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The Rose Garden: Kerry Is Just One in the Hill’s ‘Shadow’ Cabinet

By Keith Koffler
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 26, 2009, Midnight

Yes, yes, it was for the good of the country, the struggle against the Taliban and the cause of democracy in, well, Afghanistan. We all know that Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) success in persuading a grumbling, uncompliant Afghan President Hamid Karzai to reverse himself and submit to a runoff election was no more than a selfless effort to pitch in.

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February 9, 2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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