Could Be a Year Before Giffords Returns
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 24th, 2011 4:38 am by HL
Could Be a Year Before Giffords Returns
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s (D-AZ) doctor “says it will be about a year before it can be known whether she can return to Congress, bringing into question whether she will be able to meet Arizona’s May 2012 filing deadline for reelection,” Politico reports.
Insiders Doubt Debt Deal by July 1
National Journal’s Political Insiders Poll finds a majority of Democratic and Republican Members of Congress doubt that the bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Vice President Joe Biden will be able to craft a deficit-reduction plan by their self-imposed July 1 deadline.
Cellphone Shows Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistani Links
“The cellphone of Osama bin Laden’s trusted courier, which was recovered in the raid that killed both men in Pakistan last month, contained contacts to a militant group that is a longtime asset of Pakistan’s intelligence agency,” the New York Times reports.
“The discovery indicates that Bin Laden used the group, Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen, as part of his support network inside the country… But it also raised tantalizing questions about whether the group and others like it helped shelter and support Bin Laden on behalf of Pakistan’s spy agency, given that it had mentored Harakat and allowed it to operate in Pakistan for at least 20 years.”
Perry Gets Lukewarm Response at Latino Convention
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) “received a tepid response from a Latino group” after “joking about the pronunciation of a Hispanic appointee’s last name,” the AP reports.
While listing his Hispanic appointees, McClatchy reports Perry “also noted that he named Jose Cuevas as chairman of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, an appointee whose name bears striking similarities to the popular tequila, Jose Cuervo.”
Said Perry: “That is the right job for that man.”
