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The elusive Team Obama The elusive Team Obama

It's proving difficult to peer inside Obama's still tightly closed Cabinet. But so far his presidential transition has looked deliberate and impressive.
  • The White House's Fannie and Freddie "one-finger-salute"

    A former Republican lawmaker says the White House and Greenspan sabotaged legislation aimed at fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
  • Change beyond the ballot

    Primary season sure is exciting, but history tells us that you can't just vote for change.
  • "Where are what?"

    A White House study says 473 days of emails have gone missing. The White House says it isn't necessarily so.
  • America's trinity of terrorism

    The network of U.S.-sponsored terrorism now on global display relies on death squads, disappearances and torture.
  • Feminists want just a female prez?

    Yes, at least according to the New York Times' analysis of "years of feminist thinking."
  • Are you sexually jealous of Hillary Clinton?

    How American women's lust for Bill Clinton might keep his wife from the White House.
  • Dan Rather stands by his story

    His lawsuit will attempt to show that CBS tried to suppress the report on Bush's National Guard Service and the Abu Ghraib abuses.
  • Bush's stairway to paradise

    Hoping that history will somehow vindicate him, the president has entered a phase of decadent perversity.
  • Don't believe the surge hype

    The Petraeus road show will roll into Washington with dubious claims that troop increases have reduced violence.
  • Jenna Bush -- engaged!

    Will the White House's first daughter join the alleged bridal voting bloc?
  • No wonder they called him Turd Blossom

    Karl Rove could put fecal matter on his lapel and call it a boutonniere. Goodbye and good riddance.
  • We'll go no more a-Rove-ing

    The country takes leave of the political serial killer who tried to forge a one-party state. But don't expect the Mayberry Machiavelli to pay for his civic sins.
  • Hillary Clinton's balancing act

    She's most popular with women -- but many remain wary.
  • Will the real Hillary please stand up?

    Two new bios purport to unmask Hillary Clinton. Yet they offer few new insights and repeat tired clichés about the senator and her husband.
  • White House recognizes lesbian love child

    Anti-gay activists protest official photo of the vice president's new grandson.
  • Oil companies: High gas prices are Bush's fault

    The president's ethanol push is discouraging the industry from investing in new refinery capacity, executives say. What does the White House think of that?
  • The impertinent prince

    Bush plays naughty boy to the queen at his not-so-royal state dinner. But all those white ties couldn't hide his low poll numbers.
  • Dana Perino has very large hands

    How a "handful" of White House officials became 22 and then more than 50.
  • The Current Occupant goes for a walk ...

    He strolls down Pennsylvania Avenue, past "Stop the Torture" signs. Oh well. His approval ratings stink, but he still has Laura -- and there's always Dick.
  • Blame Bill

    Once again, Republicans are using the Clinton dodge -- he did it too! -- to justify the Bush administration's unjustified firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
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