Posted on May 8th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Senator Arlen Specter’s short days as a Democrat have filled with a lot of turmoil and now “MoveOn.org , is resisting efforts to clear the Democratic primary field for Republican-turned-Democratic.”
The group expressed concern over Specter’s vote against President Obama’s $3.4 billion budget just one day after defecting to the Democratic Party. MoveOn also cited comments [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, In The Blogosphere, In The News, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, President Barack Obama, Republicans, Senate
Posted on October 18th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
This an item from Political Wire so let me give them their Hat Tip up front.
All Eyes on Powell
Sources close to former Secretary of State Colin Powell cautioned that his support for Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. John McCain “might stop short of a formal endorsement when he’s interviewed on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday,” [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on September 7th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Sarah Palin is breaking the interview silence and has agreed to a sit down interivew with “Charles Gibson of ABC’s “World News Tonight,” according to an ABC News official.”
No other interviews are scheduled. It will be the first TV interview for Palin since she was named 10 days ago as running mate to John McCain.
Palin had [...]
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Filed under: ABC News, Conservatives, Democrats, Election '08, Gov. Sarah Palin, In The News, John McCain '08, News Media, Obama-Biden 08, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Election, Republicans, TV
Posted on August 6th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
In a nutshell: “Over the past several weeks there has been perhaps no better surrogate for Barack Obama than Senator John Kerry.”
In the past week alone, Kerry delivered a major address on counterterrorism in which he systematically ripped apart John McCain’s foreign policy depth and understanding. He took to the airwaves to defend Obama against [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Election '08, Foreign Policy, In The News, John Kerry, John McCain '08, Pamela Leavey, Politics, Presidential Election
Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Via a press release from Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: Today the Senate passed S.3145, which names a portion of United States Route 20A, located in Orchard Park, near Buffalo, New York, as the ‘Timothy J. Russert Highway.’ Tim Russert, the long-time host of “Meet the Press” and award-winning NBC journalist [...]
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Filed under: Congress, Democrats, George W. Bush, House of Reps, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Sen. Barbara Boxer, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Senate
Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The passing of Tim Russert has left a great void in the Sunday morning news shows. NBC announced today that Tom Brokaw will anchor ‘Meet The Press’ through the general election season. Brokaw will begin hosting the show on June 29. He was the host for the Sunday immediately following Russert’s sudden death from a [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, General Election, In The News, NBC News, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Election, TV
Posted on June 14th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I just got in a couple of hours ago from abut 8 hours on the road and not a lick of news, by choice. Needless to say, I was stunned to get back online and see that Tim Russert had died suddenly today. I bumped into Tim Russert, literally in the press area of a [...]
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Filed under: In The News, John Kerry, MSNBC, NBC News, News Media, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, TV
Posted on May 27th, 2007 by Robert Stein
Not the most elegant way to put it, but the first statement Bill Richardson made on his hour-long “Meet the Press” interview this morning reiterates what he has been saying for some time now: Stop diddling with the funding for our disaster in Iraq and take steps toward rescinding Congressional authorization of it.
Now if the [...]
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Filed under: Breaking News, Congress, Iraq
Posted on March 18th, 2007 by Todd Mitchell
LOL. “I would suggest that Republicans lost because they did not communicate their message and their victories with enough strength to overcome short-term, media-fed issues that arose right before the election,” Mr. DeLay writes in the book, “No Retreat, No Surrender” (Sentinel), referring in part to the Congressional page scandal.
“In typical take-no-prisoners fashion, Mr. [...]
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Filed under: Congress, House of Reps, Political News Shows, Politics, Republicans
Posted on April 9th, 2006 by KJ
