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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for September 2012
Blog Entries for Sunday, September 30
A focus on the first debate
The details of the race for the White House will spiral around the first presidential debate this week in Denver, which will focus on domestic issues. Both President Obama and Mitt Romney already out west getting ready for the debate; Mr. Obama held a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday ...
US Supreme Court starts a new term
Just over three months after a huge decision to uphold most of President Obama's controversial health reform law, the U.S. Supreme Court convenes for its new term with a major decisions expected on affirmative action and other possible cases involving gay marriage and voting rights. Next week, the Court will ...
Blog Entries for Friday, September 28
Heading to the first debate
President Obama and Mitt Romney are starting to focus even more on next week's first Presidential debate next Wednesday in Denver, as Romney holds a fundraiser and rally in Pennsylvania, while the President will jet out to Nevada on Sunday and then take a few days to prep for that debate. ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, September 26
Obama, Romney duel in Ohio
From Dayton, Ohio - Shadowing each other across one of the most important states in any election for the White House, Mitt Romney and President Obama made their case to voters in the Buckeye State on Wednesday, making the case that their party was best positioned to turn around ...
Election Day is already here
From Dayton, Ohio - As President Obama and Mitt Romney campaigned across this key state on Wednesday, it became very clear how much elections have changed in recent years. We don't have to wait six weeks for the elections. Election Day is already here. "You can start voting in six ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, September 25
Ohio takes election center stage
A week ago, President Obama and Mitt Romney both stumped for votes on the same day in Florida, and Wednesday that type of battle occurs again in Ohio, another swing state that has shown polls trending more towards Democrats in the last few weeks. Of the last 15 polls in ...
Election smack on the House floor
While the Congress is done with legislative business until after the November elections, the House and Senate must still convene for pro forma sessions over the next six weeks - and Democrats took advantage of that on the House floor on Tuesday. The tactic is nothing new from either party, ...
Blog Entries for Monday, September 24
Foreign policy focus in presidential race
While Republicans might want to switch the focus of Campaign 2012 back to domestic and economic issues, foreign policy seems likely to dominate on Tuesday as President Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Mitt Romney's campaign jabbed at the President repeatedly on Monday over foreign policy ...
Looking for trends in the polls
I said about a month ago that we should wait until the week of September 24 to look at the polls for the November elections. Now that time frame is here, you cannot ignore some of the trends in those polls, both in the race for the White House and ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, September 23
Senate leaves in the dark of night
If you missed the wrap up of the pre-election session in Congress, it was probably because you weren't watching C-SPAN2 at 4:03 am on Saturday morning when the Senate adjourned, setting the next vote for November 13, one week after the elections. The House got out of town at lunch ...
Blog Entries for Friday, September 21
Romneys release 2011 tax return
Still under fire from Democrats about his tax returns, Mitt Romney is releasing his 2011 joint return with his wife, which will show that he paid an effective tax rate of 14.1% in 2011. Romney's campaign also released a financial review of twenty years of Romney's tax returns, though the ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, September 20
Stop gap budget not yet through Congress
Dreams of a quick departure from Washington, D.C. for Congress was delayed on Thursday, as wrangling over a six month temporary budget, foreign aid and a bill dealing with hunting on public lands forced Senators to come back into session on Friday, with threats of a weekend session. While both ...
New York Times changes on "quote approval"
Leading what some journalists hope will be a change in behavior by major news organizations, the New York Times has told its reporters not to engage in "after-the-fact quote approval" with sources, a practice that drew scorn when recently publicized in a Times article. "Despite our reporters’ best efforts, we ...
Congress becomes the Campaign Trail
The final hours of Congress before a break for the 2012 elections featured lawmakers in both parties in full campaign mode, as the House and Senate floors turned into a bipartisan prop for election year finger pointing on Thursday with just over six weeks until Election Day. Senate Republicans started ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, September 19
At least two officials out over Fast and Furious
A new report by an internal watchdog at the Department of Justice on the gun running operation known as Fast and Furious will lead to the departure of at least two senior officials, and possible discipline for as many as a dozen more. The 512 page report issued on Wednesday ...
Republicans pounce on "terrorist attack" in Libya
A simple question to a top U.S. Intelligence official at a Senate hearing today gave Republicans an opening to try to ratchet up the political focus on last week's attacks in Libya that killed four American diplomats and what the Obama Administration did to prevent such losses. "Let me begin ...
Romney tries to re-frame election debate
After taking heat over the leak of taped comments at a fund raising event earlier this year, Mitt Romney's campaign pushed back on Wednesday by releasing a memo to reporters that tries to frame the race for the White House as a battle between big government and free enterprise. Here ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, September 18
President Obama on Letterman
On a day where the news focus was on the troubles of his challenger, President Obama went on "The Late Show" with David Letterman, taking the opportunity to comment on comment by Mitt Romney to a private fund raising event back in May, where Romney said 47% of voters would ...
Senators urge review of embassy security
With questions still bubbling about what precautions were taken by the State Department and what might have been known before last week's attacks on U.S. diplomats in Libya, a group of Senators have asked for an official probe of those matters. In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ...
Senator asks Congress to cut some foreign aid
Congress returns to work today for a short three day session that should end with lawmakers going back home for the elections, and then returning to Washington, D.C. in mid-November. While that schedule seems locked in for House members, the Senate could still face some last minute trouble with a ...
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