Following up on yesterday’s post, the number of senators singing the letter to urge Harry Reid to put the public option back in play is now growing. Here’s where the list stands: Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) Michael Bennet (D-Col.) Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Al Franken (D-Minn.) Pat Leahy (D-VT) Roland Burris […]
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 […]
Gee ya think? Fired San Diego U.S. attorney Carol Lam notified the Justice Department that she intended to execute search warrants on a high-ranking CIA official as part of a corruption probe the day before a Justice Department official sent an e-mail that said Lam needed to be fired, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Sunday. […]
Sure – we can fork out all this money: The U.S. government already has a courthouse at Guantanamo Bay, but the Pentagon isn’t satisfied, CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports. It plans to spend $100 million of your tax dollars to build a huge new facility just down the hill. “This is very expensive for […]
The Sunday Morning Line-up is a little short today because ABC is carrying World Cup Soccer so This Week will not air. Here is the other programs: Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer Tony Snow: White House press secretary Sen. Pat Roberts: R-Kansas, Intelligence Committee chairman Sen. Dianne Feinstein: D-California, Intelligence Committee member Hoshyar Zebari: Iraqi […]
Compliments of the Washington Post FOX NEWS SUNDAY (WTTG), 9 a.m.: White House homeland security adviser Francis Fragos Townsend , Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) and Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs . THIS WEEK (ABC, WJLA), 9 a.m.: Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) and actor […]
For all the Sunday morning talk show junkies out there, here is a line up for tomorrow courtesy of the Washington Post: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (WTTG), 9 a.m.: Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.). THIS WEEK (ABC, WJLA), 9 a.m.: Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Sam […]
On a rather slow and quiet Tuesday about a month ago a hell broke loose on Capital Hill when Harry Reid shut down Senate to demand answers on the stalling of the next phase of the pre-war intelligence report. It lead to outbursts before the cameras and a new political fight. It also resulted in […]