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Blog Entries for Wednesday, December 24
Oops!
Someone at the Justice Department had a busy Christmas Eve, and was probably having a big drink after the White House had to do an about face on a grant of clemency issued by President Bush this week. Evidently a lot of people were not pleased with the decision, as you can ...
Christmas at Camp David
Here is the menu for the Bushes final Christmas celebration at Camp David, as released by the White House on Christmas Eve. THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF THE FIRST LADY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 24, 2008 CHRISTMAS MENUS AT CAMP DAVID The Bushes will ...
Blog Entries for Monday, December 22
Obama's Hawaii Retreat
I figured it wouldn't take long for something to happen on Obama's Hawaii vacation. Now we've got a papparazzi pec shot and the disappearing real estate listing. First, while the pool reporters were cooling their jets in the van outside the Obama compound, some guy with a telephoto lens walked ...
Franken Lead Now 48 In Minnesota
The Senate Race That Will Not End is evidently going to get even closer on Tuesday, as Minnesota elections officials will add in ballots that had challenges against them withdrawn. Officially, Democrat Al Franken leads Sen. Norm Coleman by 251 votes, but when the waived challenges are added in, that ...
Happy Holidays To All
After a full year of Political Action, I'm going to follow the lead of Barack Obama and George W. Bush and take a few days off. Unfortunately, I don't have a secluded compound to go to like Obama in Hawaii or Bush at Camp David. Maybe I'll hit the Powerball ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, December 21
Auto Bailout Winners & Losers
Now that we've had the weekend to hash through the auto bailout announcement made last Friday by President Bush, it's time to think about whether there were winners and losers in that aid plan for General Motors and Chrysler. It might be that the one automaker which didn't take any ...
Inaugural Tickets In Limbo
Each member of the House and Senate gets a certain number of tickets to the Obama Inaugural to dole out as they see fit. So what do you do with the tickets if there isn't someone in a U.S. Senate seat right now? That's the conundrum for Inaugural officials, who ...
Sen. Al Franken?
The vote counting continues this week in Minnesota, where Democrat Al Franken now leads incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman by 251 votes. Franken took the lead for the first time last week, after the race had gotten as close as a two vote edge for Coleman on Thursday night. More ...
Official Washington Downshifts
Just like most of the places where you work, things in the Political World are slowly grinding to a halt, as the Holidays take over. Over the weekend, President Elect Barack Obama and his family jetted to Hawaii to get a last bit of relaxation before moving to Washington, D.C. ...
Blog Entries for Friday, December 19
White House Bailout Background
Here is the news release from the White House on today's $17.4 billion bailout for General Motors and Chrysler. Financing Assistance To Facilitate The Restructuring Of Auto Manufacturers To Attain Financial Viability Conditioned Loans To The Domestic Auto Industry Will Enable Vital Restructuring, While Protecting The American Taxpayer Today, ...
Obama On The Auto Bailout
The following statement was released from President Elect Barack Obama on his reaction to the $17.4 billion auto bailout plan announced today by President Bush: "Today's actions are a necessary step to help avoid a collapse in our auto industry that would have devastating consequences for our economy and our ...
GM and Chrysler Get Some Dough
After a lot of hemming and hawing, President Bush came through for two US automakers today, extending $17.4 billion in emergency loans to keep General Motors and Chrysler from going belly up. It was a move that President Bush said he would not have made if the economy was doing ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, December 18
A Managed Bankruptcy?
As we wait another day to see if there is going to be a deal between the White House and two US automakers, an interesting idea was put up front and center by the Bush Administration. We've all heard the Big Three US automakers say there is no way they ...
Last Minute Political Shopping
You have to hand it to both parties these days, they are coming up with a myriad of ways for you to express your political sentiments, even when there's no election in sight. You probably remember the Barack Obama Limited Edition Holiday Mug earlier this month. Well, I didn't act ...
Who Says Your Vote Doesn't Count
One thing I've really come to dislike in my 25 years of reporting is when I hear people say they didn't vote, because their vote "doesn't matter." Tell that to the State of Minnesota. After a third day of reviewing disputed ballots in the Senate race between GOP incumbent Norm ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, December 17
The Obama Citizenship Conspiracy, Part 3
My email inbox is still smoldering from my blogs the last two days on the Conspiracy Theory that Barack Obama is not a US citizen. So, let's do it again. First, we should talk about the real news that occurred on Wednesday, as Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy rejected two more ...
The Squeeze Is On
I was wondering how long it would take U.S. automakers to start taking some drastic moves to save their companies, after talking for weeks about how bad their financial outlook was. We may finally be seeing some of those near desperate moves. Chrysler - which said it needed $7 billion ...
A Big Stimulus Package
The leaks on Capitol Hill over the past day plus are that Barack Obama is thinking very big when it comes to an economic recovery plan, maybe as much as $850 billion or more. While that may sound like a lot of money (and it is) there are a group ...
Inaugural Program Announced
The chieftains in charge of the Inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States have released their schedule for the January 20th event. The order of the program will be as follows: Musical SelectionsThe United States Marine Band Musical SelectionsThe San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, December 16
Inaugural Musings From DC
We've now moved under the five week mark until Inauguration Day on January 20, and this city is a hilarious combination of Fear and Loathing about the big day. One of my former Capitol Hill colleagues stopped by yesterday to give a visiting big shot reporter a quick in person ...
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