The news broke an hour or so ago tonight… Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy will not run for re-election. Kennedy will “retire after eight terms in office, bringing an end to his House career just months after his father, legendary Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, passed away.”
“My father instilled in me a deep commitment to public [...]
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There’s speculation in the WaPo today that Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, may be prepared to “buck” the Obama Administration if his “fact-finding leads him to conclude that Afghanistan could turn into another Vietnam.”
Video of Kerry’s interview with Lois Romano of the WaPo is available here and the transcript of [...]
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My Twitter feed has a lot of links worth checking out from President Obama’s speech to Congress on Health Care Reform. The text of Obama’s speech is here.
The President made it clear tonight: ‘If you misrepresent what’s in the plan, we will call you out’. Good for him. He said what needed to be said and [...]
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Ethan Hastert announced today that “he’ll run for his father’s old seat in Congress,” saying that “he wants to be part of the “next generation of leadership” in the district.”
Good gracious the last thing anyone needs is Hastert 2.0.
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The unemployment rate in the U.S. has reached a 25 year high according to the Voice of America:
The White House says America’s employment picture is worse than the Obama administration had anticipated just a few months ago. The somber admission follows the latest jobless report showing the highest unemployment rate the United States has seen [...]
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I’m not a fan of texting. It’s a time consuming distraction that can cause accidents and even take lives. I haven’t had a cell phone for a few months now and I am not missing it one bit. Even when I did have a cell phone I rarely used the text feature.
The NY Times has [...]
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Social Security. Democrats who thought the Obama Administration wouldn’t go here – were wrong – apparently. Reportedly the “recession” is draining both Social Security and Medicare. This should be an interesting debate… again. And it’s Just in Time for the Health Reform Debate….
At least I would have more faith in some reform from Obama and the Dems [...]
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In his weekly internet and radio address today, President Barack Obama called for on Congress to pass a credit card reform bill that would “stop credit card companies from imposing certain late fees,” by Memorial Day.
Coming in on the side of consumers, Obama said that “it is past time for rules that are fair and transparent.”
“Instead [...]
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Sam Stein reports in the HuffPo that the House reached an agreement on Monday on establishing a “9/11-styled commission that would be independent of Congress and granted the power of subpoena to investigate the origins of the financial crisis.”
Aides on the Hill said that the House will likely vote on the measure Wednesday, adding that the [...]
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The latest Gallup Poll finds that most Americans are confident in President Obama ”to do or recommend the right thing for the economy,” and they have a “much higher level of confidence” in Obama than they do in ”Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, or the Democratic or Republican leaders in Congress”:
And, a new [...]
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