Four Democratic senators aim to halt stimulus wind project
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 4th, 2010 5:37 am by HL
Four Democratic senators aim to halt stimulus wind project
A group of Democratic senators called Wednesday for the government to halt a federal stimulus program aimed at building wind farms and other clean-energy projects, arguing that too much of the money spent so far has gone to create jobs overseas.
Conservatives raise ruckus over Justice appointees’ prior work with detainees
Conservatives who are unhappy with the decision to close the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have trained their fire on an unusual target: political appointees in the Obama Justice Department who represented detainees earlier in their careers.
Democrats vow quick end to ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ as Senate bill is introduced
Leading Senate Democrats pledged Wednesday to move quickly to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces rather than wait, as the Pentagon has requested, for the military to complete a lengthy review.
Karl Rove’s memoir takes to the defense of the Bush legacy
Former president George W. Bush did not mislead the nation about weapons of mass destruction as a way to “lie us” into war, his former top political aide, Karl Rove, asserts in a new memoir, “Courage and Consequence.”
Republican fundraising document portrays Democrats as evil
Democrats on Wednesday sharply criticized a Republican National Committee fundraising document that caricatured President Obama as the Joker, while Chairman Michael S. Steele sought to distance himself from it.
