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Dana Milbank |
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Dana Timothy Milbank (born April 27, 1968) is a columnist for The Washington Post.
He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and the secret society Skull and Bones. He is a graduate of Sanford H. Calhoun High School in Merrick, New York. He has been married since 1993 to Dona Lynn DePasquale.
Milbank covered the 2000 US Presidential election and the 2004 US Presidential election. He also covered US President George W. Bush's first term in office. After Bush won the 2000 election, Karl Rove asked the Washington Post not to assign Milbank to cover White House news. In 2001, a pool report penned by Milbank which covered a Bush visit to the US Capitol generated controversy within conservative circles. According to Milbank, the nickname given to him by the president is "not printable in a family publication."
Milbank writes "Washington Sketch" for the Post, an observational column about political...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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The media ♥ Newt Gingrich - — Dear Newt: — These are difficult times for you, no doubt, and we understand that people sometimes say things they don't really mean. We hope that explains your cruel comment about us here in Orlando this week. — “All of our friends in the news media … |
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37 days ago |
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Mitt Romney out of control - — MANCHESTER, N.H. — If this is Mitt Romney's idea of a victory rally, one shudders to think what would have happened if he had lost the Iowa caucuses. — The day after his impossibly thin eight-vote victory, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination flew … |
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39 days ago |
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Rick Santorum's curious closing argument - — POLK CITY, Iowa — Nothing fires up a crowd like cloture. — Rick Santorum, the man who has improbably become a contender in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses, was making his closing argument to a sea of TV cameras here on Monday when he swerved into a thicket of Senate trivia. |
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64 days ago |
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Barney the bully: Congressman Frank's other legacy - — The morning after his retirement announcement, Rep. Barney Frank scored an interview on NBC's “Today” show, gaining the opportunity to act as an elder statesman in front of a TV audience of millions. Instead, the Massachusetts Democrat chose to quarrel with the interviewer. |
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71 days ago |
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Jon Kyl's search-and-destroy mission - — Jon Kyl is different from you and me. — In the days following Hurricane Katrina, the nation was reeling over the death and destruction in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast. But Kyl, now the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, saw opportunity … |
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76 days ago |
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Washington Sketch: Republican senators do an about-face on judicial filibusters - — In their quest to thwart President Obama, Republicans do not fear the hobgoblin of consistency. — For much of this decade, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, now the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee … |
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81 days ago |
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Obama's world record - — It sounds tailor-made for a GOP ad: — Unemployment hits 9.4 percent. President Obama flies to France. — Joblessness reaches 9.7 percent. Obama jets off to Denmark. — The rate of those out of work soars to 10.2 percent. Obama packs his bags for Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea. |
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84 days ago |
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Washington Sketch: Gingrich is no longer conservative about showing his religion - — It says much about the transformation of the Republican Party that even Newt Gingrich is now carrying the cross. — When Gingrich came to power 15 years ago, his Contract With America was a document … |
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88 days ago |
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No one said freedom was pretty - The call to arms went out last week. - — The call to arms went out last week. — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who made her name suggesting that Barack Obama and other Democrats have “anti-American” views, appeared on Fox News on Friday night and urged Americans to come to Washington to protest … |
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91 days ago |
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Washington Sketch: Will elections be a referendum on Obama? - — 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. — White House press secretary Robert Gibbs votes no. … |
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