Kerry swipes Romney again today over Iran foreign policy… I have little interest in inserting myself, as a former nominee of my party, into this presidential campaign season. But as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which has a vital role in issues of national security, I feel compelled to respond to the ways that, in pursuit of the Republican nomination, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has put himself front and center in debates that have serious...
Most of the interest in Iowa’s presidential caucuses Tuesday will inevitably be on which Republican candidates come out on top, but that hasn’t stopped President Obama’s re-election campaign from also spending some time on the Hawkeye State’s first-in-the-nation voting. Obama’s re-election campaign released a pair of online videos. One features a much less gray-haired Obama from 2008. It was the then-senator’s “closing argument” which Candidate Obama put out the night before the Iowa caucuses that year. “It’s...
The latest political battle between the 99 percent and the 1 percent likely is to take place this week on the Senate floor, as senators are expected to vote on the nomination of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) created by the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Created as the brainchild of prominent consumer advocate-turned-Democratic-Senate-candidate Elizabeth Warren, the CFPB is designed to shield consumers from the sorts of financial abuses which helped...
I’ll be on Michael van der Galien’s PoliGazette Blog Talk Radio Show in a just a few minutes or so. You can catch the live stream here. We’ll be talking about the Democratic candidates and the charges that the battle for the nomination has turned into a battle over racism and sexism. Sphere: Related Content
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