One after another, speakers stood before thousands of loyalists and denounced the Obama administration and congressional Democrats with extravagant contempt, lifting the audience from its seats with depictions of a president who overreaches at home while shrinking from America’s duties abroad.
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When the freshman Senate class of 2004 was sworn in, its most up-and-coming stars were two basketball aficionados born in 1961. One was Barack Obama. The other was South Dakota’s John Thune, who became that year’s political giant by narrowly defeating Tom Daschle, the Senate’s Democratic leader.
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Romney, a 2008 presidential candidate who is widely expected to again seek the Republican nomination in 2012, said that President Barack Obama would call in favors and cut deals with fellow Democrats to squeak the controversial proposal through on a partisan House vote. Democrats control both houses in Congress. “They will use all that power and all that energy to bypass the will of the people,” Romney said, adding that Obama would make Democrats in swing districts “walk the plank.”
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The basic argument is that health-care reform is becoming more popular as the president takes control of the process, and Obama and the Democrats are still more popular than the Republicans on this issue.
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Hildebrand, one of President Barack Obama’s top advisers during the campaign, told CNN in an interview aired Thursday morning that there is a “real shot” Democrats “are going to get slaughtered in elections this fall if we aren’t leading the efforts to reform Washington.”
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