Published on February 4th, 2010no comments
Lawyers for President Obama have been working behind the scenes to prepare for the possibility of one, and maybe two Supreme Court vacancies this spring.
Court watchers believe two of the more liberal members of the court, justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, could decide to step aside for reasons of age and health. That would give the president his second and third chance to shape his legacy on the Supreme Court.
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Published on February 4th, 2010no comments
Attorney General Eric Holder has sent a letter defending the decision to charge Abdulmutallab as a criminal and read him his Miranda rights. This paragraph stuck out immediately:
“I made the decision to charge Mr. Abdulmutallab with federal crimes, and to seek his detention in connection with those charges, with the knowledge of, and with no objection from, all other relevant departments of the government. On the evening of December 25 and again on the morning of December 26, the FBI informed its partners in the Intelligence Community that Abdulmutallab would be charged criminally, and no agency objected to this course of action.”
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Published on February 3rd, 2010no comments
“One man’s meat is another man’s poison,” as the saying goes. Let me explain a most striking case in point. Last year at about this time, David Brooks of the New York Times anticipated an enormous intellectual dividend for our country. After cataloguing the Obama administration’s numerous Ivy League J.D.s and Ph.D.s, and with no mention of their real-world experience, he went on to
“Already the culture of the Obama administration is coming into focus. Its members are twice as smart as the poor reporters who have to cover them, three times if you include the columnists.”
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Published on February 3rd, 2010no comments
You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here, here being the U.S. Senate.
It’s been 15 days now since a Republican won the special election in Massachusetts, and Kirk is still squatting in Ted Kennedy’s office.
Hey Paul Kirk – how can we miss you if you won’t go away?
What’s it going to take to pry this guy out of office, the Jaws of Life?
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Published on February 3rd, 2010no comments
SAN FRANCISCO — The nation’s top military leaders called Tuesday for an end to the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military, but repealing the ban could re-energize social conservatives, analysts said.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who also worked in President George W. Bush’s administration, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Pentagon would spend the next 11 months “thoroughly, objectively and methodically” examining the implications of repealing the 1993 law.
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Published on February 3rd, 2010no comments
WASHINGTON (AP) – Leading lawmakers hoping to revive President Barack Obama’s stalled health care overhaul have started writing a compromise bill, but it’s unclear when the legislation will be ready for votes, a top House Democrat said Tuesday.
The measure would change the massive Senate-approved health bill to what bargainers from the White House, Senate and House agreed to last month, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., said in a brief interview.
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Published on February 3rd, 2010no comments
Senate Democrats are preparing to release a roughly $80 billion jobs program this week, but its prospects are uncertain in a political landscape where voters are angry about unemployment yet fuming about federal spending.
Senate leaders are proposing that part of that money come from funds originally allocated to the financial-sector bailout effort, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. But top Democrats have decided to slice the jobs initiative into smaller chunks in the face of Republican attacks on big federal economic-stimulus programs
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