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Dana Milbank's Washington Sketch looks at the political scene in the White House, Congress and throughout the nation's capital.


Obama's Big Fat Greek Setting
DENVER, Aug. 28 It was a ceremony fit for the gods.

Live, From Golden, Colo., It's Al-Jazeera
GOLDEN, Colo., Aug. 27 Deep divisions, bad feelings. Tensions that threaten to boil over during this week's gathering in Colorado.

For One More Night, It's Hillary Clinton's Party
DENVER, Aug. 26 At noon on Tuesday, two young men walked onto the podium at the Democratic National Convention carrying four women's suit jackets -- red, orange, light blue and teal -- and holding each one up to the lights to see which would look best in the hall.

Where Everything Is Recycled and Sustainable, Including t...
DENVER, Aug. 25 Most political conventions begin with the fall of the gavel. The 2008 Democratic convention began in the "downward dog" position.


DANA MILBANK
Dana Milbank is away. Washington Sketch will resume when he returns.

Outspoken Pawlenty Auditions for Role of Mr. Discretion
Tim Pawlenty is an uncommonly forthright man.

At Recess, a Little One-Sided Dodgeball
House Republicans can't seem to make up their minds.

Problems Bigger Than Bridges and Tubes
It was a tender moment between the Senate's two oldest members: one infirm, the other indicted.


President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour
Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee.

Kinda Sorta Impeaching the President
"It seems that we are hosting an anger management class," Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas told his colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee yesterday morning.

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