Politico: Organizing for America is blasting this video out to its Massachusetts list, recorded by the president on Martha Coakley’s behalf. Obama frames it with a recognition of the incredibly high national stakes: “It’s clear now that the outcome of these and other fights will probably rest on one vote in the U.S. Senate,” he [...]
NewsBusters: On Thursday, the cast of MSNBC’s Morning Joe was “shocked” and “horrified” about Rush Limbaugh’s lack of “compassion” on Wednesday for suggesting Obama would exploit the disaster in Haiti to shore up his black base. White House reporter Chuck Todd, the mildest critic, complained: “You would assume he’d have a little more compassion about [...]
The Hill: Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), who briefly announced his retirement last cycle but then opted to seek another term, will not run for reelection in 2010, a GOP source confirms. Shadegg becomes the third Republican to announce his retirement in recent weeks. He joins Reps. Henry Brown (R-S.C.) and George Radanovich (R-Calif.). Democrats pursued [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Striving to reach a deal on health care, President Barack Obama planned a trip to Congress on Thursday to urge rank-and-file House Democrats to yield on key issues still standing in the way of a historic legislative achievement. Obama’s late afternoon visit comes amid intense White House negotiations with Democratic leaders aimed [...]
Boston Herald: Surging GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown yesterday warned President Obama to “stay away†from the Bay State during his roiling race against Democratic rival Martha Coakley and not to interfere with their intensifying battle in the campaign’s final days. “He should stay away and let Martha and I discuss the issues one on [...]
STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) – A former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq is facing child-sex charges. Scott Ritter of Delmar, N.Y., is charged in Pennsylvania with unlawful sexual contact with a minor for alleged online exchanges with police posing as a 15-year-old girl. The Pocono Record first reported the case Thursday. Monroe County authorities say they [...]
National Journalism: A year into his tenure, a majority of Americans would already vote against Pres. Obama if the ’12 elections were held today, according to a new survey. The Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll shows 50% say they would probably or definitely vote for someone else. Fully 37% say they would definitely cast a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of newly laid-off workers requesting unemployment benefits rose last week as jobs remain scarce amid a sluggish economic recovery. The Labor Department says new claims for unemployment insurance rose by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 444,000. Wall Street economists polled by Thomson Reuters expected an increase of only 3,000. A [...]
Fox News: President Obama will propose fees of 15 basis points on so-called high-risk transactions of big banks and financial institutions who derive profits from trades in derivatives and other complex financial instruments. A senior administration official said Obama’s proposal is designed to take affect June 30 and run for at least ten years, and [...]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Turning pickup trucks into ambulances and doors into stretchers, Haitians are frantically struggling to save those injured in this week’s earthquake while hoping foreign governments will quickly begin sending in aid. It wasn’t clear early Thursday if any cargo planes had arrived, but the U.S. and other nations said they were sending [...]
ISLAMABAD (AP) – Suspected U.S. missiles killed at least 12 alleged militants Thursday in a compound formerly used as a religious school in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region, officials said, the eighth such attack in two weeks. Taliban leader Baitulah Mehsud was the primary target, U.S. Army officials confirmed. The strike illustrated the Obama administration’s [...]
Politico: Barack Obama came to town a year ago to change the way politics worked, and Organizing for America was to be his instrument. The successor to his campaign organization, with the largest e-mail list in America, was poised — many observers thought at the time — to bring the campaign’s movement fervor and Web-centric [...]
WASHINGTON – The would-be Christmas Day bomber boarded his flight in Amsterdam to frigid Detroit with no coat — perhaps the final warning sign that went unnoticed leading up to what could have been a catastrophic terrorist attack, lawmakers were told. Congress got its first behind-the-scenes look Wednesday at the botched airline bombing and officials [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Dexter” star Michael C. Hall is undergoing treatment for cancer and the disease is in remission, a spokesman said. “I feel fortunate to have been diagnosed with an imminently treatable and curable condition, and I thank my doctors and nurses for their expertise and care,” Hall, 38, said Wednesday in a [...]
