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Former Clinton strategist Mark Penn and former Bush adviser Karen Hughes are teaming up to create a bipartisan consulting organization to advise corporations in crisis -- as they work to burnish their own reputations as well.
Posted 1min 19secs ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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The Treasury Department is continuing to consider ways to resuscitate weak homebuying activity, Paulson said, highlighting the potential of covered bonds as a "promising" solution. (Text of remarks)
Posted 20mins 19secs ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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Some senior Democratic lawmakers opened the door to a compromise that would open more land on and offshore to oil and gas exploration and production, in an effort to respond to voter concerns over fuel prices.
Posted 42mins 19secs ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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The federal government paid scam artists nearly $100 million for claims of wheelchairs, canes, prescription drugs and other items submitted under the names of dead doctors in recent years.
Posted 53mins 19secs ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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Cheney's office tried to prevent a federal official from publicly discussing the health consequences of global warming, according to a former top EPA administrator. The disclosure came as Bush met with G-8 leaders on combating climate change.
Posted 54mins 19secs ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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California officials are debating who should pick up the bill for rising firefighting costs. With 631,000 acres burned and the fire season barely under way, the state has already paid at least $112 million to battle the wildfires.
Posted 54mins 19secs ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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Federal regulators are about to expand the number of drug warnings for suicide risk, escalating worries for consumers and fueling a debate about whether the FDA is overreacting or properly alerting the public of risks it long ignored.
Posted 1hr 33mins ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday urged President Bush to release crude oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to combat high prices, a call Republicans used to bolster their push to increase domestic production with more drilling in environmentally sensitive areas.
Posted 1hr 52mins ago From CNN.com - Politics.
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Obama unveiled a proposal to protect consumers in bankruptcy, signaling the Democratic Party's further swing to the left on economic policy as financial conditions continue to deteriorate. The candidate's proposals go beyond any comprehensive plans for economic relief floated in Congress.
Posted 1hr 53mins ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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New McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt on the US Attorney firings scandal: It was "mostly a combination of nonsense and politics and provides us no concern at all."
Schmidt hired key firing scandal figure Tim Griffin after his resignation.
Posted 2hrs 58mins ago From Talking Points Memo.
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Sen. Reid said he had spoken to the Democratic leadership in the House about a second economic-stimulus package, in another attempt to bring the country out of what increasingly seems to be a severe economic downturn.
Posted 3hrs 8mins ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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Are the Rove proteges reshaping McCain's campaign? Are they cracking down on the cringey laugh and turning McCain into just one more bland teleprompter jockey? And what's the progress on scoring the budget victory numbers? We bring you all up to date in today's McCain campaign update (with special new…
Posted 4hrs 37mins ago From Talking Points Memo.
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I guess a love a good slavery joke as much as the next guy. So here's a terribly witty Jonah Goldberg column in which he belittles slavery and debt peonage by comparing them to requiring college students to do a few hours of community service in exchange for taxpayer-subsidized student loans or getting…
Posted 4hrs 47mins ago From Talking Points Memo.
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Here's the lede from the AP's latest McCain fluffer, this time from Nedra Pickler ... Barack Obama says John McCain's plan to balance the budget doesn't add up. Easy for him to say: It's not a goal he's even trying to reach. Well, easy for McCain too, since he doesn't either. Pickler doesn't mention…
Posted 5hrs 40mins ago From Talking Points Memo.
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This morning we showed you John McCain's new ad which ends with his new campaign slogan "Don't hope for a better life; vote for one." But as TPM Reader AF points out, they seem to have copied it from a late-70s slogan Saatchi & Saatchi created for the UK Tory party. From a 1997 article in the UK Telegraph…
Posted 6hrs 11mins ago From Talking Points Memo.
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It's being billed as the new and improved Sen. John McCain -- a sure-footed candidate working to reconnect with voters and recapture the magic that made him a political maverick. But will it work?
Posted 6hrs 22mins ago From CNN.com - Politics.
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Republicans were facing pressure Tuesday to vote for a rollback of across-the-board cuts in Medicare payments to health providers after a major doctors' group said the cuts could lead to a "meltdown" of the government's health care system for the elderly.
Posted 6hrs 41mins ago From CNN.com - Politics.
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Over at TPMCafe, David Sirota takes up a favorite TPM topic -- astroturfing -- and explains how it's a symptom of what he calls "autocratic progressivism," which emphasizes a top-down structure versus true grassroots organizing. Jared Bernstein responds by pushing for progressives to do both: [W]e've…
Posted 7hrs 55mins ago From Talking Points Memo.
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New York Times out of step with Associated Press on Obama's Iraq stance? Voters should understand, he said, that they rarely will find themselves in 100 percent agreement with him. "But don't assume that's because I'm just doing it for "political reasons, he said. "That just means we disagree," he said.…
Posted 8hrs 26mins ago From Talking Points Memo.
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The United States needs a new law requiring that the president consult with Congress before going to war, a blue-ribbon panel led by two former secretaries of state said Tuesday.
Posted 9hrs 2mins ago From CNN.com - Politics.
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The House oversight committee gives Attorney General Michael Mukasey until July 16 to produce subpoenaed FBI reports on interviews with the Vice President in the Plame leak investigation -- or face a contempt of Congress vote.
Posted 9hrs 47mins ago From Talking Points Memo.
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Congress is hashing out legislation that would permit venture-capital-controlled companies to win federal aid, but small businesses insist that such companies are already well financed and don't need the cash.
Posted 10hrs 12mins ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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Whether you're pro- or con on the recent and flagging neo-imperialist turn in US foreign policy, it's a bit sad when the White House has to resort to 'dog ate my homework' level excuses when a country says they don't want to remain under occupation any more. As you can see, the demand for a definite…
Posted 12hrs 24mins ago From Talking Points Memo.
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We got ahold of one of BMW Direct's mailers. This one is on behalf of Ada Fisher in her 2006 congressional campaign, when she says BMW Direct "screwed me." Take a look.
Posted 12hrs 24mins ago From Talking Points Memo.
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It's not just FISA and warrantless wiretapping. There's a whole web of government domestic surveillance that goes unnoticed and largely unregulated.
Posted 13hrs 58mins ago From Talking Points Memo.
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What role for Hillary at the convention? Negotiations continue. That and the day's other political news in the TPM Election Central Morning Roundup.
Posted 14hrs 41mins ago From Talking Points Memo.
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U.S. lawmakers are touting a home-buyer tax credit in a high-profile housing bill before Congress, but critics say it may do little to help consumers amid the mortgage crisis.
Posted 15hrs 20mins ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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The severity of the global food crisis has an unlikely barometer in the U.S.: Day camps, parents' traditional antidote for summer idleness, are now also a bulwark against soaring food prices thanks to a federal free lunch program.
Posted 23hrs 49mins ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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A new poll suggest that both Diaz-Balart brothers, Republican members of Congress from South Florida, are in real danger of losing their seats in November.
Posted 23hrs 56mins ago From Talking Points Memo.
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Congress is set to approve a bill to update FISA -- the most sweeping change in the 30-year-old law and one that may further expand the use of evidence gathered by intelligence agencies in criminal cases.
Posted 1 day ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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The FDA will seek to include strong warnings about suicidal behavior on the labels of 11 epilepsy drugs. Companies will be asked to update drug labels with black-box warnings, the most serious warnings the agency issues.
Posted 1 day 1hr ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama on Monday are focusing on the economy as they court voters in key battleground states.
Posted 1 day 5hrs ago From CNN.com - Politics.
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World leaders arrived in Japan for the G-8 summit with mixed views over this year's big initiative on greenhouse-gas limits, as the group struggles to address emerging global issues and calls for expanded membership.
Posted 1 day 18hrs ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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Lawmakers returning to their districts over the holiday recess received an earful from constituents angry about gas prices and the slumping housing market, a dynamic that could spur Congressional action to address economic anxieties.
Posted 2 days ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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Indian Prime Minister Singh appears to have secured enough support to move forward with a heavily contested nuclear-cooperation pact with the U.S., saving his coalition from possible collapse.
Posted 2 days ago From WSJ.com: Politics And Policy.
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There is a consensus developing around Washington that Barack Obama's presidential campaign is hoping to herd a dozen or so superdelegates into its camp before the end of Tuesday's primary contests - a move that would allow the Senator to officially declare a delegate victory during his speech in Minneapolis.…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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In today's hyper-partisan environment, it's like you can't hold a conference in the nation's capitol without things getting all...political. A few supporters of the studiously bipartisan American Israel Public Affairs Committee gasped in shock this morning when they heard Sen. John McCain attack his…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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Senator Obama has come under fire from William Kristol and others for not mentioning military service at Wesleyan. Frank Shaeffer has blogged about this issue and has rightly noted the importance of progressives honoring the military http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/william-kristols-hypocris_b_104674.html…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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Like alcoholics queuing up drinks at closing time, the US administration is pressing charges against prisoners at Guantánamo at a frantic rate, anxious to be seen to be validating the chronic lawlessness of the last seven years before November's presidential election. At the end of last week, four…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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As we approach June 4th, the anniversary of the tragic events that took place 19 years ago in Tiananmen Square, I find myself thinking about the loss of life of the Chinese people. In one case it was a political crisis. More recently, it was a natural disaster compounded by a political system that still…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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Hillary Clinton's camp keeps changing the rules and what they feel should determine who the nominee is. The latest one is a little hard to swallow. After Clinton's victory in Puerto Rico, now they claim that the nomination should go to whoever wins the most Commonwealths. You can reach Lloyd Garver…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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After Bill Clinton's "I want to say also, that this may be the last day I'm ever involved in a campaign of this kind" statement in South Dakota, here's how I picture his final primary morning: "Thanks for the coffee. This may be the last morning we ever pay your salary." "And this may be the second…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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Super-star NYT Op-Ed columnist Billy Kristol shot one off today that outslimed even his own epic levels of sliminess. The doughty Vietnam non-vet took Senator Obama to task for giving a commencement address at Wesleyan this weekend in which he didn't remind his "elite" audience that military service…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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I wish I had said that. How poetic! Was it Walt Whitman? No. Was it a greeting card? No. Was it my mother? I can't remember. Then who said it? It was Macy's! Yes, Macy's department store, where I worked as Santa's little helper the good fairy -- I swear that's what I was called -- when I moved to New…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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I am at the SEIU 2008 convention in Puerto Rico. Todd Beeton posted earlier today over at MyDD about the SEIU's Accountability Project and I'd like to add to this discussion. This is a big, big deal for progressives! As Andy Stern said in his address to the convention today we are tired of, "Politicians…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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Extraordinary rendition -- it sounds like a Steven Seagal movie title, but it's the practice, which the administration denied, then admitted but said it abandoned, of capturing individuals, holding them incommunicado and then shipping them off to third countries whose human-rights records are not, shall…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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In the spirit of full disclosure, I don't have a significant personal ex. Eileen and I have been together forever. Trust me when I say I am proud to say I am a one woman gal. So Hillary is as close to an ex as I plan to have. Just before the New Jersey primary, I left Hillary for Barack. At first, I…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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Tomorrow, the Democratic primary race will finally be over. Or, I should say, the primaries themselves will be over. At long last, everyone will have voted, unless (Democratic) life is discovered on Mars in the next few days. Ahem. The possibility of Martian primaries aside, though, it looks like Wednesday…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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National Review blogger Mark Krikorian is all upset at the changes that have been made to U.S. currency, fingering the redesign of the five-dollar bill as the root cause of the weakening dollar, as opposed to...I don't know...the past seven years of economic and foreign policy. Paper money has no intrinsic…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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Today, the U.S. Senate begins debate on the Climate Security Act, a critical bill that will address the global warming crisis head-on. After many months of committee hearings and testimony, our bill has finally reached the Senate floor. It's a day we've been waiting for a long time. The Climate Security…
Posted 36 days ago From Politics on HuffingtonPost.com.
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