The chorus of calls for Senator Roland Burris to step down are growing louder and adding insult to injury today his spokesman stepped down. Jason Erkes said in a written statement to CNN: “I initially began helping the senator on a temporary basis because he is a long-term friend who I served several years when he was attorney general. ”It is now time for me to get back to focusing on … my newly formed strategic communications business.” Things...
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Secretary Clinton in South Korea
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in South Korea yesterday. It is the 3rd stop on her four nation Asian tour. While en route to Seoul, South Korea, Secretary Clinton spoke extensively with reporters aboard her plane on the tense relationship between North and South Korea that has recently heated up given the “evidence that North Korea was gearing up for a launch of a long-range missile.” Clinton said she “will be receiving briefings in Seoul by the U.S....
Sebelius as Top Choice for HHS
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius who was an early Obama supporter is apparently President Obama’s top pick now for Secretary of health and human services. If Sebelius is nominated she brings “eight years of experience as her state’s insurance commissioner as well as six years as a governor running a state Medicaid program.” The NY Times reports, with “President Obama about to begin a drive to expand health coverage, an issue on which the two parties have deep ideological divisions,...
North Dakota Bans Abortion
Well, not really. Or, not yet. The state’s House of Representatives has, by a margin of 51-41, voted “to declare that a fertilized egg has all the rights of any person,” according to local KXNet. In other words, the House has effectively voted to ban abortion, given that abortion would be murder. The bill now moves to the Senate. Bill sponsor Dan Ruby — a Republican, of course — claims that the legislation is compatible with Roe v. Wade,...
Beware of Deepening Economic Pain
We gave Wall Street and the Big Auto companies a bail-out and they blew it. They came back and asked for more. The mess keeps getting uglier and we simply haven’t seen the worst of it. The Federal Reserve painted a really bleak picture on Wednesday, hours after President Obama announced his plan to help homeowners, one day after he signed the Stimulus Bill: Under the new projections, the unemployment rate will rise to between 8.5 and 8.8 percent...
Secretary Clinton Signals Possible Policy Shift on Burma
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the economic sanctions that have been imposed by the U.S. and “other Western governments had failed to pressure the repressive Burmese government,” thus pointing to a potential shift in U.S. policy on Burma. Sphere: Related Content
Obama Unveils Plan to Fight Home Foreclosures
Moving right along, on the bailout/stimulus efforts from the Obama administration, President Obama unveiled a $75 billion plan today geared to help millions of “homeowners refinance their mortgages or avert foreclosure.” The initiative Obama said ”would shore up distressed housing prices, stabilize neighborhoods and slow a downward spiral that he said was ‘unraveling homeownership, the middle class, and the American Dream itself.’” Speaking at a high school gymnasium in Mesa, AZ, Obama told the crowd, “This plan will not save every home,...
GM Wants More Bailout
On Tuesday after President Obama signed the stimulus bill, General Motors and Chrysler jumped up and asked the federal government for another another $14 billion in bailout funds. In return for more bailout from the goverment, both companies “promised to make further drastic cuts to all parts of their operations, in the hope that they can eventually strike a balance between their bloated cost structures and a dismal market for new car sales.” G.M. announced they would “cut 47,000...
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