RNC’s finance director behind controversial fundraising pitch
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 6th, 2010 5:37 am by HL
RNC’s finance director behind controversial fundraising pitch
In the three days since the leak of a confidential and crude Republican fundraising pitch, the party’s leaders have scrambled to distance themselves from the 72-page PowerPoint depiction of President Obama as a socialist Joker — and from the man behind it. Michael S. Steele, the Republican National Committee chairman, declared the pitch inappropriate and said it was the work of a “staffer.”
Obama must decide degree to which U.S. swears off nuclear weapons
President Obama’s top national security advisers will within days present him with an agonizing choice on how to guide U.S. nuclear weapons policy for the rest of his term.
Michigan’s Sander Levin replaces Rangel as House Ways and Means chairman
House Democrats elevated Sander M. Levin (D-Mich.), a pro-union, anti-free-trade liberal who is a close ally of the auto industry, to chairman of the Ways and Means Committee on Thursday.
Massa resigns; Democrats’ ethical lapses could threaten hold on power
Congressional Democrats reclaimed control of Congress in 2006 by pledging to “drain the swamp” after Republican ethics scandals rocked Capitol Hill. Now, a series of controversies involving Democratic members has robbed the party of its claim to hold the higher moral ground — and could threaten its hold on power in this fall’s elections.
