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Giannoulias to Get Fundraising Boost From Obama in Fight for Obama's Senate Seat
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyPresident Obama makes his first political visit to Illinois for the 2010 cycle on Aug. 5, when he'll headline fundraisers in Chicago to benefit Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias, running for Obama's old seat, and the Democratic National Committee. Giannoulias sorely needs the help. The Illinois state treasurer raised only about $900,000 in the quarter ending June 30, while GOP rival Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) hauled in $2.3 million. Giannoulias has about $1 million on hand compared to $3.9 million for Kirk. The Giannoulias camp struggled with donors during the first half of the ...
Commencement Speakers 2010: Barack Obama, Glenn Beck Hit Campuses
By Aaron Steiner - Politics DailyCommencement season is arriving, and that means all the top schools are engaging in bouts of competitive name dropping. Commencement speakers tend to be a highly anticipated announcement among the nation's top schools, seeing who can secure the big brand names like "Clinton" or "Immelt." Speaker selection can often cause a bit of student unrest (see: Syracuse protests over this year's selection, JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon), and, at times, nationwide controversy (see: protests at Notre Dame over President Barack Obama's speech last year). More and more, commencement addresses ...
Obama Aide: No New Drilling Until Oil Rig Blast Explained
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyWith reports that floating oil from a huge spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reached Louisiana shores, a top aide to President Obama said Friday no "additional drilling" for offshore oil will be approved until investigators determine what caused the recent explosion on a deep water rig. In late March, Obama lifted a decades-old moratorium on oil drilling off the mid- and south-Atlantic coasts, areas in the Gulf not currently leased, and in waters off Alaska. But no new leases have been granted as yet, and White House adviser David Axelrod said "none will until we find out what has happened ...
Democrats Still Short of Votes But Predict Health Bill Will Pass
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAfter months of deadlines that have come and gone, White House officials and congressional leaders expressed confidence Sunday that they will get the votes they need this week to pass a comprehensive health care reform bill, but they conceded that they are not there yet. At the same time, Republicans renewed charges that President Obama and Democratic leaders were "arrogant" and "tone deaf" in trying to push through legislation the country doesn't want, and warned that passage of the reform package would not only wreak havoc on the health care system but would be a disaster at the polls for ...
The Washington Pressure Cooker: If You Can't Take It, It's Time to Go
By Peter Wehner - Politics DailyA Sunday New York Times profile on David Axelrod, perhaps President Obama's closest aide, contains this paragraph: In an interview in his office, Mr. Axelrod was often defiant, saying he did not give a "flying" expletive "about what the peanut gallery thinks" and did not live for the approval of "the political community." He denounced the "rampant lack of responsibility" of people in Washington who refuse to solve problems, and cited the difficulty of trying to communicate through what he calls "the dirty filter" of a city suffused with the "every day is an Election Day sort of mentality." ...
Whos' the Leading Man? It Ain't Rahm or Ax.
By David Corn - Politics DailyDid you know that mega-film director James Cameron has infiltrated the White House? Yes, he lent Rahm Emanuel one of the "link" machines from "Avatar" that allows the White House chief of staff to "drive" another being -- and that being happens to be President Obama. OK, not quite. But for some that has seemed to be the driving Washington narrative: the all-powerful White House chief of staff hijacking the presidency of the progressive-minded Obama. It's a popular explanation among liberals for their disappointment with Obama -- and for the president's failure to enact sweeping change ...
Obama Re-Election Effort Already Taking Shape
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIt is never too early. Quietly, separated from the public business, President Obama's political aides are gathering information and lining up team players for his probable re-election bid in 2012, which likely will again be run out of Chicago, Politico reports. The closed-door planning focuses first on the midterm elections this year, with talk of a presidential campaign sandwiched into the private conversations. Politico's Mike Allen says that White House senior adviser David Axelrod may leave his West Wing office to rejoin his family in Chicago and resume his role as the campaign guru, ...
David Axelrod Fires Back at Karl Rove on Deficits
By David Sessions - Politics DailyIn an op-ed in Friday's Washington Post, Obama senior adviser David Axelrod slammed Karl Rove for a brief Post item last Sunday in which Rove said the Obama administration will "run up more debt by October than Bush did in eight years." Responding to the back-handed "advice" Rove was giving Democrats for the 2010 election, Axelrod wrote that "given the shape in which the last administration left this country, I'm not sure I would solicit [Rove's] advice." ...
Colin Powell Portrait Unveiled to Tears and Cheers
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyGen. Colin Powell returned to the State Department Monday for an emotional unveiling of his official Secretary of State portrait. Powell and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presided over the unveiling of the portrait, which will hang with those of the other former secretaries of State in the secretary's suite of offices. When Powell was introduced to speak in the Ben Franklin room on the top floor at the department, the crowd cheered and applauded loudly. Powell was surrounded his immediate family -- wife Alma Powell, daughter Linda Powell, son Michael Powell, daughter-in-law ...
Scozzafava Endorses Democrat Owens Over Conservative Hoffman
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRepublican State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava threw her support to Democrat Bill Owens a day after dropping out of the race to fill former GOP Rep. John McHugh's upstate New York House seat. ...
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