Stimulus Plan Meets More GOP Resistance
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 23rd, 2009 5:32 am by HL
Stimulus Plan Meets More GOP Resistance
Just days after taking office vowing to end the political era of “petty grievances,” President Obama ran into mounting GOP opposition yesterday to an economic stimulus plan that he had hoped would receive broad bipartisan support.
A Lovely Consolation Prize for Ms. Kennedy?
C aroline Kennedy didn’t get that Senate seat from New York, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t lots of fine government jobs she would be perfect for, jobs right there in Manhattan. Take, for example, some excellent possibilities at the United Nations.
Senate Gets Reacquainted With McCain the Maverick
A joke made its way around the Capitol yesterday: How do you know the 2008 election is really over? Because John McCain is causing trouble for Republicans again.
Report Faults Financial Oversight
The U.S. financial regulatory system is seriously outdated and needs urgent reform to avoid a further worsening of the economic crisis, concludes a report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office.
Intelligence Pick Calls Torture Immoral, Ineffective
Retired Adm. Dennis C. Blair, President Obama’s nominee to lead the U.S. intelligence community, told Congress yesterday that torture “is not moral, legal or effective” and that “there will not be any waterboarding on my watch.”
