Top Dems: Obama Won't Get Health Care Bill in 2009 Catch a Clue Time: Obama on Oct. "I am absolutely confident that we are going to get health care done by the end of this year, and Nancy Pelosi is just as confident."
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Yesterday's election results out of Michigan were among the strongest signals yet that Americans want less federal intervention in the economy. Luckily for incumbent politicians, this election occurred not in voting booths but in America's auto showrooms. On the ballot presented to American consumers were two government-run U.S. companies, General Motors and Chrysler, and one shareholder-run U.S. auto manufacturer, Ford Motor Co. Voting with their wallets,
It may be a school night, but the First Tweens are staying up late. Michelle Obama took her daughters to a Miley Cyrus concert at the Verizon Center this evening. It’s not the first time Malia and Sasha have seen the teen queen, whose hit "Party in the U.S.A." reached number one on the Billboard Pop 100 chart last Friday.
An 11-year-old girl became one of the world's youngest mothers - after she went into labor at her wedding. Kordeza Zhelyazkova, from Sliven, Bulgaria, was still wearing her wedding dress and tiara when she was rushed to the hospital, where she gave birth to a 5-pound, 8-ounce girl.
Trenton, N.J. - Republican Chris Christie has taken an early lead in a tight New Jersey governor's race with Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine (KOHR'-zyn). With 32 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night, Christie had 51 percent of the vote and Corzine about 42. Independent candidate Chris Daggett, who had been feared as a spoiler, had about 5 percent. An Associated Press exit poll showed that the race was too close too call
New Jersey Democrats have admitted that a series of robocalls on behalf of third party candidate for governor Chris Daggett were paid for by the Democratic State Committee - final proof that Daggett has been a spoiler for Republican Chris Christie all along. Matt Friedman of Politiker New Jersey writes: A Democratic spokeswoman says the party's chairman, Joe Cryan, was not aware of the robocalls when he denied that the state
Jody Powell, who died on September 14 aged 65, was the sharp-witted, drawling White House press secretary under Jimmy Carter whose briefings reflected his master’s determination to be as honest and candid with the American people as circumstances would permit. He was not only a member of the president’s “Georgia mafia” but his oldest and most trusted aide. On the campaign trail he began by revealing that Carter’s net
The Atlantic’s Chris Good has an interesting breakdown on who spent what on New York’s hotly-contested 23rd congressional district race. The big news: The Club for Growth spent more than $1 million in support of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. That’s slightly less than the $1.1 million the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chipped in behalf of Democrat Bill Owens. Meanwhile, the National
Donald Black, who has died aged 76, was only 20 when he won a Military Cross in the Korean War for his role in fierce hand-to-hand fighting with Chinese troops. Black had begun his National Service with the Black Watch in early 1951, and was commissioned later that year and posted to Berlin. In 1952 the regiment was sent to Korea as part of the Commonwealth Brigade supporting the United Nations force. The Chinese had invaded
Washington – President Obama is not planning to watch Tuesday nights election returns, Obama aides Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod tell CNN. Obama is more likely to watch Tuesday night's Chicago Bulls game than any political coverage, according to Axelrod. The president's senior staff have also decided not to hold a watch party to keep an eye on election returns as they come in. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was spotted
Lord Mandelson will today seek private talks with the board of General Motors to discuss the future of about 5,500 Vauxhall workers in Britain after the American car giant scrapped advanced plans to sell its European business. GM had agreed to sell Opel and Vauxhall to Magna, a Canadian car parts supplier, to raise cash after almost being bankrupted this year. Last night the board of GM met in Detroit, where the carmaker is
EAST BRUNSWICK -- An hour before the polls closed, the only activity at Gov. Jon Corzine headquarters consisted of reporters grabbing interviews with the few stray party operatives and pundits milling about an otherwise empty ballroom at the East Brunswick Hilton. On the streets, State Democratic Chairman Joe Cryan said he witnessed "a lot of energy in the city of Newark, and around the state." He declined to react to Republican
There's been plenty of talk by political pundits that Virginia's gubernatorial contest was a referendum on President Barack Obama, but voters don't agree, according to data from CNN exit polls of people voting Tuesday in that state's gubernatorial contest. Fifty-five percent of Virgina voters polled say that Obama was not a factor in how they voted, with 24 percent suggesting that their vote was meant to express opposition to the president,
CLEVELAND, Ohio - A convicted rapist was charged with multiple murders on Tuesday after police dug up 10 corpses at his home, which produced a stench of death in the depressed Cleveland neighborhood. (Snip) Four bodies were found in the back yard, while six others were discovered elsewhere on the property, including in the basement of the house. A skull wrapped in a paper bag in a bucket could be an eleventh victim.
The Associated Press has called the Virginia governor's race for Bob McDonnell, marking the first time a Republican has won election as the state's top executive in a dozen years. McDonnell, who stepped down this year as state attorney general to launch a full-time campaign, sailed to victory will a broad margin. He will begin his four year term January.
WASHINGTON – Republicans wrested political control of Virginia from the Democrats on Tuesday as independent voters swung behind the GOP, a troubling sign for President Barack Obama and his party heading into an important midterm election year. Exit polls showed unpopular Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine locked in a close race in New Jersey, where independents were heavily favoring his Republican challenger. Republican Gov.-
Gold prices on Tuesday surged to an all-time high after India’s central bank bought 200 tonnes of the precious metal, swapping dollars for bullion as the country’s finance minister warned the economies of the US and Europe had “collapsed”. India’s decision to exchange $6.7bn for gold equivalent to 8 per cent of world annual mine production sent the strongest signal yet that Asian countries were moving away from the US currency.
WASHINGTON - Some 700 million people worldwide, or more than all the adults of North and South America combined, think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and want to permanently move to another country, a poll showed Tuesday. Residents of sub-Saharan African countries were the most likely to want to move abroad permanently, the polls conducted in 135 countries between 2007 and this year by Gallup
"They hate us. They want to kill us. So what are we going to do about it?" These are not the words one would expect to hear about Palestinians at the Oct. 25-28 first annual conference of the left-tilting J-Street, let alone from a left-wing rabbi who has worked extensively for Palestinian human rights. Rabbis for Human Rights Executive Director Arik Ascherman, though, believes that delusion serves no one's interests, least of all those who
WASHINGTON — President Obama's 2008 campaign manager says the conventional wisdom on Obama that he's governing as an incrementalist rather than a visionary leader is "ridiculous" and won't hold up if Congress passes health care and energy-saving legislation. "There's nothing incremental about that," says David Plouffe, one of the masterminds behind Obama's improbable election. "This story line will go away." Plouffe's new book,
Republican Robert F. McDonnell is off to a sizable early lead in the race for Virginia governor based on the early exit polls, but it is too soon to call the contest. (Snip) There was little sign of the blue tide that swept the state a year ago and played a pivotal role in the election of Barack Obama as the nation's 44th president. Instead, voters seemed at least as likely to be voting against the Obama agenda as for it. For each Virginia voter
Democrats should heed a warning inside the numbers in the Virginia gubernatorial race -- independent drift and a significant drop off among young voters. In 2008, candidate Obama won independent voters in Virginia, 49%-48%, according to exit polls. But the exits in this year's contest show that independents abandoned Creigh Deeds (D) and went overwhelmingly for the Republican, Bob McDonnell, 63%-36%. Voters, age 18-29, made
Junk Science: The oracle of climate disaster has a new book out on global warming that should be on the fiction list. He asks us to commit economic suicide while he rakes in millions from his green investments. 'Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis," Al Gore's sequel to his 2006 tome "An Inconvenient Truth," came out Tuesday. Printed on recycled paper using low-VOC (volatile organic compound) ink, it will undoubtedly be a
Several years ago, then-Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, took HIV tests on a trip to Kenya. Their purpose was to publicize the critical nature of the test -- and counteract the stigma that prevents people from taking it. That stigma aids and abets the disease. Each year, 56,000 new cases of HIV/AIDs are diagnosed in the United States, most of which could have been prevented if people knew their own HIV status, practiced
Virginia elections officials reported a few hiccups at polls, but nothing big so far. And they’re hinting at a surge-free election day. (Snip) If absentee ballots are any indication, turnout is going to resemble the 2005 numbers far more closely than 2008. For the last gubernatorial election, which had 45 percent turnout, 75,982 Virginians voted absentee. Rodrigues said 120,916 absentee application have been approved this year, with 98,955
A year ago, almost to the minute, I was here in New York, watching television reports of the aftermath of the election of Barack Obama as 44th President of the United States of America. I recall the sight of a lachrymose woman from the Midwest, standing outside her run-down house as the sun rose, giving thanks for her deliverance: not from George W Bush, but from the threat of foreclosure. I have no idea whether this poor woman kept the
A New Jersey hospital is denying accusations that ACORN workers have been inside collecting absentee ballots for the state's gubernatorial race. East Orange General Hospital CEO Kevin Slavin said Tuesday that ''all proper protocols'' were followed as part of its program to allow patients to vote via absentee ballot, and that no third-party groups were signing up patients. "Other than the specifically designated and trained staff to hand out and
