This is a huge victory for the environment: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) will become the next chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee after House Democrats voted to replace current Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.). Waxman won 137-122 in the secret ballot vote. The dramatic intra-party showdown for the coveted position signals a leftward turn […]
This is a pretty big one. The Secretary of the Army has just resigned in wake of the scandal: Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey resigned Friday as the Bush administration struggled to cope with the fallout from a scandal over substandard conditions for wounded Iraq soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The surprise move […]
I posted the other day that the WSJ/NBC latest poll has Bush’s approval at 38%. Like I said at that time, dependent upon the poll the numbers to fluctuate pretty good. Well I found another poll that has Bush even lower than that. This one has him at 36%. That poll is from none other […]