White House political food fight “Counterproductive”
March 5, 2009
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Robert Gibbs admitted that the WH Rush Limbaugh strategy is counterproductive.
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White House deflects Judd Gregg link to Abramoff
February 7, 2009
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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs indicated this afternoon that the nomination of Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire as commerce secretary would not be imperiled by a former staffer emerging in the investigation of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The Associated Press is reporting that Kevin Koonce, who worked as legislative director in Gregg’s Senate office from 2002 to 2004, was the “Staffer F” cited in a guilty plea last week by Todd Boulanger, a former deputy to Abramoff, who said he gave the staffer front-row tickets to a hockey game and other tickets to a baseball game, and in exchange received favors in spending legislation.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/02/white_house_def.html
Rachel Maddow Show – Rep. Barbara Lee discusses the nomination of Judd Gregg as Commerce Secretary
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Think Progress
- Conservatives Co-Opt Christmas: ‘Tis The Season To Kill Health Care Reform December 16, 2009Conservatives turned out on Capitol Hill today for a “Code Red Rally” to “kill” health care reform legislation, organized by groups such as the right-wing Americans for Prosperity (AFP). The Tax Day Tea Party website promoted the event by appealing to Americans to make a “sacrifice” right before Christmas and promised plan […]
- Dick Armey sneers at ‘a woman named Maddox’ who ‘has a Ph.D. in something that doesn’t matter.’ December 15, 2009During today’s AFP-sponsored “Code Red” anti-health reform rally on Capitol Hill, one of the speakers — former House Majority Leader and current corporate defender Dick Armey — derided MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. Armey was prepared to introduce Sen. Tom Coburn (whom he bizarrely referred to as “Doc Colbin” a couple of times), but Coburn wasn’t [... […]
- Latino Group Invokes The Bible To Counter A Pastor’s Census Boycott Campaign, Encourage Participation December 15, 2009Earlier this year, the Rev. Miguel Rivera, chairman of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders, began encouraging a full-out boycott of the U.S. Census on behalf of the Latino and immigrant community in protest of the failure to enact immigration reform. Rivera’s efforts have been widely perceived as damaging to [...]
Yahoo! News: Politics News
- AP Exclusive: Tourists enjoy White House breakfast
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AP - It wasn't a state dinner, and they didn't crash it on purpose. Still, a Georgia couple who showed up at the White House a day early for a tour somehow wound up at an invitation-only breakfast with President Barack Obama and the first lady. It left the White House once again explaining how people who were not on an event guest list wound up bei […]
- Upbeat Obama says Senate near health care passage
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AP - Prodded by President Barack Obama, Senate Democrats won tentative backing from one holdout and worked intensely to satisfy another Tuesday as they grappled with the last, lingering disputes blocking passage of health care legislation by Christmas.
- Ill. town welcomes plan to house Gitmo detainees
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AP - The White House decision to move up to 100 Guantanamo Bay detainees to this dying Mississippi River town has folks here seeing dollar signs, not suspected terrorists.
CNN.com – Politics
- Lieberman ready to back health care bill -- with caveats December 15, 2009Sen. Joe Lieberman said Tuesday he is prepared to back the bill if it excludes both a public option and a Medicare provision
- D.C. council votes to legalize same-sex marriage December 15, 2009The nation's capital took a major step Tuesday toward legalizing same-sex marriage
- Marines eager, wary about leading surge into Afghanistan December 15, 2009Marines a part of the initial wave of President Obama's surge head to Afghanistan this week
- Millions of Bush administration e-mails recovered December 15, 2009Computer technicians have recovered about 22 million Bush administration e-mails that the White House had said were missing
- Comment: Iraq puts Blair's integrity on line December 14, 2009By confessing that he would still have joined the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq even if he had known Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has whooshed himself straight back into the headlines.
- Senate approves government funding bill December 13, 2009The U.S. Senate on Sunday approved $447 billion in spending for the 2010 budget year -- money needed to fund the federal government after this week.
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