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Blog Entries for Sunday, April 26
More Than 100 Days
This week will be dominated by talk of what President Obama has done in his first 100 days. But let's face facts. All Presidents must deal with much more than that. As for the 100 day story line, I've never been one that thinks much of it, feeling it's a ...
Blog Entries for Friday, April 24
Credit Card Changes
Last week, we talked a lot about the heat put on the credit card industry by the White House. Most people probably don't realize that change is already coming in how those companies deal with cardholders. Late last year, the Federal Reserve unveiled new rules that would limit sudden interest ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, April 23
My Daughter's Work Day
That little red headed girl with the "Press" badge and the reporter's notebook who was zipping around the hallways of the Capitol on Thursday was my daughter. She had a blast, or at least that's what she told me. "Hi Henry. Hi Ted," she said to her brothers that evening. "I'm home from ...
Obama Torture Stumble
For all of the discipline this White House has shown on some major issues, there is a lot of head shaking going on in DC right now over how the President handled the terror memos issue this week. Last week, everything seemed to be buttoned down. The memos were released, ...
More Obama Prime Time
As I was rumbling around Capitol Hill yesterday, my blackberry chirped with the receipt of yet another message from the White House, another email that demonstrated how this White House is staying on offense. "Primetime Presidential News Conference Scheduled for Wednesday, April 29," said the email. I'll give the Obama ...
The Bully Pulpit
During my years covering politics in Washington, I have seen too many people underestimate the power of the President of the United States. This past week was a prime example. Last week, the White House leaked the story of how a group of credit card executives were being summoned to ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, April 22
Credit Card Jawboning
If you're one of the credit card executives going to the White House today, I guess you better be ready for a little smack from the President of the United States. Some of the execs work for companies that have received Wall Street bailout money. And yet, some complain, those ...
Struggling For Traction
Republicans are trying their best to make themselves into the party that's paying the most attention to troubles with money from the Wall Street bailout. Whether they'll succeed is another question. Right now, not much is sticking to President Obama. Republicans are trying hard, but the polls continue to indicate ...
CIA Terror Memos
There wasn't as much outrage in the Congress the day after President Obama opened the door to a probe of Bush Administration lawyers who wrote memos approving the CIA use of controversial interrogation techniques. There were Democrats speaking out and Republicans, too. But it just didn't seem - at least ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, April 21
The Evidence Is Mixed
Treasury Secertary Timothy Geithner did his level best on Tuesday to put a good light on efforts by the Obama Administration to deal with financial troubles on Wall Street. In testimony before a special Congressional oversight panel, Geithner parried the bipartisan concerns of panel members, who clearly seemed ready to ...
Health Care Reform
The first day of sweeping health care reform hearings in the Senate was interesting, even if it put me and most of my colleagues to sleep. The Senate Finance Committee assembled an oversized panel to debate what kind of reforms should be considered in what's sure to be a titanic ...
The Blood Starts Boiling
Democrats had done a pretty good job so far this year in holding back calls for retribution against the Bush Administration on a host of fronts. That is now melting away in the Congress. The release last week of the "terror memos" which authorized a variety of controversial CIA interrogation ...
Vice President Cheney
I've been watching with interest the various comments of former Vice President Dick Cheney of late. And I'm not quite sure what it means. Cheney's latest foray into the press has come in recent days as he's weighed in several times on the release of memos that authorized certain CIA ...
Judicial Nominations
Earlier this week we told you of how one Republican Senator is already threatening to filibuster the first judicial nominee of the Obama Administration. That drew some email flak. Specifically, some raised the claim that Republicans shouldn't worry about blocking Democratic nominees, because so many of President Bush's nominations had been unfairly ...
Blog Entries for Monday, April 20
$100 Million White House Briefing
I know a lot of my listeners and readers are fully convinced that the news media is completely in the bag for President Obama. But it doesn't seem that way in the White House Briefing Room. Not long after President Obama announced that he had his Cabinet find $100 million ...
More Judicial Filibusters?
It wasn't but a few years ago that Republicans were threatening to do away with the right of Senators to filibuster judicial nominees, as Democrats held up nominations made by then President Bush. I figured it wouldn't take long for the GOP to switch sides on that argument now that they don't ...
A Start Or A Drop In The Bucket
There's two ways to look at the White House move on Monday to cut $100 million from federal government budgets: "It's a start," or "You've got to be kidding me." For those who vented their frustration last week in various Tea Party related events, they will take the latter description, ...
Global Warming
A U.S. House Committee kicks off a four day series of hearings today on global warming legislation, an issue that's sure to kick up some partisan dust in coming months. What supporters want is the Congress to legislate new controls on climate change/greenhouse gases/global warming pollutants, mainly by placing new ...
Health Care Reform
The Senate Finance Committee begins hearings today on health care reform, an issue that's certain to dominate the Congressional agenda in the months ahead. Right now there is a lot of bipartisan talk about health care reform, but let's face it - there really isn't that much common ground politically ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, April 19
10 Years Since Columbine
Earlier this month I was talking about the shootings at Columbine on the radio and overestimated how long ago that took place - it's 10 years ago today. I guess the events of Nine Eleven and the fact that gun control hasn't been at the top of the American political ...
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