Again – mixed messages! The White House is sharply denying the Huffington Post story I noted below claiming that David Axelrod signaled a willingness to accept a temporary extension of all the Bush tax cuts, claiming that their position remains unchanged. Axelrod emails: There is not one bit of news here. I simply re-stated what […]
It looks like there is some bigger troubles brewing inside the Republican ranks: GOP leaders, in a private meeting last month, delivered a blunt and at times heated message to RNC Chairman Michael Steele: quit meddling in policy. The plea was made during what was supposed to be a routine discussion about polling matters and […]
The big news is that the pressure is on for President Obama to reverse himself and start looking into the allegations of law breaking by the Bush administration: Leading Democrats on Sunday demanded investigations of how a highly classified counterterrorism program was kept secret from the Congressional leadership on the orders of Vice President Dick […]
And it’s not Hillary: Taking a break from his work at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto on Monday, former President Clinton warned Republicans not to politicize the London terror arrests, slammed Sen. Joe Lieberman, whom he campaigned for just a couple weeks ago, and tackled some of the controversies surrounding his work to […]
According to the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, people not only know about the Jack Abramoff scandal but also feel it is a GOP problem and very serious. • Most Americans say they’re following news of the Abramoff scandal closely, and 53% call it a major scandal. Just 9% see it as “not a serious matter.” […]
When Democrats successfully got the ANWR provision stripped from the defense budget on Wednesday, Republicans decided to punish the poor people in the country by hurting their federal assistance with rising heating prices. This is brought up by a newpress release issued by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorites, a non-partisan research group: WASHINGTON, […]