WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is questioning whether the conservative “tea party” coalition truly represents a grass-roots movement.
In a broadcast interview, Pelosi calls tea party voters the “astroturf” movement. She says many of those voters have good intentions but that the Republican Party has hijacked the movement for its gain.
The San Francisco Democrat says [...]
Desiree Rogers, the White House social secretary and a close friend of Michelle and Barack Obama, announced her resignation on Friday in the wake of the furore over the gate-crashing of a state dinner by three uninvited guests.
As the first high-profile casualty of Mr Obama’s tenure, her departure was a personal embarrassment for the president [...]
New York Gov. David A. Paterson, engulfed by an ethics scandal, bowed out of the 2010 governor’s race Friday, a decision that gave relief to Democrats fearful that the embattled leader threatened to cost the party a key governorship and harm other candidates across the U.S. coping with a re-energized Republican Party.
“It has become increasingly [...]
Looming over the southbound lanes of Interstate 35 in Wyoming, Minn., is a grinning portrait of former President George W. Bush, asking “Miss me yet?”
At a time when President Obama’s approval ratings are cratering, the billboard appeared mysteriously, with no one claiming credit for it.
But it has raged virally across the Internet, with a Google [...]
New York Gov. David Paterson is shooting down talk that his resignation is imminent, calling “outrageous rumors” about his alleged womanizing and drug use a “callous and sleazy” assault on his character.
The Democratic governor told The Associated Press that the political and media scrutiny he’s facing won’t stop him from seeking election in the [...]
Scott Lee CohenCHICAGO — Illinois Democrats still reeling from last year’s corruption scandal around former Gov. Rod Blagojevich pressured their new nominee for lieutenant governor on Friday to step aside as more embarrassing revelations about his past emerged.
Scott Lee Cohen, a pawnbroker and political neophyte who pumped $2 million into his campaign, has been responding [...]
NASHVILLE, TENN. – These are Sarah Palin’s people. Just ask them.
At the mere mention of her name, “tea party” activists light up and whip out “Saracudda” buttons — a play off her “Sara Barracuda” nickname from her high school basketball team in Alaska.
With a dash of familiarity, many say they didn’t vote for Sen. John [...]
Sen. Paul KirkWASHINGTON – Paul Kirk said a poignant goodbye yesterday to the Senate, invoking the memory of the man he briefly replaced, Edward M. Kennedy, as he implored his colleagues to adopt Kennedy’s bipartisan spirit and get to work on fixing the nation’s problems.
But the Senate Kirk holds dearly in his memories no longer [...]
NASHVILLE, TN – Fox News has learned Tea Party convention organizers plan a big news conference here Friday to propose the closest thing yet to a national organizing strategy for the upcoming 2010 midterm elections.
The first ever Tea Party Convention has attracted a sellout crowd of a thousand activists from as far away as Hawaii [...]
Washington (CNN) — The White House is considering moving the site of the September 11 attack trial from Manhattan if the Justice Department sees fit, senior administration officials said Friday.
“Conversations have occurred within the administration to discuss contingency options should the possibility of a trial in Lower Manhattan be foreclosed upon by Congress or locally,” [...]
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