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Blog Entries for Tuesday, August 31
Ethics-Congress
More ethics questions were raised about Congress in two separate stories on Tuesday, one about scholarship money doled out by a Texas Democrat and fundraising issues involving two Republicans and one Democrat. On the fundraising front, the special Office of Congressional Ethics - which acts as sort of an initial ...
Obama & Iraq
President Obama urged Americans Tuesday night to "turn the page" on the Iraq War, as he declared the end of official combat operations and also added his own call for action on the U.S. economy. From the Oval Office, where President Bush had made the decision to go to war ...
An Alaska Shocker
A week after voters went to the polls in Alaska, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) conceded defeat in her GOP primary last night, becoming the third sitting Senator to be booted out of office this year. The winner was insurgent Republican Joe Miller, a Fairbanks attorney, who benefited from Tea Party ...
Obama on Iraq
Here is the text of President Obama's speech to the nation from the Oval Office on the end of combat operations in Iraq. This was provided by the White House. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _______________________________________________________________________________________ EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY August 31, 2010 Remarks of President ...
Blog Entries for Monday, August 30
Obama-Economy
As expected, President Obama returned from his vacation with almost the same script that he left with, blasting Republicans for not allowing action on a small business jobs bill to spur economic growth. "Small business owners and the communities that rely on them, they don't have time for political games," ...
Nine Weeks Left
There are now nine weeks until Election Day and if Republicans are to maximize their victory totals, they have to find a way to put out some brush fires along the way. For example, in Florida, where state Attorney General Bill McCollum lost the GOP primary for Governor to outsider ...
Speech On Iraq
President Obama will address the nation on Iraq tonight, marking the date that he pledged to withdraw combat troops from Iraq. The speech though won't use the phrase "Mission Accomplished." Five years ago, it would have been pretty standard to have a big speech from the President on Iraq. But ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, August 29
It's The Economy
While President Obama will make a prime time speech from the White House tomorrow on Iraq, the focus by the end of the week will have turned decidedly to the economy and its election impact. Today, the President will make remarks on the economy after a White House meeting with ...
What Does It Mean?
Voters continue to send Washington, D.C. conflicting messages as primary results over the past week showed both contempt and election love for those already in the Congress. Last week, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin came back from a string of defeats to put insurgent Republican candidate Joe Miller on the ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, August 19
On The Vineyard
President Obama and his family are on Martha's Vineyard for the next nine days, but the press isn't getting many details of what's going to happen during their vacation. Here was some of what Deputy White House Press Secretary Bill Burton told reporters on Air Force One. MR. BURTON: ...
A Mosque Week
It was a week ago today that President Obama made his first comments about the controversial mosque near Ground Zero in New York, and the issue is still bubbling around the Political World. It's about this time in any election year that you can talk about who is winning the ...
The Clemens Indictment
Congress has taken a lot of flak for holding hearings about the use of steroids and more by Major League Baseball players. Now that probe has brought perjury charges against none other than Roger Clemens. Congress has taken a lot of flak for holding hearings about the use of steroids ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, August 18
More Mosque Talk
The political dustup over the proposed mosque near Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan kept bubbling along on Wednesday, as both parties pointed the finger at each other over the election year battle. On the campaign trail, President Obama told reporters he had "no regrets" about addressing the subject last Friday ...
Back To The Vineyard
For a second straight year, President Obama and his family will be heading back to Martha's Vineyard for a summer vacation, leaving this afternoon for a ten day trip to the tony Massachusetts island. The White House has said little about the trip, refusing yesterday to even confirm or deny ...
Stimulus Broadband Pork
The Obama Administration on Wednesday issued another $1.8 billion in stimulus money that will go to spur the development of high speed broadband initiatives nationwide. Here is the list of projects approved under the plan, which was released by the White House.The goal is to expand the availability of broadband ...
Pelosi on NYC Mosque
Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a new written statement this afternoon about the controversy involving the construction of a mosque and community center near Ground Zero in Manhattan. The Speaker reiterated her opinion that the matter is a local decision for New York. She also took another jab at critics, demanding ...
Primary Tea Leaves
There were a few more conflicting election signs to chew on early this morning as the numbers came in from Washington and Wyoming, where primary elections were held on Tuesday. While no Congressional incumbents were defeated (as expected) yesterday, we did get an update on how several of them might ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, August 17
Tale Of Two Funerals
Lawmakers from Congress gathered Tuesday in Chicago and others will meet today in Alaska, as officials give their last goodbyes to former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL) and former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), who both died last week. The Stevens funeral will see a larger delegation of lawmakers than those who ...
Eleven Weeks & Counting
Eleven weeks from today, we will be going through the smoking rubble of the mid-term elections, figuring out why one party stayed in power, lost their grip in Congress or both. So let's take a snapshot of where things stand right now in Election 2010.First, let's start in the Senate, ...
Blog Entries for Monday, August 16
Tuesday Primary 8/17
This primary Tuesday has very little suspense, as only two states will go to the polls today, in Washington State and Wyoming, as the November elections are now eleven weeks away. No incumbents from the Congress seem to be in any danger today, but we don't have our usual slate ...
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