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washingtonpost.com: Dana Milbank/staff/articles/dana+milbank/2009-11-08T05:00:00ZWashington Sketch: No shortage of Republican objections during House health-care debate2009-11-08T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-08:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/07/AR2009110703229.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

House Democrats were on the cusp of passing health-care legislation Saturday. The Republicans objected. Often.

Washington Sketch: Milbank on Michele Bachman, More2009-11-06T17:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-06:/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/11/05/DI2009110503550.html?nav=rss_liveonline

Post columnist Dana Milbank serves as the capital's foremost critic of political theater.

No one said freedom was pretty2009-11-06T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-06:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110504566.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

The call to arms went out last week.

Michael Steele on the election2009-11-05T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-05:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/04/AR2009110403118.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was doing a victory lap on the morning shows Wednesday after the GOP gubernatorial candidates won in New Jersey and Virginia.

Washington Sketch: Republicans give global-warming hearing the cold shoulder2009-11-04T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-04:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/03/AR2009110303575.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

The senators' nameplates were lined up neatly on the green felt. A row of black leather chairs awaited senatorial bottoms. The microphones were live and the water iced.

Washington Sketch: Will elections be a referendum on Obama? Depends on who wins.2009-11-03T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-03:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/02/AR2009110202873.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

So, will Tuesday's elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York be a referendum on the Obama presidency? Let us put the question to a plebiscite.

Washington Sketch Live2009-10-30T16:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-30:/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/10/23/DI2009102302927.html?nav=rss_liveonline

Washington Sketch: House Democrats' rally has a lot of salt, but little pep2009-10-30T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-30:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/29/AR2009102902920.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

As Speaker Nancy Pelosi led her House Democrats down the Capitol steps Thursday morning for a health-care pep rally, the sound system began to crank out . . . wait, that's not U2's "Elevation," is it?

Washington Sketch: Defense spending bill is exercise in waste on want-not2009-10-29T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-29:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/28/AR2009102804175.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

Not quite three weeks ago, President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. On Wednesday afternoon, he put his signature on the largest military spending plan in the history of the world.

Washington Sketch: A hostile climate for Sen. Inhofe the warming skeptic2009-10-28T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-28:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/27/AR2009102702845.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

It must be very lonely being the last flat-earther.

Washington Sketch: Harry Reid, party of one, on the health-care public option2009-10-27T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-27:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102602782.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

What Harry Reid did Monday afternoon gave new meaning to the phrase "public option."

Washington Sketch Live2009-10-23T16:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-23:/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/10/16/DI2009101601937.html?nav=rss_liveonline

Post columnist Dana Milbank serves as the capital's foremost critic of political theater.

Czar problems2009-10-23T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-23:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204015.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

October revolutions just ain't what they used to be.

A speech stuck on 'repeat'2009-10-22T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-22:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/21/AR2009102103586.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

If he were a runner, he would do ultramarathons. If he could swim, he would cross the English Channel. If he were a baseball player, he would be Cal Ripken.

Washington Sketch2009-10-21T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-21:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/20/AR2009102003211.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

"I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the future -- period," President Obama told Congress in a health-care address last month.

Washington Sketch: When breaking news is broken2009-10-20T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-20:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/19/AR2009101902988.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

Afew minutes after 11 on Monday morning, investors got a surprising bit of news on CNBC.

Washington Sketch Live2009-10-16T16:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-16:/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/10/09/DI2009100902809.html?nav=rss_liveonline

Obama's War of Few Words2009-10-16T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-16:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101503293.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

Who will fill the Afghanistan vacuum?

Washington Sketch: Rep. Die Quickly Is a Real Die-Hard2009-10-15T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-15:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101403101.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

There are no shades of gray in Alan Grayson's oratory.

Washington Sketch: Snowe's on the Other Team, but She Called the Plays2009-10-14T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-14:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/13/AR2009101301771.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

Sen. Olympia Snowe, Republican of Maine, is fast becoming the Brett Favre of the political world: She has trouble making up her mind, but she sure knows how to play ball.