Senate Republicans are expected to bring down the first of President’s nominees: David Hayes, Obama’s pick for the No. 2 slot at the Interior Department. The vote, expected at 10:30, has nothing to do with Hayes’ qualifications; he was confirmed to the identical post nine years ago under the Clinton Administration. Western …
Rep. Pete Hoekstra today called on the CIA to release notes taken in a September 2002 intelligence briefing of him and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, then the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, marking week two in a fight of he said she said that is growing to Dostoevskian proportions.
Presumably the notes, which Hoekstra says …
Here’s this week’s cover story by Michael Grunwald on the state of the Grand Ole Party. An interesting tidbit: Joe the Plumber is leaving the Party in disgust. An excerpt:
So are the Republicans going extinct? And can the death march be stopped? The Washington critiques of the Republican Party as powerless, leaderless and rudderless
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Here’s a story from me about the choice of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for ranking member of the Judiciary Committee. It’s an interesting gamble for Republicans because they’ll need a base-pleasing bomb thrower in that role — something Sessions has much practice in — but he’s going to be watched like a hawk by Civil Rights and lefty …
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions has been named to replace Arlen Specter as the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee just in time to vet President Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee. This should make life lively as Sessions is hardly known as a wall flower (see links).
I guess…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) today issued the following statement announcing that Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) has joined the National Council for a New America’s panel of experts:
“I am pleased to announce that Governor Palin has joined the National Council for a New America’s panel of
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As promised to commentator 53_3, here’s my take on Saturday’s launch in Arlington, Virginia of the National Center for a New America, the latest iteration in the GOP’s search for a new identity. My favorite fun fact about the event? It was inside the Beltway….
Has anyone else been getting these robo-calls? “This is the second notice that the factory warranty on your car is about to expire.” I started getting them on my cell phone about a month ago and now I’m getting them morning noon and night – like 2am night. According to some useful research by a blogger on reddit, the culprit …
Both sides of the aisle spent all week lamenting/celebrating Arlen Specter’s party switch and the potential for a 60 vote Democratic majority in the Senate. But Specter’s swap leaves the Senate Judiciary Committee without its most prominent GOP moderate. In any other committee that wouldn’t matter but in the Judiciary Committee one …
So, what brought Arlen Specter to this point? The wooing started about five years ago. In brief conversations on the Senate floor or at the gym, Reid would remind Specter of the opportunities that could be his if he joined the Dems – the same way he had Jim Jeffords and John McCain, who once briefly flirted with the idea of switching
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RNC Chairman Michael Steele sent out an email to supporters late last night outraged over Specter’s “defection”:
I hope Arlen Specter’s party change outrages you. It should for two reasons:
First–Specter claimed it was philosophical–and pointed his finger of blame at Republicans all over America for his defection to the Democrats.
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I say high, you say low
You say why, and I say I don’t know
Oh, no
You say goodbye and I say hello …
When asked about Rep. Jane Harman’s alleged wire tapping on Tuesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this:
As you know, this is a breaking story, so I don’t know the particulars but I do think that I don’t know that Congressman Harman was wiretapped, I mean somebody was wiretapped and there may have been a conversation. I really do not
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