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The Anthony Weiner scandal ended in much of the same way it began. Hecklers hijacked the New York congressman’s Thursday afternoon press conference in New York City, rudely interrupting a somber resignation announcement with obscene missives and questions about genital girth. Dignity, on both sides, was in short supply. With new revelations about Weiner’s sexual [...]
Rep. Anthony Weiner called House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Steve Israel Wednesday night to inform them that he will be resigning from Congress. The last month has seen Weiner tweet a lewd picture to a 21-year-old college student, lie to the press about it, admit to years of inappropriate online relationships in a [...]
President Obama didn’t hold back any praise on Tuesday during his day-trip to the Caribbean. “Puerto Rican artists contribute to our culture,” he declared at the airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. “Puerto Rican entreprenuers create American jobs.” He spoke these words before an audience that has no say in the electoral college that will [...]
Between now and August 2, Congress is highly likely to vote to raise the federal debt limit. And yet, much of what you read and hear seems to suggest otherwise. News headlines are forbidding. Business gurus issue dark warnings; Administration officials stress the “catastrophic” consequences of default. Ratings agencies claim to be spooked. Tea Party [...]
Barack Obama’s first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border as President is the main attraction of Tuesday’s Lone Star state swing. Obama will tour a cargo facility and give a speech in El Paso, the latest effort in a push to court a crucial Latino voting bloc bristling over the lack of progress on immigration reform. [...]
How do you react when you suspect a friend has been aiding your worst enemy? If you’re Rep. Ted Poe, you demand they prove their loyalty. “Pakistan has a lot of explaining to do. It seems unimaginable that Osama bin Laden was living 1,000 yards away from a military base in a million-dollar mansion built [...]
Ezra Klein–this is boring, but it’s almost always the case–has yet another smart piece today in which he posits Barack Obama as a moderate Republican from the early 1990s. I don’t know about the label, but the substance is right on target: Obama favored an individual mandate universal health care plan, which–as I’ve insisted here before–was [...]
It’s been a tough stretch for Republican Congressman Sean Duffy. A month ago, the prized recruit was embroiled in controversy after telling a town hall crowd back in Wisconsin’s Seventh District that he was “struggling” to pay his bills on his $174,000 representative’s salary. (Median household income in WI-7: $39,000.) Upon returning home for Congress’s [...]
