Started 7 months, 2 weeks ago (2009-03-26 05:30:44)
by ReaderA
Link to 3/23:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/white-house-watch /2009/03/23/pf.html
Link to 3/24:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/white-house-watch /2009/03/24/pf.html
Obama Brings It Down a Notch
By
Dan Froomkin
12:21 PM ET, 03/25/2009
President Obama seized an hour of prime time last night to move beyond the overheated chatter
of the past week and return the...
Started 7 months, 1 week ago (2009-04-03 04:22:55)
by ReaderA
Meek petitions to qualify for Fla. Senate race
Posted 4/2/2009 1:30 PM ET
AP
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek will attempt to become the first
U.S. Senate candidate in Florida to qualify for the ballot by petition.
Meek said Thursday he will begin the petition drive in Orlando on Saturday. He will need about 112,000...
Started 7 months, 2 weeks ago (2009-03-28 03:27:30)
by FlCracker
Rep. Issa pushing to limit first lady's power to
'protect' her 'historic role.'
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and his conservative allies are pushing for legislation that would limit
the first lady's ability to do substantive
policy work . Issa had originally proposed the bill last year, in fear of Bill Clinton moving back in to the White House. But he insists the bill is only
about ...
Started 7 months, 2 weeks ago (2009-03-25 02:45:46)
by ReaderA
By JACKIE
CALMES
WASHINGTON - This time President Obama
directed some of the stagecraft. This time Treasury
Secretary
Timothy F.
Geithner fleshed out the substance of their long-anticipated program to remove banks' toxic assets and revive the financial system. And this
time the reaction was widely positive, giving the embattled Mr. Geithner a ...
Started 7 months, 2 weeks ago (2009-03-25 01:58:58)
by ReaderA
By Neil Irwin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 24, 2009; A11
President Obama named two top Treasury Department officials yesterday, moving to build out a team that has been hobbled by a shortage of senior
personnel.
Obama will nominate Neal S. Wolin, an insurance executive and former Treasury general counsel, as deputy
Treasury secretary, and Lael Brainard, a ...
Started 7 months, 2 weeks ago (2009-03-26 00:08:38)
by ReaderA
By DAVID ESPO and
ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON - In a springtime show of unity, congressional Democrats welcomed President Barack Obama to the
Capitol Wednesday and unveiled budget blueprints that embrace his key priorities and point the way for major legislation this year on health care, energy and
education.
Even so, both the House and Senate ...
Started 7 months ago (2009-04-12 03:11:26)
by ReaderA
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran now controls the entire cycle for producing nuclear fuel with the opening of a new facility to produce uranium fuel
pellets, the Iranian president said Saturday.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the speech two days after the inauguration of the facility which produces uranium oxide pellets for a planned
40-megawatt heavy-water nuclear reactor near the town of Arak, ...
Started 6 months, 2 weeks ago (2009-04-30 04:12:35)
by ReaderA
Editorial
The United States has changed a great deal since the
Voting Rights Act was first passed in 1965, but minorities still face significant obstacles in
registering to vote and casting ballots. It would be outrageous overreaching - the sort of thing Republicans deride as judicial activism - if the Supreme
Court takes away the power of Congress to protect minority voters ...
Started 7 months, 2 weeks ago (2009-03-26 03:39:09)
by ReaderA
By MATTHEW LEE
Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday pledged to stand "shoulder
to shoulder" with Mexico in its violent struggle against drug cartels, and admitted America's demand for illegal narcotics and arms markets was partly
to blame.
After allowing that an "insatiable" appetite for illicit drugs in the ...
Started 7 months, 2 weeks ago (2009-03-27 21:39:17)
by Ceice
Sure but let's not forget Russia
"As a candidate, Obama said the Afghan
war should have been the U.S. priority all along, and that the Bush administration wrongly diverted U.S. attention and resources to the war in
Iraq. As president, Obama has been under pressure to say how he plans to address the sharp increase in violence in Afghanistan while prodding
anti-terrorism
ally Pakistan...
