Entries
Giuliani Mulls 2012 White House Bid
The Weekly Standard reports: I'm told by two reliable sources that Rudy Giuliani intends to run for the GOP nomination for president in 2012. He may throw his hat in the ring soon. Rudy's theory of the race: In the fall of 2007, he decided he couldn't compete with both Mitt Romney and John …Goolsbee Stays With Campaign Team
The Huffington Post reports: Lost in this week's announcement that Austan Goolsbee, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, would be leaving the White House in time of the beginning of the next school year was a telling footnote. While Goolsbee is returning to his teaching post at …Afghan Hawks Pursuing A 'Fantasy'
Time reports: The article by Michael O'Hanlon last week (i.e. Success worth paying for in Afghanistan) and the one in today's WSJ by Kagan and Kagan (i.e., We Have The Momentum in Afghanistan) made me sick to my stomach -- especially the latter. Have you seen it yet? It is the most …Weiner's Wife Pregnant
The Huffington Post reports : The New York Times reports that Huma Abedin , wife of embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner, is pregnant with their first child. The 35-year-old is in the early stages of pregnancy, according to three people with knowledge of the situation, the Times …
Expert: Extending FBI Chief Term is 'Unconstitutional'
The Hill reports : Senators pushed forward with a hearing Wednesday on whether to extend FBI Director Robert Mueller’s term by two years even as one legal expert testified that the move would be unconstitutional. Some of the lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee expressed concern …
Senate Libya Resolution Pressures Obama
The Huffington Post reports : A resolution before the Senate pressures President Barack Obama to seek congressional consent for continued U.S. military involvement in Libya and requires the administration to provide a detailed justification for the decision to go to war. Sens. Jim Webb, …
Obama Campaign Adjusts its 2012 Map
Politico reports : President Barack Obama’s campaign team is gaming out complex state-by-state scenarios for 2012 that anticipate uphill battles in recession-ravaged blue states — and new opportunities in Arizona and Georgia. Their underlying assumption is that the GOP presidential …
U.S. Falling Behind in 'Green' Business
The New York Times reports : Many European countries — along with China, Japan and South Korea — have pushed commercial development of carbon-reducing technologies with a robust policy mix of direct government investment, tax breaks, loans, regulation and laws that cap or tax …
Goolsbee: No Economic Crisis
The Huffington Post reports : Austan Goolsbee, still at this moment chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, is clearly tired of hearing talk about the supposedly desperate state of the American economy. On the heels of the latest government snapshot of the labor …
New Misrata Offensive Launched
CNN reports: Forces loyal to embattled Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi launched a new attack on the rebel-held city of Misrata on Wednesday, with anti-government forces reporting intense shelling from three sides of the city. Thousands of government troops attacked around 6 a.m. (11 p.m. …Swipe Fee Rules Delay Rejected
The "National Journal" reports: In a highly anticipated vote, the Senate rejected by 54 to 45 an amendment from Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., on Wednesday that would have delayed a swipe fee regulation from Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. The move decides the fate of a …Judges Skeptical Of Obamacare
The "Los Angeles Times" reports: A top Obama administration lawyer defending last year's healthcare law ran into skeptical questions Wednesday from three federal judges here, who suggested they may be ready to declare all or part of the law unconstitutional. Acting U.S. Solicitor General …GOP Rallies Support For Budget Reform
Calls for Congress to adopt a two-year budget process first emerged decades ago. But now Republicans are seriously pushing the idea in the debt limit talks. Republicans in Congress have begun to force talks on budget process reform, starting with instituting a two-year (biennial) budget, …Key Dem Calls for Weiner Resignation
Politico reports : The dam is beginning to break for Rep. Anthony Weiner as he battles to save his career from a sex- scandal made for the Internet age . Rep. Allyson Schwartz , a leading official at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, called for the New York Democrat …
Claim: Blair, Kate Phones Hacked
The "Guardian" reports: Pressure is building on the Metropolitan police to expand their phone-hacking inquiry to include a notorious private investigator who was accused in the House of Commons on Wednesday of targeting politicians, members of the royal family and high-level terrorist …Palin Camp Expects Rollins Retraction
"Politico" reports: Sarah Palin's chief of staff blasted Michele Bachmann strategist Ed Rollins today after Rollins criticized the former Alaska governor and suggested to POLITICO that his candidate would benefit by comparison to her "Beltway political strategist Ed Rollins has a long, …Poll: Voters Fear New Depression
CNN reports : President Barack Obama's overall approval rating has dropped below 50 percent as a growing number of Americans worry that the U.S. is likely to slip into another Great Depression within the next 12 months, according to a new national poll. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation …
Begich to Palin: McCain's Your Senator Now
Politico reports : Sen. Mark Begich is turning a deaf ear to Sarah Palin's demand that he make drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge a condition for his vote to approve raising the nation's debt ceiling. "She's not really on my radar screen to take advice from," the Alaska …
Newt Aide Starts Fight with WSJ
Politico reports : Newt Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler has gotten tired of reading Wall Street Journal editorials trashing his boss. So he’s taken to Twitter to start putting out his own opinions — about the Journal’s editorial board. Responding to a piece Wednesday morning lavishing …