviews between journalists and normally invisible White House aides in the…

Greenspan the Partisan Kenneth Thomas of Wharton has published information that he received under the FOIA confirming what we already suspected: close coordination between the White House and Alan Greenspan….

…of the Post’s Sunday edition, support testimony by former White House counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke that the Bush administration was focused more on Iraq than the al- Qaeda terrorists blamed…

…I heard many, many staff discussions, but not three meaningful, substantive policy discussions. There were no actual policy white papers on domestic issues. There were, truth be told, only a…

…the meeting occurred in the White House Situation Room and presidential aides said earlier this week the meeting never happened. But CBS News reported last night that White House aides…

…how the White House answers such charges of inconsistencies: Asked about this apparent discrepancy [in statements regarding Clarke’s role in White House policy-making], McCormack pointed a reporter to a Clarke…

White House Insiders Take Note Paul O’Neill’s use of White House and Treasury documents was not illegal, although “had [about 140 documents] been properly marked as “classified,” they would have…

…data from their own historical budget documents. One particular White House document contains the salient information: “Historical Tables, Budget of the US”. The two tables that contain the relevant information…

…to a broad cross-section of Democrats.” I suspect Dean was just looking for a way to say “poor, rural, white voters” and this is what came out. His earlier invocation…