obamanoms.com - 1/8/2009
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Tracking Executive & Judicial Nominations Eric Holder pushed for controversial clemency L.A. Times Eric Holder Secrets of Solis Wall Street Journal Hilda Solis Key Questions for Senator Tom Daschle, Nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services Heritage Foundation Tom Daschle Key ...
latimes.com - 1/9/2009
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latimes.com —
Reporting from Washington -- Attorney general nominee Eric
H. Holder Jr. repeatedly pushed some of his subordinates
at the Clinton Justice Department to drop their opposition to a controversial 1999 grant of clemency to 16 members of two violent ...
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thehill.com - 1/9/2009
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A dour jobs report and the influence organized
labor will have with the Obama administration dominated the
confirmation hearing of Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) as Labor secretary. Democratic lawmakers seized on a new report released Friday stating that ...
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Solis pressed on jobs report, card-check
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Obama Nominee Expedited Pardons of Terrorists
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... This issue needs to be fully explored by the Senate Judiciary Committee and explained by Eric Holder. Furthermore Holder should be forced to answer the following questions as posted on Obamanoms.com: ...
Bungle-mania: A D’OHbama Transition Progress Report
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... about the policies and regulations she would oversee. ObamaNoms.com has all the latest on other brewing problems. The Associated Press, carrying water for their dear leader, tries to convince us that Obama has been ...
Of course we WANT Obama to fail. The policies he does enact WILL fail. And America will succeed in spite of it.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Rush Limbaugh asked a genuine question this weekend at the CPAC Conference in Washington in response to the supposed controversy surrounding his comment a few weeks back that he “wants Obama to fail.” He asked this time (see here and here):
“So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation?”
Seems like a reasonable question, doesn’t it?
Some, however, like to distort this seemingly uncontroversial and ...
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that House committees will begin action on President-elect Barack Obama's proposed economic recovery package in the next couple of weeks, with a vote in the full House slated for the week after Obama's inauguration. ...