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Opinion: Reid, Rage and Race
By Michael Arceneaux - AOL News(Jan. 12) -- Conventional wisdom says I should be boiling over in sheer rage. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had the audacity to say during the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama was a light-skinned African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." To quote the great Snagglepuss, "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" Sen. Reid has been outed for echoing a familiar sentiment expressed throughout the last election. But how dare he express it in a way that sounds so ... quaint? I mean, that sort of political incorrectness just isn't something to be expected from ...
Hillary's Presidential Campaign No Longer Broke
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyOnly a year ago, the unsuccessful and prohibitively expensive Clinton presidential campaign was in debt for roughly $25 million to vendors, employees, and for personal loans the candidate had made to the campaign. ...
WH, Democrats Prep for War Funding Debate
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Bush Administration has requested $108 billion in supplemental funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the remainder of this fiscal year. Democratic leaders in Congress are trying to decide how to proceed on the measure. President Bush has threatened to veto any war spending measure that exceeds his funding request or that contains added provisions. Democrats are considering both strategies to make the funding request more palatable to some in their caucus. It's a reprise of a battle fought between the Administration and Congress last year, one the Democrats eventually lost, and ...
McCain Ad Controversy?
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySen. John McCain is set to release his the first television ad of the general election campaign on Monday. The ad, titled "624787," will air statewide in New Mexico, neighbor to McCain's home state of Arizona and which President Bush carried by a small margin in 2004.Now the Washington Post reports that the ad's last line is causing an online controversy. Some commentators find it to be an indirect shot at Sen. Barack Obama.The script of the ad follows. ...
Bush Considering Economic Stimulus Package
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyDespite his stated belief that the nation's economic underpinnings are sound, President Bush said in an interview with Reuters yesterday that he was considering an economic stimulus package proposal later this month after Congress returns to Washington. Such a package would likely consist of new tax cuts and a push to make the Bush tax cuts of 2003 permanent. Those tax cuts as currently constituted are set to expire in 2011.Although Democrats will almost certainly oppose any proposal for tax cuts, believing as they do that the 2003 tax cuts are already unaffordable in a time or war, the debate ...
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