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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for June 2008
Blog Entries for Monday, June 30
Guns and Politics
It has been a week now since the US Supreme Court made its landmark ruling on the Second Amendment, deciding by a 5-4 majority that a handgun ban in Washington, D.C. was unconstitutional. Since then, the Political Ship of State hasn't changed course, much if at all. For years, gun ...
Energy Speculators In the Bullseye
If there were about a thousand people in special colored coats who could be rounded up from trading floors around the world and run out of town on a rail, it would be oil futures market "speculators" who are being blamed for running up the price of oil. "Causing this ...
Is Oil Shale an Energy Answer?
One of the items that has come up in the debate over energy policy in the Congress is the idea of getting fuel out of rocks in the west of the United States. The issue is most commonly referred to "oil shale," which has always been a somewhat expensive plan ...
Happy July Fourth
Happy Birthday to the United States of America. Hopefully you can have a good time without having politics intrude upon your July Fourth celebration. But for many, politics is intertwined with this date and always will be. History from the early years of the US show that July 4th celebrations ...
Off to Foreign Capitals
For the second time in the last two weeks, John McCain is going out of the country, as he heads today to Colombia and then goes to Mexico on Wednesday to meet with world leaders. Back on June 20, McCain spoke in Ottawa during a visit to the Canadian capital. ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, June 29
In Search of a Campaign Definition
This part of the 2008 Presidential race may not get much attention in the months ahead. Or it could be seen as When McCain Defined Obama. As Barack Obama has started to move back towards the middle after locking up the Democratic nomination, he began to alter some of ...
Blog Entries for Friday, June 27
More Maneuvers on Guantanamo Bay
The legal maneuvers over the rights of war on terrorism detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base continue today, as federal circuit court judges in Washington, D.C., grapple with the real-life effects of last month's Supreme Court ruling on the matter. In June, the Court held that detainees Guantanamo have ...
Fundraiser In Chief Hits The Road
While Congress is out of town this week, President Bush will use the down time to hit two states today and raise some money for the campaigns of Republican candidates in November. Mr. Bush's first stop is in Mississippi, where Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) is running to fill out the ...
The Energy Debate, July Version
As the House of Representatives returns to work today from a 10-day break, it will be interesting to see in coming days just how spooked members of both parties got while back home on the issue of high oil and gasoline prices. Before the July 4th break, Democrats had promised ...
Senate Battles On Terror Wiretaps
The Senate will try today to wear down liberal opponents of a deal on terrorism surveillance legislation, which also features another political dance by Barack Obama on a major issue. Critics of the plan that renews terror laws have no chance to stop this bill, but they prevented approval of ...
The Senate Resumes A Housing Fight
As the U.S. Senate reconvenes today after a July 4th break, Senators have a host of major issues to deal with in this first week, after being unable to finish them in late June. First, Senators will try again to limit debate on a major housing bill that deals with ...
Can Congress Deal on Energy?
As Congress returns to work this week after a July 4th break, much of the political focus will be on energy legislation as both sides angle for advantage in this election year. This raises a very legitimate question - can the Congress actually cut a deal on energy issues that ...
Congress Gets An Earful
For those members of Congress who actually stay in their districts over the July 4th break, there will likely be one major issue on the minds of most voters, and that's high oil and gasoline prices. Lawmakers in both parties have an array of talking points and arguments at their ...
The US Tries to Stem the Oil Tide
Starting this week, the US will halt deposits of oil into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to boost world supplies and hopefully bring down oil prices. The plan was approved by Congress in May, when oil prices were at a then-record of $125/barrel. Obviously the world markets weren't ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, June 26
Supreme Court Gun Politics
The next step in the gun debate will certainly be more legal action in the courts, as the National Rifle Association quickly made clear in the wake of Thursday's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down a handgun ban in Washington, D.C. But there will also be a ...
Democratic Unity In New Hampshire
I wonder if they are selling t-shirts in Unity, New Hampshire today that say "CLINTON-OBAMA *SOLD OUT* Unity Tour 2008?" Okay, just kidding. But today's get together in New Hampshire is very important on one level, because it will be the first time that we have really seen the two ...
Oil Price Politics
As members of the US House raced for the airport on Thursday, they took with them a mountain of talking points for a July 4th holiday break that mainly focuses on the runup in oil and gasoline prices. But once again, the Congressional debate didn't seem to matter one bit when it ...
A Victory For Gun Rights
The Supreme Court's ruling Thursday in the much awaited gun case of District of Columbia v Heller gave us something that's never happened before in US history, that being a clear ruling on the merits of gun rights and the Second Amendment. While the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791, ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, June 25
Obama & Clinton, Act I Scene 2
On the eve of their joint campaign appearance on Friday in Unity, New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama meet Thursday with some of her top fundraisers in Washington, D.C. While I was ready for that story to unfold, I wasn't really ready to get an email from the Hillary ...
Off In Different Directions
As Congress gets ready to head out on a July Fourth break, the two political parties continue to go in opposite directions on solutions to the recent runup in oil and gasoline prices in the United States. More hearings on Wednesday did little to bridge the partisan divide on energy ...
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