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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for December 2011
Blog Entries for Saturday, December 31
Obama Defense Bill Signing Statement
The White House announced today from Hawaii that President Obama had signed into law a major defense policy bill, but Mr. Obama at the same time served notice to Congress that he would ignore certain provisions dealing with detainees in the War on Terror. Here the Obama signing statement: THE ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, December 27
Sen. Ben Nelson Retires
Democrats got some unwelcome election news on Tuesday, when Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska announced he would not seek re-election, giving Republicans a good opportunity to pick up a Senate seat in the 2012 elections. "I want to thank Senator Nelson for his years of service representing the people of ...
Blog Entries for Saturday, December 24
Only Romney & Paul on Virginia Ballot
Officials in the Commonwealth of Virginia have announced that only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul qualified for the Super Tuesday ballot, dealing a setback to the campaigns of both Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich. Backers of both Perry and Gringrich submitted more than the 10,000 signatures needed, but not all ...
Blog Entries for Friday, December 23
Obama Signing Statement
Before President Obama left for Hawaii to join his family on a Christmas vacation, he signed into law a package of budget bills for the current fiscal year - but he also let Congress know that a few provisions would not be observed by his administration. These are called "signing ...
Congress Wraps Up 2011
It was definitely a messy end to the work year for the Congress, as the House and Senate quietly approved a two month extension of a payroll tax cut, capping off a post-Thanksgiving session that was marked mainly by political posturing and maneuvering. Republicans stayed away from the TV cameras ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, December 22
Republicans Give In
Whether you say that House GOP leaders "caved in" to Democrats or simply gave in to growing pressure within Republican ranks, it was a rough few days for Speaker John Boehner in his party's bid to forge a year-long extension of a payroll tax cut. "It may not have been ...
Payroll Tax Cut Deal
After a lot of finger pointing from both parties, Republican leaders in the House have agreed to approve a two-month extension of a payroll tax cut, in exchange for a committment from Democrats in the Senate to work out a longer term deal. Here is the statement issued by Speaker ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, December 21
White House Christmas
While President Obama was out for a shopping trip on Wednesday afternoon, my family got the chance to tour the White House and see the holiday decorations set up this year at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. For those wondering, it was the first time in 15 years that I had received ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, December 20
Congress Goes Home
As lawmakers left the House floor after legislative business was finished on Tuesday, members of both parties told reporters they had no idea how a raging political dispute over a payroll tax cut extension was going to be resolved. And it left some shaking their heads in institutional dismay. "To ...
Blog Entries for Monday, December 19
House Delays Tax Cut Vote
Deciding against votes after midnight, House Republicans last night delayed action on an extension of a payroll tax cut, as GOP leaders set up a parliamentary situation that does not include a direct vote on a two month extension approved on Saturday by the Senate. "We disagree with what the ...
Gingrich's Poll Numbers Soften
During last week's visit to Iowa for a GOP debate, I wrote about all of the negative ads being run against Newt Gingrich on radio and television, and the rumblings of how his poll numbers were softening. We might be starting to see some evidence of that. Two new polls ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, December 18
Payroll Tax Cut Battle
When the Senate voted 89-10 on Saturday morning for a plan to extend a payroll tax cut and other items for two months, it seemed like the Congress would end the year by quietly punting those political battles until the end of February 2012. And then House Republicans rebelled. The ...
Paying for the Payroll Tax Cut Extension
It sounds simple enough - the Senate on Saturday morning approved a two-month extension of a payroll tax cut that is due to expire at the end of December. But did you know that the cost will fall on people who buy a house or refinance their mortgage starting in ...
Blog Entries for Friday, December 16
The Stretch Run in Iowa
As the seven major Republican candidates filed out of the Sioux City Convention Center on Thursday night in Iowa, we started entering a brand new phase of this political fight, a rush down the stretch to the caucuses on January 3. "I need your help at the caucus," said Mitt ...
Iowa GOP Debate
While there were no knockdowns or gaffes, Thursday night's final GOP debate here in Iowa gave voters the green light on a final 18 day sprint to the finish line in the Hawkeye State, as Republicans zinged each other and fired on the Obama Administration. The Fox News anchors who ...
Going After Gingrich
Driving several hundred miles around Iowa on Friday, it didn't take long to hear some political ads on the radio for the Iowa Caucuses. There were some postivie spots from Rick Perry and other candidates - and then one hard hitting ad against Newt Gingrich. That 60 second ad on ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, December 15
Newt Stays Positive
FROM FORT DODGE, IOWA - In the face of negative ads and attacks from his closest pursuers, Newt Gingrich is adopting a strategy of staying positive, as he refuses to be drawn into a classic tit-for-tat battle of negative advertising. "I know there's a ton of negative ads," Gingrich told ...
Deciphering Iowa Voters
As Republicans gather here in Sioux City, Iowa for the final debate before the Iowa Caucuses on January 3, the big parlor game right now in political circles is trying to figure out where this race is going in the next 19 days. We have seen all kinds of volatility ...
Final Iowa Debate
With just nineteen days until the Iowa Caucuses, tonight's gathering of major Republican candidates will be the final GOP debate before Iowa voters deliver the first important decision of the 2012 race for the White House, a debate that could result in some last ditch efforts by one or more ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, December 13
Legislative Gordian Knot
Republicans turned the screws on their own lawmakers in the House on Tuesday, muscling their version of a payroll tax cut extension bill through the House, sending it on to Democrats in the Senate who immediately declared it Dead on Arrival. "The bill just passed tonight by the House of ...
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