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Blog Entries for Thursday, April 30
Kentucky Derby
Other than playing around with the kids in the back yard this weekend, there is only one place I would rather be, and that's in the stands at Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby. Oh yeah, there are too many people there, and I would probably lose money, but it ...
Congress & The BCS
Spring football practice must be just about finished across the country, which means it must be time for the Congress to start yakking about a college football playoff and the Bowl Championship Series. Today, a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will look at the BCS, hearing from ...
Credit Card Momentum
While the White House lost a Senate vote yesterday on the mortgage cramdown issue, backers of a credit card reform bill won an easy victory in the House. The plan to rein in some controversial billing practices of the credit card industry - a bill known as the Credit Card ...
A White House Setback
It was almost poetic timing - on the 101st day of the Obama Administration - as the Senate rejected plans from the White House to let bankruptcy judges alter the terms of a mortgage to help people facing home foreclosure. The mortgage and banking industries fought this hard for weeks, ...
Obama Acts On Autos
President Obama announced today that talks had failed to find a way to stave off bankruptcy, as Chrysler will now file for Chapter 11. The White House put out this press release on what the administration is doing. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EMBARGOED UNTIL ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, April 29
Credit Card Bill of Rights
Today the U.S. House will vote on a bill designed by Democrats that would give consumers more protections in dealings with their credit card companies. Instead of going back through all the arguments, I thought I would give you a rundown of the amendments that will be offerred today in ...
Border Stays Open
There was very little hedging yesterday at a Senate hearing on how the feds will deal with the issue of closing the border with Mexico over the swine flu outbreak. It probably isn't going to happen. The outright rejection of the idea by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and a ...
The Next 100 Days
A few hours before President Obama held his third prime time news conference, the House and Senate laid the groundwork for what comes next this year, by approving a $3.4 trillion budget framework. That plan sets the outlines of the debate on budget and tax issues, and will also be ...
Obama Newser Postgame
The third prime time Obama news conference went smoothly for the President, as he defended the work of his first 100 days and took another swipe at his predecessor over torture. Mr. Obama defended his efforts so far on the economy, and professed himself pleased with his administration's record - ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, April 28
The Magic Sixty
Just because Sen. Arlen Specter switched to the Democrats doesn't mean that it's smooth sailing here on out from Majority Leader Harry Reid. Specter will likely vote with Democrats on a number of issues, but as he said he's not going to be an "automatic" 60th vote, just because he ...
Obama News Conference
The big event tonight will be the third prime time news conference of the Obama Presidency, as he once again lays claim to an hour of network TV. It is an unusually aggressive press conference schedule, especially when compared to the last President, who didn't have a third prime time ...
Mexican Border Rumblings
So far, the calls from Congress to stop air travel between the United States and Mexico are limited, as are the demands the close the border because of the swine flu outbreak. But that could still change. At the first Congressional hearing on the swine flu outbreak, Sen. Kay Bailey ...
All About Arlen
Sen. Arlen Specter's surprise switch to the Democratic Party raises two questions. What were his motives and what does this say for national Republicans. As for why Specter switched, he was pretty honest about it. His polls showed him losing the GOP primary to a former Congressman who is most ...
Specter Switches
It's not often someone drops a bombshell on the U.S. Senate, but that's what happened as Sen. Arlen Specter switched parties. Senators in both parties seemed stunned by the news, as many had thought Specter would simply remain in the GOP, where he has fought with his own party over ...
Blog Entries for Monday, April 27
The News Media's Future
Neal Boortz and I chatted about an issue yesterday that's much on my mind these days, the future of the newspaper industry. I wonder whether the future is the news media's past. When you look back at American political history, you quickly find that newspapers didn't so much report the ...
Obama Swine Flu Story
There's been some talk out there about how a tour guide for Barack Obama in Mexico dropped dead from the swine flu the other day. Now we've supposedly got the answer. Frankly, the White House Press Secretary handled the issue awkwardly at yesterday's briefing with reporters, which only created more ...
Swine Flu Travel
As the Obama Administration issued travel alerts about going to Mexico yesterday, there were a few voices in Congress urging a complete shutdown of air flights and even the land border between the U.S. and its southern neighbor. "Mexico is the origin of this outbreak and we need to cut ...
Echoes of Nine Eleven
I experienced a small bit of Nine Eleven when I watched the smoke from the Pentagon and when I ran out of the Capitol a few minutes later. So yesterday, I froze when I saw pictures of an Air Force One type plane flying low over Manhattan. If you weren't in New ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, April 26
Swine Flu
Mention swine flu in a political context, and all I can think about is the troubles it presented the Gerald Ford Administration in 1976. Now swine flu has landed in the lap of President Obama. In a special Sunday briefing at the White House, federal officials detailed an extensive set ...
Washington, D.C. Protests
I'm sure you were glued to your television over the weekend or spending time reading stories in your newspaper about the demonstrations in DC that led to hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and multiple arrests. What? You didn't know about the big protests here? This weekend, hundreds of protestors ...
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