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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack find themselves besieged today with demands from a vast array of liberal voices -- and some prominent conservatives -- to reinstate hastily fired USDA regional official Shirley Sherrod. As new facts have emerged -- all of them pointing to the capricious nature of Sherrod's sacking -- the White House has found itself the target of stinging criticism from voices that are usually raised in defense of Democrats. Vilsack and Obama are being vilified not just for the pell-mell nature of Sherrod's firing, but for cravenness and cowardice as ...
(Jan. 27) -- News of James O'Keefe's arrest has stunned right-wing bloggers who cheered him just a few months ago for embarrassing ACORN by masquerading as a pimp in a series of hidden-camera videos. O'Keefe and three other men are accused of tampering with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office. The four are charged with entering federal property under false pretenses for the purpose of committing a felony, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Authorities say O'Keefe took cell phone camera video of two accomplices who posed as telephone ...
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