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Obama Selects Summers To Lead National Economic Council, Gibbs As Press Secretary ABC News reports that President-elect Obama “has decided to name former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers the director of the National Economic Council, essentially the president’s senior economic adviser.” Also today, Obama named his campaign spokesperson Robert Gibbs as White House press secretary and Ellen Moran of Emily’s List as communications director.... |
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Freedom’s Watch Attacks Democratic Senate Candidate Whose Daughter Was Kidnapped As Being Soft On Crime. Yesterday, the struggling Freedom’s Watch released an attack ad against Georgia’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jim Martin, saying that he “failed to look out for Georgia’s families.” “First he actually helped block stiffer penalties for drunk drivers,” warns the voice in the ad, which echoes previous GOP ads. “And then, Martin voted against tough... |
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Chambliss Skips Vote On Unemployment Benefits While Giving A Campaign Speech On Unemployment On Thursday, Georgia’s Department of Labor announced that the state’s unemployment levels rose to 7 percent in October, the highest in 16 years; approximately 43,093 unemployed Georgians are looking for work. That same day, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), who is locked in a tough run-off election battle with Democrat Jim Martin, gave a campaign speech [...]... |
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California Unemployment Rate Jumps To 8.2 Percent, Third Highest In U.S. The LA Times reports that California’s unemployment rate soared to a 14-year high in October, hitting 8.2%. The most populous state “shed 26,400 people from its payroll last month, raising the total number of lost jobs to 101,300 since October 2007.” Analysts predict “the situation is about to get worse.” The state’s rate ranks third [...]... |
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Jindal In Iowa This Weekend. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) traveled Friday to Iowa, “a state that is pivotal to a presidential campaign, in a trip that has heightened speculation that [he] is planning a presidential bid in 2012.” Jindal tamped down the speculation, stating, “I’m not running for president.” The highlight of Jindal’s visit will be tonight’s keynote address [...]... |
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Top Scientist Says Bush’s ‘burrowing’ Of Political Appointees Will ‘leave Wreckage Behind.’ Yesterday, the president of the nation’s largest general science organization railed against efforts by the Bush administration to give political appointees “permanent federal jobs with responsibility for making or administering scientific policies, saying the result would be ‘to leave wreckage behind.’” James McCarthy, who heads the American Association for the Advan... |
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REPORT: Bush’s Backward Sprint To The Finish In its “sprint to the finish,” the Bush administration is working tirelessly to enact or alter a wide array of federal regulations that would weaken government rules protecting consumers, workers, and the environment. As Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, told the Wall Street Journal, “This administration [...]... |
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GM Execs Give Up Some Private Jets After Embarassing Hearing. Earlier this week, Big Three automaker CEOs were ridiculed by members of Congress for taking private jets to Washington to plea for a federal bailout. Today, ABC reports that GM is putting two of its five corporate jets out of service allegedy “in response to the planes not being used” and not a reaction to [...]... |
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Reports: Clinton Accepts Secretary Of State Nomination; Geithner And Richardson Also Likely Cabinet Choices. The New York Times reports that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) “has decided to give up her Senate seat and accept the position of secretary of state.” According to MSNBC, it is “also expected Monday” that New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson will be named Commerce Secretary,” and New York Fed President Tim Geithner is expected to [...]... |
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AP Suspends Use Of Army Photos After Digital Alterations. The U.S. Army recently released a photograph of four-star Gen. Ann Dunwoody, showing her in front of an American flag. However, it has now been revealed that the picture was digitally altered. In the original photo, Dunwoody was sitting at a desk: The Army insists that it broke no guidelines by altering the picture, but [...]... |
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Rove Claims Stock Market Is Dropping Because Obama Hasn’t Named His Treasury Secretary Yet Yesterday, stocks plunged for the second straight day, bringing “the Dow’s two-day drop to 873 points, or 10.6 percent, its worst two-day percentage loss since October 1987.” On Fox News last night, former Bush adviser Karl Rove tried to pin the blame for the drop on President-elect Barack Obama. Though he admitted that there had been [...]... |
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O’Reilly: Internet Has A Well-known Liberal Bias. Summoning the mythical boogeyman of the Fairness Doctrine — which would require broadcasters to provide a variety of political views on publicly-owned airwaves — Fox News host Bill O’Reilly warned last night that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “wants total control” over radio airwaves and would seek to reinstate the policy. He claimed that the media [...]... |
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Proposed SOFA Agreement Requires Congressional Approval Because It Contains Treaty Commitment Our guest blogger is Peter Juul, a Research Associate at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. In Iraq, the proposed Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the United States is generating a heated and near-violent debate in parliament. But here in the United States, the Bush administration has kept a tight lid on the contents [...]... |
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Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott Retiring. Wal-Mart Chief Executive Officer Lee Scott will retire effective Feb. 1, 2009. He will be replaced by Mike Duke, who currently heads the company’s international operations. While Wal-Mart has made constructive efforts to tackle the health care crisis and establish more environmentally-friendly business practices under Scott’s tenure, it has also worked tirelessly to erode workers’ [...]... |
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Maddow Fails To Question Huckabee On His Recent Anti-Gay Statements; Update: Maddow Responds Since Prop. 8’s passage in California, which revoked same-sex couples’ right to marry, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has been a powerful outspoken advocate of the rights of gay citizens. “The amendment does not just prohibit gay rights. It takes away rights previously enjoyed,” she said. She has also called the vote a “rebuke to the [...]... |
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Shiite Protesters Burn Bush Effigy In Baghdad Square To Protest Security Pact. The AP reports that Shiite protesters “stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein with their sandals five years earlier.” Shiites were protesting the proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact because it would allow American troops to remain in [...]... |
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Cheney-inspired Bullet-proof Jackets On Sale. Miguel Caballero, “a Colombian tailor who has made a fortune from selling bullet-proof fashion to presidents, oligarchs, celebrities,” is marketing a new line of stylish bullet-proof jackets. The jackets are apparently inspired by Vice President Dick Cheney’s now-famous shooting accident: “This is a new market for us. Dick Cheney has helped raise awareness of accidents,” said [...]... |
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ThinkFast: November 21, 2008 President-elect Obama will reportedly nominate Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state after Thanksgiving and may tap ret. Gen. Jim Jones as his National Security Adviser. Obama is “getting foreign policy advice from an unlikely source: Republican Brent Scowcroft, who was national security adviser in the first Bush administration.” Obama will not immediately move to repeal [...]... |
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State Dept: Bush’s Record On ‘Pushing For Human Rights’ Is As Good As Any Other President Or Country Today, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Libyan leader Moamer Gadhafi’s son, Seif al-Islam. In a press briefing yesterday leading up to the meeting, reporters pressed State Dept. spokesperson Sean McCormack on whether Rice would urge Libya to release Libyan activist Fathi al-Jahmi, a political prisoner who is gravely ill. McCormack offered a defensive [...]... |
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Fox News Chief Roger Ailes Signs Up For Five More Years. Rupert Murdoch’announced today that Fox News’s top executive, Roger Ailes, has signed a five year contract extension with News Corp. “Roger has done a remarkable job building FOX News into a force in journalism and built a great asset for News Corporation,” said Murdoch in a statement. Ailes said that he looks “forward to carrying [...]... |
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