Can the Tea Party govern?
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:32 am PDT
 Y! News Special Report - By Josh Kraushaar National Journal The lion's share of attention paid to the Tea Party movement has gone to its Senate candidates, a slew of outsiders who have touted their opposition to excessive government, shaking up the Republican Party and … Full Story | Top |
Meet Pete Rouse, possibly Obama’s next chief of staff
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:37 pm PDT
The Upshot - With Rahm Emanuel reportedly announcing Friday that he's leaving the White House to run for mayor of Chicago, President Obama is expected to name his senior adviser, Pete Rouse, to serve as acting (and perhaps permanent) White House chief of staff. In choosing Rouse, Obama would be tapping a near-opposite of his outgoing chief of [...] Full Story | Top |
Fast Fix: How to make an Anti-Politics Campaign Ad
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 04:05 am PDT
The Newsroom - With voters in a sour mood about politics, candidates across the country are trying to figure out how to convince their constituents that they aren't like most politicians. Ron Johnson, a Republican running for Senate in Wisconsin, seems to have … Full Story | Top |
AP sources: Emanuel leaving White House on Friday
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:33 pm PDT
 AP - White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is set to give up his influential national post Friday to begin a run for Chicago mayor, a job he has long coveted but won't win unless he persuades voters he's still one of them. Full Story | Top |
Attacked on both sides, Whitman offers to take polygraph
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:02 pm PDT
The Upshot - California GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman told reporters at a news conference Thursday that she would take a lie detector test to prove she was "stunned" when she found out that her housekeeper was an illegal immigrant in 2009, CNN reports. The former housekeeper's lawyer, celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, produced a copy of a letter [...] Full Story | Top |
Poll: Murkowski and Miller are dead even in Alaska
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:57 pm PDT
The Upshot - A new poll finds Joe Miller and Lisa Murkoswki virtually tied in Alaska's Senate race. According to a new CNN/Time survey, Miller narrowly leads the incumbent senator by just two points, 38 percent to 36 percent, among likely Alaska voters. Democrat Scott McAdams, the mayor of Sitka, runs a distant third, garnering just 22 percent. [...] Full Story | Top |
Women a key on Nov. 2; Dems' gender edge closing?
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:54 pm PDT
 AP - They're worried about putting food on the table and paying the bills. They're frustrated that more hasn't changed since President Barack Obama was elected. And they feel like nobody in Washington — Republican or Democrat — has a clue what they're up against. Full Story | Top |
Calif. governor's race upended by immigrant maid
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:34 pm PDT
 AP - Meg Whitman's campaign for governor was thrown into turmoil Thursday as the Republican sought to fend off new evidence that she knowingly had an illegal immigrant housekeeper on her payroll for nearly a decade. Full Story | Top |
Obama meets with U.S. woman freed by Iran
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:50 pm PDT
 Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama met on Thursday with Sarah Shourd, an American hiker who was detained for more than a year in Iran, and vowed to press for the release of two U.S. men who are still being detained by the Iranian government, the White House said. Full Story | Top |
What About Those Earning $250,001?
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:58 am PDT
The Atlantic Wire - In recent days, many people who make slightly over $250,000 have argued that it's unfair to tax them at rates similar to those making over seven figures. These high earners (who are wealthier than 98 percent of the nation) contend that they aren't so different from the squeezed middle class. Since many of them live in expensive areas of the United States, $250,000 doesn't go as far as it may seem. Moreover, if additional tax burdens are levied by the Obama administration, they argue that it gives them less incentive to stay above this tax threshold. Full Story | Top |
Under Obama, FOIA reform relegated to the back burner
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:42 pm PDT
Daily Caller - Anyone who’s ever filed a Freedom of Information Act request, be he a man or be he a god, knows the headache of asking his government for information that isn’t already publicly available. President Obama was supposed to change all that. In March 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder released a memo to all federal agencies outlining reforms as well as announcing the newly created positions of chief FOIA officer and FOIA public liaison. Shortly after the announcement, Lucy A. Dalglish, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press hailed the new rules as “a refreshing change from the disastrous standard set by former Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2001.” Full Story | Top |
McMahon Video Contradicts Lobbying Record
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:13 pm PDT
CQPolitics.com - In a Senate contest already marked by allegations of dishonesty, video footage surfaced in Connecticut this week in which surging GOP hopeful Linda McMahon incorrectly described her connection to Congressional lobbyists. Full Story | Top |
Tea Partiers support audit of Federal Reserve
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:34 pm PDT
Daily Caller - Though Republican Rep. Ron Paul told The Daily Caller last week that he was worried that “some people have slipped into the Tea Party who are awfully close to being part of the establishment,” on at least one particular anti-establishment issue close to the Texas congressman’s heart — auditing the Federal Reserve — Tea Party leaders told The DC that they are all for it. Full Story | Top |
Tea party group wants to question Rep. Grayson
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:51 pm PDT
AP - A group of tea party activists wants to hear from U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson about whether he had a role in getting a candidate from another tea party faction to run to siphon votes from his Republican challenger. Full Story | Top |
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