New GOP Tactic: The Counter-Town Hall
Republican challengers across the country have found a new way of capitalizing on the roiling emotions surrounding congressional health care town hall meetings.
Experts See Double-Digit Dem Losses
After an August recess marked by raucous town halls, troubling polling data and widespread anecdotal evidence of a volatile electorate, the small universe of political analysts who closely follow House races is predicting moderate to heavy Democratic losses in 2010.
The Health Care Fight is Far from Over!
by Texas Eagle Forum
Over the past few weeks, you, along with thousands of your fellow American citizens, have done your civic duty and actively participated in and influenced the legislative process by attending the thousands of town hall meetings. Your patriotic opposition to the government-run health care proposal has successfully put the liberal majority and the Obama White House on the defensive, but they haven't retreated and surrendered yet!
White House Fears Liberal War Pressure
White House officials are increasingly worried liberal, anti-war Democrats will demand a premature end to the Afghanistan war before President Barack Obama can show signs of progress in the eight-year conflict, according to senior administration sources.
Climate Change Legislation Postponed
The once-delayed climate change legislation has been postponed again, spelling trouble for a top item on President Obama's legislative agenda.
Cheney: CIA Torture Probe 'Outrageous'
Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday called the Justice Department's decision to investigate whether CIA interrogators abused terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11 attacks "an outrageous political act" that "offends the hell out of me."
Enough Is Enough, Harry
by Sherman Frederick
This newspaper traces its roots to before Las Vegas was Las Vegas. We've seen cattle ranches give way to railroads. We chronicled the construction of Hoover Dam. We reported on the first day of legalized gambling. The first hospital. The first school. The first church. We survived the mob, Howard Hughes, the Great Depression, several recessions, two world wars, dozens of news competitors and any number of two-bit politicians who couldn't stand scrutiny, much less criticism.
Health-Care Anger Has Deeper Roots
Recent town-hall uproars weren't just about health care. They were also eruptions of concern that the government is taking on too much at once. That suggests trouble for the president and his party, and fears of losses in next year's midterm election are likely to shape the Democrats' fall agenda.
Obama's Lobbyist Curbs Are Political, Watchdog Told
A former Treasury official has told the watchdog for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout program that President Obama's promise to restrict lobbyist access to the bailout was made purely for political reasons.
CIA Interrogators Did Not Cross the Line
by Thomas Sowell
Britain's release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi-- the Libyan terrorist whose bomb blew up a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people-- is galling enough in itself. But it is even more profoundly troubling as a sign of a larger mood that has been growing in the Western democracies in our time.
Ex-Bush Whistleblower Pans Dems
Bunny Greenhouse, the Army contract director lionized by Democrats for exposing corruption during the George W. Bush administration, is now complaining that her efforts to win more protections for federal whistleblowers are being undermined by the Obama White House and Democrats in the Senate.
Town Halls Dissuade Some on Health Plan
Voters angry about Democrats' health care overhaul plans have managed to wrest commitments in August from a handful of lawmakers to oppose the reform bills and solidified the opposition of others -- raising new doubts about President Obama's hopes to pass a bill this year.
Un-American and Unlawful White House Projects
by Phyllis Sclaffly
The Obama administration brags that Cash for Clunkers was a success because it revived the suffering auto industry. But who really benefited from this $3 billion program?
Home-Schooler Ordered to Attend Public School
"What if this were Muslims who don't want their children exposed to infidel thoughts?" he asked. "Can a judge come into my home -- even if my wife and I agree to home-school our children -- and say it's to their best interest to put them in government schools?"
CIA Asks Justice to Probe Leaks of Secrets
Besieged by leaks of several closely held secrets, the CIA has asked the Justice Department to examine what it regards as the criminal disclosure of a secret program to kill foreign terrorist leaders abroad, The Washington Times has learned.
Gonzales Denies Supporting CIA Probe
Former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said Thursday that his previous assertion that it was "legitimate to question and examine" charges of CIA abuses of terrorism suspects did not mean he endorsed such an investigation.
Nancy Pelosi: No Public Option, No Bill
As the White House signals that it is willing to move forward on a health reform plan without a public option, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sent a strong message Thursday evening: not so fast.
School Speech Backlash Builds
School districts from Maryland to Texas are fielding angry complaints from parents opposed to President Barack Obama's back-to-school address Tuesday - forcing districts to find ways to shield students from the speech as conservative opposition to Obama spills into the nation's classrooms.
White House Tepid about Adviser Jones
The White House offered the most tepid of endorsements Friday of Van Jones, the administration's top adviser on green jobs, after conservative critics began circulating videos of him using expletives to describe Republicans and comparing former President George W. Bush's calls for oil exploration to "a crack head trying to lick the crack pipe for a fix."
