Archive for December, 2008
Burris: “I Am the Junior Senator From Illinois”
The newest U.S. Senator - at least by appointment - continued his offensive against those trying to block his appointment to the president-elect’s vacant seat by the scandalized Blagojevich. Roland Burris gave yet another interview, this one to the Wall Street Journal, where he defended his legitimacy and forcefully proclaimed “I am the junior senator […]
Atheists Heading to Court Over Warren at Obama Inaugural
Perhaps proof that the controversy over President-elect Obama’s decision to have mega-pastor and purported gay-basher Rick Warren deliver the inaugural invocation is greater than first imagined, a collection of individual and organized atheists have sued Warren, among others, over his inclusion in the public inaugural festivities.
Celebrity atheist Michael Newdow is among the group who have […]
Fitzgerald Needs More Time for Blago Indictment
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Is this news a sign that case could be falling apart? Is Fitz not as infallible as we thought? Questions lead to more questions as the Blago case just gets weirder.
The U.S. attorney’s office today asked a federal judge for an extra three months to formally indict Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his former chief of […]
Burris Fights for Legitimacy as Race is Injected Into Blago Pick
As Illinois Gov. Blagojevich disappears back into the shadows following his bombshell Senate appointment yesterday, the recipient of that controversial appointment is fighting back, trying to stake a claim to his legitimacy outside of the Blago scandal and, along with African-American political allies, inserting the race card into messy discussion over whether or not he […]
Obama Statement on Blago Appointment
This statement from President-elect Obama on today’s developments concerning his old Senate seat and Gov. Blagojevich was released by the transition team.
“Democrats made it clear weeks ago that they cannot accept an appointment made by a governor who is accused of selling this very Senate seat. I agree with their decision, and it is extremely […]
Blagojevich Names Replacement for Obama Senate Seat
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich pulled off something of a stunner today as word came out that he would name an appointed replacement to President-elect Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat despite the crush of controversy surrounding him over criminal allegations that he tried to sell the very seat he will give to former Illinois Attorney General […]
Is Hillary Miffed?
Politico’s wonderful Ben Smith has something of an epilogue (maybe…) to a juicy little story that broke yesterday: Hillary Clinton returned $2,300 of what may be a total $4,600 contribution from - gasp! - Caroline Kennedy.
Page Six reported yesterday, and OpenSecrets confirms, that Hillary Clinton seems to have been irked enough by Caroline Kennedy’s support […]
GOP to Obama & Dems on Stimulus: Let the Battle Begin
The question has been floating around unanswered ever since Barack Obama won the presidency on November 4: How would the Republican Party on Capitol Hill interact with an increased Dem majority in Congress and a Democrat in the White House for the first time since January 2001? We just might have our answer…
With the joint […]
Obama Transition Team Misfires on Transparency
Chicago Sun-Times legend Lynn Sweet raps President-elect Obama and his transition team for failing to follow through on the promise to disclose all transition meetings with various outside groups on the much-ballyhooed web site Change.gov, the official site of the Obama transition.
The Obama team, pledging the ”most open and transparent transition in history,” gets an […]
The Obama Test?
It’s probably safe to assume that Joe Biden wasn’t thinking of Israel when he proclaimed on the presidential campaign trail something along the lines that there will be an “international test” for Obama soon after he takes office (and that was still an “if” in October…). Maybe Russia or Iran - certainly not Israeli, our […]
