Just because he introduces you to his colleagues, doesn’t mean he’ll vote for you.That’s what U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan found out on Thursday about Senator Scott Brown.Usually there wouldn’t have been great expectations for a Republican senator to vote for a Democratic president’s nominee, but in the case of Brown vs. Kagan the…[Read more]

The?political lines are drawn.The top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee wasted no time in?setting the battle plans for the?debate over the nomination?of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to become the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.After all is said and done,? she is expected to be confirmed to the highest court in…[Read more]

By Massimiliano Di Giorgio ROME (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mario Monti on Tuesday scotched Rome’s bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games, saying Italy’s difficult economic situation would prevent the government offering the necessary financial guarantees. „We arrived at the unanimous conclusion that in Italy’s current condition the government does…[Read more]

A furor over his refusal to release his tax records has focused renewed attention on Mitt Romney’s vast personal fortune,lacoste bulgaria, which puts him in the top tier of wealthy Americans.But?Romney would not be the richest president in U.S. history if he becomes the Republican presidential nominee and defeats President Barack Obama (net worth:…[Read more]

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What do you get a guy who’s leaving the White House to run for Mayor of Chicago?White House colleagues presented Rahm Emanuel with a dead Asian carp wrapped in Chicago newspapers at the morning meeting on his last day. It was a symbol of two of the many political battles fought by the man who became President Barack Obama’s chief of staff — he…[Read more]

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Dan Quayle played golf in Arizona. Al Gore taught journalism in New York. But Dick Cheney is breaking with the tradition that former vice presidents quietly leave Washington and the public eye when they exit the White House. Even Cheney’s ex-boss,ugg slovenija, George W. Bush, has refrained from criticizing the Obama administration, saying the new…[Read more]

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We know there’s no love-loss between Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. But what dropped into today’s e-mail inbox was particularly revealing about their pitched battle for their party’s nomination.?Obama’s Senate office released a statement Tuesday touting his co-sponsorship of a new bill to provide an extra $1…[Read more]

Major indexes dropped? to their lowest level since 2003 yesterday and?U.S. stock futures are pointing to another plunge today as investors worry about the fate of U.S. carmakers and the spectre of a prolonged economic downturn.????Just how bad is it??Well,roger vivier sale, here’s another?sign of the?impending apocalypse:?the Labor Department…[Read more]

SANDUSKY, Ohio – It got off to a bit of a rocky start, but Republican?presidential candidate John McCain finally campaigned with the latest star of the U.S. election –? Joe the Plumber — on Thursday.??? The Arizona senator has mentioned Joe Wurzelbacher regularly at rallies for the last two weeks since the Ohio man drilled Democratic presidential…[Read more]

聽We didn’t get the chance to compare the folksy style of Elizabeth Warren with the more cerebral style of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner when her appointment was confirmed by the president on the Rose Garden lawn today.Warren, a janitor鈥檚 daughter whose grandmother drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush, has been asked to set up a powerful new…[Read more]

Friends of Bill and Hillary Clinton who didn’t get invited to daughter Chelsea’s wedding now have something to take the sting off.President Barack Obama didn’t get invited either (and the mother of the bride is a member of his Cabinet).Barbara Walters asked him bluntly on ABC’s “The View” whether he was invited to the wedding of the year.“I was…[Read more]

It almost sounded as if U.S. lawmakers felt jilted by Washington’s long-time NATO ally Turkey.“How do we get Turkey back?” demanded Representative Gary Ackerman at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing exploring “Turkey’s New Foreign Policy Direction.”“Why is Turkish public opinion … perhaps one of the most anti-American of any of the…[Read more]

Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele is once again at odds with his party. This time it’s for calling for active opposition of the Obama agenda. What’s wrong with that, you ask. Well, he did it in a book. A book GOP leaders knew nothing?about until it hit the shelves.According to Amazon.com,?Steele’s book, “Right Now: A 12-Step Program for…[Read more]

You’ve got to give the Hillary Clinton campaign a point for creativity.????The New York senator’s campaign put on her Web site a quirky video explaining how the Iowa presidential nominating caucus works (see our more mundane explainer here).?The video’s theme is how participating in the caucus is easy while in comparison exercising is hard,roger…[Read more]

President Barack Obama’s decision to abandon a big, fixed-installation missile defense shield in Eastern Europe is drawing some angry reaction abroad.Conservatives in Poland,Louis vuitton bags, where the Bush administration planned to base interceptor rockets,mulberry sale, and the Czech Republic, where a radar installation was planned, accused…[Read more]