President Obama must have thrilled his guests at a White House Ramadan dinner when he came out in support of the proposed mosque near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, but he handed the GOP yet another campaign issue. Now Dems must choose whether or not to support the President or mollify their constituents and run [...]
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LAS VEGAS — President Obama wrapped up a two-day campaign swing on Friday with a full-throated defense of his economic policies and a warm-hearted embrace for the Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, a onetime boxer who is counting on the president to help him fight his way through a tough re-election race… There, the [...] After steering the landmark health-care reform bill through Congress, the Democratic Party’s leaders have emerged mostly unscathed, according to a new Washington Post poll, but they have not received a notable boost in approval ratings. via Health-care overhaul leaves Democrats in stable condition – washingtonpost.com. Classic headline spin from the WaPo. Read the entire article and you find [...] The Cook Political Report has been handicapping the various races up-coming in 2010. (See here.) The results are surprising, with there even being a (remote) possibility of a GOP majority in the Senate. There are 36 races for US Senator. Ten of them will be for open seats, including Roland Burris’ in Illinois and six retiring [...] More and more the Massachusetts Senatorial election is looking like the moment when everyone realized that the emperor had no clothes. Item: Beau Biden, son of the VP and an Iraqi veteran, was thought to be a shoo-in to take over his father’s Senate seat. He has pulled his hat out of the ring. Item: according to [...] Party Switch Costs Specter His Seniority In announcing his move across the aisle last week, Specter asserted that Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) had assured him he would retain his seniority in the Senate and on the five committees on which he serves. Specter’s tenure ranked him ahead of all but seven Democrats. Instead, though, on [...] What can one say about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid? As the Blagojevich affair gathered steam, Reid vowed he would not seat any appointee selected by the governor to replace Barack Obama. Blagojevich then called his bluff by appointing Roland Burris, a seemingly harmless career politician1 who was African-American. Rather than risk being called out by [...] |
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