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ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos: Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), Reps.
Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), and a
round table with ABC's George Will, Liz Cheney,
Aspen Institute's Walter Isaacson and Robert Reich.
Bloomberg ...
Congress
Foreign Policy
Tom Coburn
Carly Fiorina
Bill Nelson
CNN
Barack Obama
Sen. Carl Levin , the Michigan Democrat who heads the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee that will investigate the deadly Fort Hood shootings, calls them an act of terrorism.
While some officials, including fellow Democrat President Obama in the early post-shooting hours, ...
Congress
Carl Levin
Appropriations Committee
Afghanistan
Mark Levin
U.S. Army
Weekly Remarks by President Obama, as provided by the White House Hi. I’m recording this message from Seoul, South Korea, as I finish up my first presidential trip to Asia. As we emerge from the worst recession in generations, there is nothing more important than to do ...
World
Barack Obama
Foreign Policy
Mike Crapo
Health care
Text of Pres. Obama's remarks to U.S. Troops at Osan Air Base, as provided by the White House
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Osan! (Applause.) It is good to be here! (Applause.) Thank you so much. First of all, please give Staff Sergeant Randy Gray a big round of ...
World
Barack Obama
Based on the above video (found here ), the scene in Noblesville, Ind., at the end of Sarah Palin's appearance looked more like a protest than a book signing.
Outside the Borders bookstore in Noblesville (wouldn't it be great if it was a Barnes & Noble in Noblesville?), ...
White House
Sarah Palin
According to Chicago Mayor Richard "Have a Nice Day" Daley , you can just blame (credit) that dad-gummed media again for chasing that Windy City institution Oprah off of television after compiling a personal federal reserve of only about $2.3 billion.
Oprah has announced ...
White House
Oprah Winfrey
Barack Obama
We take a break from our regularly scheduled U.S. politics to bring you this (not) very important bulletin:
A Canadian lawmaker insulted a rival member of the Parliament on Twitter -- while the fellow was sitting at the same table.
" Del Mastro should grow up (not out)," wrote ...
World
Canada
Never shy about $eeking money, Democrat President Obama's Organizing for America is now using the threat of Republican Sarah Palin as an opportunity to acquire more.
It has just sent an e-mail out to its millions of supporters today pleading for urgent donations to fight the mother of ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Barack Obama
Foreign Policy
Health care
Every election cycle in the Silver State, some public figure makes the same blunder. They – or one of their surrogates – mispronounce the state’s name.
Here, it’s Nuh-VAD-uh.
Not Nuh-VAHD-uh.
Nuh-VAD-uhns are sensitive to this. We’re not sure why. More than two-thirds of ...
Congress
Harry Reid
The Senate Ethics Committee admonished Sen. Roland Burris today for being "less than candid" about his contacts with impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich in the months before Burris' appointment to the Senate.
In a letter to the Illinois Democrat, the ethics panel said it ...
Congress
Roland Burris
Barack Obama
Rod Blagojevich
He could go down as the first Republican to spar with conservative icon Rush Limbaugh and live to talk about it.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told the Hudson Union Society some weeks ago that Republican attacks on President Obama for everything from visiting Dover Air Force Base ...
White House
Barack Obama
Mike Huckabee
Sarah Palin
Rush Limbaugh
President Obama is just back from an eight-day trip to Asia. Perhaps he hoped to sleep in a bit today.
But amid growing discontent over the administration's handling of the economy -- and new revelations about misspent or at least misreported stimulus funds -- anger on Capitol Hill ...
White House
Timothy Geithner
Barack Obama
Regular Ticket readers know how much we enjoy the Onion.
This video was too good to resist. (It might take a moment to load.)
So in honor of casual Friday, here's that important institution's faux report on an important disaster that reportedly threw the president and his entire ...
White House
Barack Obama
In the latest chapter of the ACORN video scandal, conservative activist James O'Keefe tonight posted footage he secretly recorded this year at the community organizing group's South Los Angeles office.
In the footage, O'Keefe (posing as a student at USC) and Hannah Giles (pretending to be ...
Congress
James Inhofe
ACORN
The latest version of the healthcare bill may have to be airlifted from the Senate floor. It weighs in at a whopping 2,074 pages.
The House's version was certainly large at 1,990 pages, but this new one adds some hefty love handles. The table of contents alone takes up 14 pages.
As ...
World
Foreign Policy
Health care
Much like the man who inspires it, the new George W. Bush Presidential Center will be a combination of Texas style and East Coast tradition. That’s the word on the renderings of the 225-square-foot, $250-million center.
The plans for the center, to be built at Southern Methodist ...
White House
George W. Bush
Republican National Convention
We salute Slate and the New Republic , whose quick-thinking staffers decided to produce an index for Sarah Palin’s bestselling book, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” Some had speculated that Palin decided not to put an index in the back of her book to thwart the ...
White House
Sarah Palin
John McCain
A few minutes before Mitt Romney spoke to conservative donors at a dinner hosted by the Young America's Foundation conference in Santa Barbara this month, he made a surprise appearance before a roomful of student attendees who had been squeezed out of the dinner due to lack of space.
...
White House
Mitt Romney
Republican National Committee
A few weeks ago, Fox News had the White House on the defensive. Network anchors were scoring political points by ridiculing President Obama for ignoring the largest news cable audience in television. Glenn Beck pounded green-jobs czar Van Jones , who eventually resigned.
Today, it's Fox News ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Fox News
Should the U.S. government move Santa Claus to the front of the line for H1N1 shots?
As the Christmas season approaches, malls are already setting up thrones for Santa, welcoming kids to jump in Santa's lap and whisper all their secret hopes in his ear. As for Santas, they're ...
