President Barack Obama, who during the campaign pledged to end the policy of don’t ask don’t tell, yesterday neatly avoided a political land mine that hamstrung President Bill Clinton’s first 100 days. Obama named Rep. John McHugh, a New York Republican, to be Secretary of the Army. The White House said the issue never came up in …
President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is not yet done with her first day of Senate courtesy calls and it’s already apparent that her visit has been tougher on Senate Republicans than it has been on her.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, and his members have gone out of the way …
An update from me on the longest running battle for a U.S. Senate seat in 34 years.
The GOP response to President Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor seems to be walk softly and carry a huge magnifying glass.
Also, you can listen here to a podcast about what to expect.
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A GOP birdie reminds me that the Dems paid little heed to Hispanic voters when they filibustered Miguel Estrada’s nomination to the DC …
In the category of who’d have thunk to have asked goes this gem, kudos to the booker, from CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer today:
Alberto Gonzales: I think it’s a proud day for the Sotomayor family. It’s a historic day for the Hispanic community. I don’t think that any gender group or ethnic group is entitled to
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There are so many gross problems with this RNC video comparing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the James Bond character Pussy Galore that I don’t know where to begin. For those Republicans worried that attacks on Pelosi might backfire — this is exactly the kind of over-the-top sexist gambit they should be losing sleep over.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a surprise for the several dozen reporters gathered in her ceremonial office this Friday morning for her weekly press conference: some guests. Pelosi brought with her her top leadership team, Steny Hoyer, Xavier Becerra and Chris Van Hollen minus whip Jim Clyburn. “Good morning,” Hoyer blustered with an …
It has taken nearly all of House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman’s energies and patience the last five months to finally get to the point this week where he thinks he has enough support from conservative Dems on his own committee to pass sweeping climate change legislation. Enter Colin Peterson, the chairman of the …
Yesterday I wrote that all three other accounts of the September 2002 CIA briefings on EITs (Goss, Shelby, Graham) seemed to support Speaker Pelosi’s statement that they were not informed that the practices had already been used. I stand corrected. Apparently Senator Richard Shelby’s office put out a clarification to his original …
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has had a tough week — much of it her own making. But in looking at the substance of the accusations, it increasingly looks like she was right. Porter Goss was careful to parse his words in the conditional future tense when talking about what, exactly, he and Pelosi were briefed on in September 2002:
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On May 2 I blogged about the increasing number of annoying and illegal robo-calls that I, and thousands of others, have been getting. Well, thanks to Senator Chuck Schumer and the Federal Trade Commission (hat tip Daniel Lippman) I’m only getting one or two a week, down from more than a dozen. I hope everyone else has been so relieved. …
Rather than update my last post, I decided to start a new one so everyone has a fresh slate on which to vent through the weekend. C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta sent a letter Friday afternoon to C.I.A. employees telling them that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “truthfully” briefed in 2002 but he also reiterated his statement that …
Here’s the latest from me on the Speaker’s accusation yesterday that the C.I.A. lied to her.
