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Democrats Tap BP Lobbyist for Election Help
Tweet Share on Facebook June 23, 2010 Comment (1)A top BP lobbyist with strong ties to the Obama administration has been tapped by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to help embattled House Democrats in the fall elections, potentially giving the Democrats their own BP controversy. [See photos of the Gulf oil spill.]
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Kagan Calls Israeli Activist Judge 'My Hero'
Tweet Share on Facebook June 23, 2010 Comment (54)New video of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan praising an activist Israeli Supreme court judge as "my judicial hero" has Republican senators and conservative groups doubting administration claims that the former Clinton aide has an open mind and isn't interested in changing the Constitution. [Read 10 Things You Didn't Know about Kagan.]
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Some Worry McChrystal Gaffe Will End Embed Program
Tweet Share on Facebook June 23, 2010 Comment (3)Ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's locker room banter with a Rolling Stone reporter about the president and his national security staff could lead the military to end the successful program of embedding reporters with the troops.
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Voters Give Obama a Pass on Gulf Oil Spill
Tweet Share on Facebook June 23, 2010 Comment (4)By Alex Kingsbury, Washington Whispers
Despite the slow-motion environmental cataclysm unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico and the widely panned Oval Office address this week, President Obama's approval ratings haven't taken too much of a hit. Both before and after the spill, his numbers are relatively flat, says Andrew Kohut, the polling guru from the Pew Research Center. "The public understands the difficulties associated with this,and they think the fault lies with BP rather than the government."
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Senate Republicans to Back Nuclear Arms Treaty
Tweet Share on Facebook June 23, 2010 Comment (2)By Alex Kingsbury, Washington Whispers
The Nobel Prize committee may have been easily swayed by President Obama's quest for a world free of nuclear weapons, but getting the Senate to actually cut the U.S. nuclear arsenal looks to be a far tougher sell. Still, word on the Hill is that the New START treaty got a surprise boost last week. Sources say several Republicans on the Foreign Relations Committee are now considering backing ratification of the arms treaty that the White House negotiated with Moscow earlier this year.
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Brian Lamb: C-SPAN Now Reaches 100 Million Homes
Tweet Share on Facebook June 22, 2010 Comment (3)By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
C-SPAN, the little cable company that could when it started 31 years ago by airing boring House and Senate floor action, has become the influential public affairs channel that did.
Founder Brian Lamb, the soft spoken brains behind the idea funded by other cable companies, tells Whispers that his reach has now topped 100 million households, and doesn't even include the enormous presence it has on the Internet, especially with its new historical video library.
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Dick Armey: Rand Paul Made an 'Amateur Mistake'
Tweet Share on Facebook June 21, 2010 Comment (7)By Alex Kingsbury, Washington Whispers
Tea Party founding father Dick Armey says Sharron Angle, the Tea Party-backed candidate seeking to oust Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, made a gaffe when she twice warned of "Second Amendment remedies" to America's problems, if she didn't win the Nevada contest in November. Could such references to armed insurrection turn off moderate Republican voters? "It is always a problem," says Armey, who just penned a new book, Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto, due out in August.
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Zogby: Obama Has Not Shown Leadership on Oil Spill
Tweet Share on Facebook June 18, 2010 Comment (5)Pollster John Zogby updates our weekly Obama Report Card with a grade on the president’s performance. Zogby uses his polling, expert analysis and interaction with major players to come up with a grade and some comments that capture how he see’s the president’s week ending.
John Zogby on Week 74:
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White House Christmas Ornament Features Marine Band
Tweet Share on Facebook June 17, 2010 Comment (5)By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
Nineteenth-century Christmas music from the United States Marine Band gets top billing on this year's White House Historical Association Christmas ornament. Going on sale this month, the popular ornament features, on one side, an image of the band playing in the snow outside William McKinley's White House.
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Chuck Schumer's Fight Against Chinese Honey
Tweet Share on Facebook June 16, 2010 Comment (3)By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
As if the honey industry doesn't have enough problems with the mysterious disappearing bee syndrome, now it has to compete with cheaper Chinese imports. The prob: To avoid tariffs and anti-dumping laws, China mislabels honey as "sweetener" and sells through other countries like India, according to Democratic New York Sen. Charles Schumer. "We call it honey laundering," says Schumer.
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