Politico: Senate Republicans on Wednesday seized on President Barack Obama’s admission to The New York Times that “there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects,” an acknowledgement they say suggests the administration’s $814 billion economic stimulus plan is a failure. “As the trillion-dollar stimulus fails to fulfill promises, President Obama is separating himself from his own [...]
The Hill: This whole reinvention thing hasn’t started well for CNN.
The Hill: Democrats are poised to lose Rep. David Obey’s (Wis.) district — one of several long-held Democratic seats in danger of becoming Republican trophies this cycle. The Hill 2010 Midterm Election Poll found that Democrat Julie Lassa trails Republican Sean Duffy by almost 10 points in Obey’s district. Duffy leads Lassa 44-35, with 18 [...]
Politico: In the home stretch of the 2010 campaign, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, more than even President Barack Obama, is emerging as the heaviest drag on Democratic hopes of holding on to the House. In district after district, from Florida’s Gold Coast to central Ohio, in the Ozark Mountains, on the Minnesota prairie and in retiree-laden [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Copiapo, Chile — Working with machine-like efficiency, Chilean rescuers continued freeing trapped miners Wednesday morning in an operation that was broadcast live to a world that had seldom felt smaller. Rescuers pulled the 17th of the 33 men who had been trapped half a mile below the earth’s surface for [...]
lWashington Post: FORT HOOD, TEX. – Nearly a year ago, Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was getting ready to deploy to Afghanistan, where his mission was to help fellow soldiers cope with the traumas of battle. Now he is back at this massive post as a defendant, paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. Scores [...]
Washington Times: Israel’s opposition leader and a former prime minister criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday for not agreeing to a U.S.-proposed two-month extension of a West Bank settlement freeze, whose expiration has threatened to sink renewed Mideast peace talks. “Israel’s relationship with the U.S. is critical to its security,” said Tzipi Livni, head [...]
Politico: The tenth anniversary of the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole on Tuesday conjured up painful memories for the families of the 17 Navy sailors who died in the terrorist attack, but it also revealed simmering anger at the Obama administration over the lack of concrete progress in bringing the alleged perpetrators to justice. In [...]
The Hill: A Democratic candidate for Congress accused the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) of pulling its support for his campaign because he said he wouldn’t support Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as House Speaker. State Sen. Roy Herron (D), who’s running for the opening seat held by retiring Rep. John Tanner (D) in Tennessee’s 8th congressional [...]
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