It finally looks like the White House is going to get out front and show America who the party of no really is: The White House is preparing late this week to aggressively go after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his GOP colleagues on financial reform. A Democratic party source said Thursday evening […]
Just received this breaking news alert from the Washington Post: President Obama signed an order Thursday night requiring hospitals to allow gays and lesbians to have non-family visitors and to grant their partners medical power of attorney. The president ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to prohibit discrimination in hospital visitation. The memo […]
There is a silver lining to what happened today. Congress is in recess until Thursday, meaning they could pass something on Thursday, but that is not very likely. That means we got a debate Thursday night with Sarah Palin and Joe Biden and the economy will be brought up. Considering Palin’s dismal responses to Couric’s […]
The McCain campaign is threatening Gwen Ifill if she asks to many/hard foreign policy questions Thursday night: Of course the moron Steve Doocey now says people are more concerned about “domestic issues”. Funny that when they talk about John McCain they say the voters are more concerned about foreign policy. So this should be chalked […]
Obama is going to appear on Bill O’Reilly Thursday night. I know a lot on our side will argue that he shouldn’t give the smear machine the time of day, but Obama is showing more courage than John McCain, who won’t even face Larry King.
Thursday night Obama brought up this story: “You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon,” he said. “Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. And as […]
This has to be a warning sign to Republicans: Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama out-raised the four Republican presidential candidates – John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul – $49.6 million to $42.2 million in the last three months of 2007, according to finance reports made public Thursday night. So two […]
When will we have laws to impose strict fines for companies that are so careless with consumers personal information? Personal information on about 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and up to 100 other retailers could be compromised after a computer tape went missing. GE Money, which handles credit card operations for Penney and many other […]
So how do the Democrats respond when it is one of their own in a criminal investigation? Simple: Add political banishment to the list of problems confronting Rep. William Jefferson (news, bio, voting record), ensnared in a bribery scandal that fellow Democrats hope to turn to their election-year advantage. “Democrats are determined to hold a […]
CNN was originally posting as this would be tonight. It is actually being done Thursday night At 9:00 pm eastern Thursday, President Bush will take over the television stations and address the nation from Louisiana. Ironically he is doing this on the fourth anniversary of his infamous “bullhorn†speech. Perhaps he feels that making the […]