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No one felt very good about Thursday's inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's second term. The White House, recognizing the necessity of a close ally in Kabul but the need for our complicated relationship with Karzai to change, is hitting reset. The Washington Post's ...
World
Afghanistan
The New York Daily News suggested Thursday that, according to one source, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani might use a run for Senate--if he wins--as a launching pad for taking another stab at the White House in 2012. Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign went down in flames, more or less, ...
Congress
Rudy Giuliani
Pretty interesting polling numbers for Sen. Blanche Lincoln and John McCain. Throw in the trouble brewing in SC for Lindsay Graham, and that poll after poll, and Tim Geinther's pounding on The Hill, shows people think government is helping Wall Street and big corporations and not them, and you ...
Congress
President Obama's job approval rating has dipped to 49 percent in the most recent numbers from Gallup--the lowest number Gallup has given him since his inauguration. It makes him the fourth fastest president, since Gallup started keeping track of Truman, to fall below 50 percent--behind Ford (3 ...
White House
Gallup Poll
Barack Obama
From the political consultants who brought you Rick Santorum and Tom Ridge, a behind-the-scenes moc-u-mentary of American politics: Zolitics presents Moving Numbers . I like to call it Rick Brabender gone wild. Love the Frank Luntz in-jokes. Moving Numbers Episode 2: "Whatever It Takes" from ...
Other
Rick Santorum
Tom Ridge
Frank Luntz
In case your local Barnes & Noble is out of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue: An American Story"...or in case you don't want to wait in line for a signature, don't worry: there's another way. Palin's political group, SarahPAC, is selling signed copies for donations of $100 or more . It just sent ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA), who knows a thing or two about being a swing vote in the Senate on major pieces of legislation, says he thinks Democratic leaders will get the 60 votes needed to advance health care reform in its first vote on Saturday. "Getting 60 votes is never easy, but I believe ...
Congress
Arlen Specter
It's the next round in the ongoing battle between organized labor and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: paid sick leave in light of the swine flu epidemic. Labor has long supported mandatory paid sick leave. Now, in light of the H1N1 flu epidemic, labor and labor-friendly Democrats are trying to ...
Congress
Jonathan Van Meter profiles Hillary Clinton in the latest issue of Vogue, and he's got some nice tidbits about how Clinton came to be Secretary of State. With all the post-primary bitterness between the two camps, and all the speculation that she might be named VP, Clinton was apparently quite ...
White House
Barack Obama
Hillary Rodham Clinton
The conventional wisdom on Sarah Palin is that she's a divisive figure, and, from what polls tell us, that's true: according to Pollster.com's average ,
38 percent of Americans hold a favorable view of her, while 49.2
percent view her unfavorably. So she's in minus territory--11.2 percent
more ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Mike Huckabee
Mitt Romney
The Senate will vote on Majority Leader Harry Reid's health care package on Saturday. Will it pass? If it doesn't, how big of a setback will it be to Democratic health reform?
Congress
Harry Reid
Bud Day
It's Friday! The day that Congress goes home for a nice, long weekend of reconnoitering with constituents and...except there's a health care bill to consider. The Senate will stay in DC today--and tomorrow--for a Saturday vote on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's health care bill. In the ...
World
Washington, D.C
Harry Reid
Tracking the GOP race to 2012 Bobby Jindal is giving $10,000 donated to him by an accused fraudster to a victims' compensation fund; a source tells the New York Daily News that Rudy Giuliani wants to run for Senate--as a possible stepping stone to a 2012 bid; Sara Palin drew more than 750 ...
White House
Republican National Committee
Sarah Palin
Bobby Jindal
Rudy Giuliani
U.S. Army
The 2010 midterms are just around the corner (sort of). Here's what's happening: Rudy Giuliani will run for Senate, according to the New York Daily News; Marco Rubio has pulled to within 10 percentage points of Gov. Charlie Crist (R) in Florida's Senate race, Daily Kos/Research 2000 reports ; ...
Congress
Rudy Giuliani
Marco Rubio
Charlie Crist
ACORN
Earl Pomeroy
A crazy day of news about Rudy Giuliani: after The New York Times' report that he won't run for governor in 2010, the New York Daily News now reports that Giuliani will run for U.S. Senate in 2010, taking on incumbent Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) for Hillary Clinton's old seat. And--perhaps more ...
Congress
Rudy Giuliani
The New York Times
Kirsten Gillibrand
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Abortion isn't the main reason most opponents of Democratic health care reform dislike the proposals currently before Congress, Pew finds in a new survey . In fact, only three percent of opponents listed abortion as their main reason for opposing them, though 56 percent of those opponents list ...
Congress
Democratic senators are slow-waking President Obama's judicial nominations, something that our constitutional law professor chief executive is said to be frustrated about. The Washington Independent's chronicler of the conservative movement, David Weigel, has a theory : the White House ...
Law
Republican National Committee
So reports The New York Times , which has learned of Giuliani's decision from "people who have been told" of it. Giuliani hasn't announced it publicly, so this is all second-hand so far. This now makes Attorney General Andrew Cuomo the consensus frontrunner: Gov. David Paterson's (D) is very ...
Law
Rudy Giuliani
The New York Times
General David Petraeus
Andrew Cuomo
As it has all along throughout Democrats' health care reform initiative, the White House is projecting confidence that it will get a bill to the president's desk. After Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled his bill yesterday (available in its entirety here ), White House Communications ...
Congress
Harry Reid
Washington, D.C
Treasury Sec. Tim Geithner, speaking at a Joint Economic Hearing, got into a quite the tizzy with Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX). On one level, it's just two guys yelling at each other. On another level, it's a glimpse at why an idea as basic as "We should reform our profligate banking system" can ...
