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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Barack and a Hard Place

by Reeve Hamilton
January 28, 2010  |  1

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Last night, President Barack Obama delivered his first State of the Union address. Because Texas is still a state in that union — sorry, secessionists — its U.S. House members were in attendance. Among them were Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, and John Carter, R-Round Rock, who listened to the same speech but, in interviews with the Tribune, came away with markedly different impressions. (You can listen to the full audio of their responses in the right-hand coluimn.)

It wasn't the predictible love from the left and ridicule from the right. "He's a good speaker," Carter said of Obama. "He's ...

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  • jpt51 wrote on 1/28/2010 11 p.m.

    In other words, Carter wants to kill reform and keep the status quo for the wealth. Meanwhile, Rs will continue to promote wedge to get the avg. Texan to beat up on each other. Why do we continue to fall for this you know what? It's time for do nothing John Carter to be put out to pasture come the next election.

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