Indeed, 10 GOP leaders issued a statement yesterday, declaring earmarks a "symbol of a broken Washington," and calling for their elimination. These same 10 Republicans requested over $240 million in earmarks since 2008. ...
... of Americans expressing a belief in man-made climate change now correlates loosely with the level of support for the president, while the percentage expressing skepticism is in line with opposition to Democrats in Washington. ...
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As say others, Washington is capable of any level of betrayal, especially when it comes to the kabuki theatre of Repugnant power games for the corporate sway and Dim wilting cowardice in its face. ...
WASHINGTON — They just don't get it in Washington. There's a gaping disconnect between what Americans care about and what President Barack Obama and Congress, Democrats and Republicans are actually doing.
... focuses where the problems are, not a cop that's fenced off from some of the worst actors,” Elizabeth Warren, Harvard law professor and a longtime champion of a separate, robust consumer protection agency, told The Washington Post. ...
Attorney General Eric Holder, already fending off criticism over his decision to try 9/11 plotters in civilian courts, now faces accusations that he failed to submit certain materials to the Senate during his confirmation last year.
Surely there have been plenty of eras where Washington did little, was ineffective, was frustrating, slow and ugly to watch. It was literally generations between the end of the Civil War and the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts ...
Two years ago, Washington was abuzz once again with the prospects for a "League of Democracies" that would support U.S. global leadership. But in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, which devastated Burma/Myanmar, a very clear rift opened ...
The Obama administration's six-month delay in approving new offshore drilling leases in federal waters will become a new three-year ban, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar quietly to.
Without doubt a large majority of our Democratic Party representatives in Washington are tainted by corruption, and the liberals among us are supporting the ideologies of progressives with their agendas based on moving our Nation deeper ...
On the Chris Matthews Show, while talking about Obama and health care, I used the analogy of selling watermelons by the side of the road. It's an expression that stretches to my boyhood roots in Texas. I'm sorry people took offense.
Apparently the Justice Department found that Eric Holder ought to have disclosed to the Senate the fact that he signed onto an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in 2004 for the Jose Padilla case. As a result, Republican senators are up ...
He worked briefly at the politically connected Carlyle Group, a private equity firm in Washington. After the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, he became the civilian face of the coalition government, as policy adviser to the ...
The greater Washington, D.C. area is known for its wide variety of museums. Southwest Customers at the Baltimore/Washington Airport can examine a unique historical artifact from one of the most unique of these museums, ...
No really, he said that yesterday. Nothing like railing against Washington when you and your political party run it! Here is the relevant, gag-inducing paragraph: As we were driving in, I was saying,
... White House with a promise to tackle those very issues, “the cracks in the health care system have opened even wider,” Sebelius told hundreds of members of America's Health Insurance Plans gathered at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington. ...
It was the ultimate in straw-man positions: at a fund-raiser in St. Louis, Obama told the crowd that "most of Washington" doesn't understand tough moves he's made to boost the sagging economy. In fact, he said "they just think I'm an ...
Long shots after that are California and New York -- you can consider Washington in that category because if Rossi decides to run here he will beat Murray by anywhere from 3 to 15 percent. But he supposedly wants to "run the shop" i.e. ...
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Washington memoirs are all about settling scores. Karl Rove's “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight” takes that tradition to new and self-parodying heights. To read Rove's recollections of George W. Bush's ...
Ezra Klein at The Washington Post reports: “The filibuster has been abused,” Sen. Harry Reid said at a reporter's briefing this afternoon. “But next Congress, we are going to take a look at it. And we're going to make some changes in it ...
Individual tickets for the Washington Nationals 2010 season are now available, including tickets to all 81 regular season games at Nationals Park, including Opening Day vs. the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday, April 5, ...
