May 312012
For a moment, anyway, politics stopped at the water’s edge, as President Obama honored his predecessor. Ex-Bush aide Mark McKinnon live at the scene of the Bush portrait hanging.
May 312012
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Johnny Reid Edwards, a honey-voiced North Carolina lawyer who parlayed his boyish good looks and inspiring personal history as the son of a mill-worker into a meteoric political rise, was acquitted of one count Thursday in a corruption case, as the judge declared a mistrial on five other charges on which the jury was deadlocked.
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Top congressional Republicans are making a new offer to President Barack Obama in the fight over interest rates for 7.4 million students with federal college loans.
Former President Bill Clinton is coming to Wisconsin to campaign for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett ahead of next week's gubernatorial recall election.
For a president whose reelection slogan is “Forward,” President Obama has spent a lot of time looking backward on the campaign trail lately, invoking the ghosts of his predecessor, George W. Bush, at nearly every turn to remind voters what a mess he inherited in 2009.
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One image from today’s unveiling of the official portrait of former President George W. Bush at the White House really caught our eye. It was of Vice President Joe Biden leaning back in his seat to say something to Republican political svengali Karl Rove.
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House Republicans are releasing emails and documents that shed light on dealings between the White House and the drug industry as President Barack Obama maneuvered to move his health care overhaul through Congress.
May 312012
Former President Bill Clinton has decided to go to Wisconsin to campaign against Scott Walker in the final days of the battle over whether to recall the Wisconsin Governor, a move that could give a boost to the anti-Walker forces in a campaign that will depend heavily on who turns out to vote, a source familiar with Clinton’s plans confirms to me.
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In his latest attack upon the Jewish people, Barack Obama this week told Conservative rabbis that he “probably knows more about Judaism than any other president.”
President Obama and his team have adopted a tough-talking approach for the general election. So far, it’s backfiring.