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Denis McDonough, Obama's New Deputy National Security Adviser: 5 Key Facts
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 22) -- President Barack Obama announced today that he has appointed Denis McDonough as the next deputy national security adviser. McDonough will report to Tom Donilon, who takes over from outgoing the national security adviser, retired Gen. James Jones. Surge Desk has compiled the following facts about McDonough, whom Obama praised as possessing "an extraordinary work ethic." 1. He's a longtime Obama adviser Formerly a foreign policy adviser to Sen. Tom Daschle --as well as a legislative director for Sen. Ken Salazar -- McDonough first began working for Obama when the president was ...
Who Has What It Takes to Replace Rahm Emanuel?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Sept. 8) -- Let the guessing game begin. The news that Chicago "Mayor for Life" Richard Daley would not run for a seventh term was a shocker. Instant speculation that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, a former congressman from Chicago, may step down to run for the job was not. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs hinted that a mayoral run could be in Emanuel's future. "Something like that doesn't come around a lot," Gibbs told reporters, suggesting there could be turnover at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. after the midterm election. Pete Souza, The White House Chief of Staff Rahm ...
New Breed of GOP Groups Rises to Party's Challenges
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 7) -- Depending on whom you ask, the proliferation of new conservative groups here represents either a "shadow" Republican Party aimed at getting around the dysfunctional real thing or a political renaissance by a GOP that sees its best chance in years to regain power in the capital. A combination of factors -- from the gaffe-prone chairman of the Republican National Committee to the Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United case to the Democrats' continued unpopularity -- has spurred a new generation of right-leaning advocacy groups, think tanks and polling groups. Among the ...
Budget Expert: U.S. Fiscal Crisis 'Endangers our Prosperity and Freedom'
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics Daily"The federal government faces an unprecedented fiscal challenge that risks the future well-being of our children and grandchildren." That's the warning issued by Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the moderator of a conference of budget experts who gathered at Washington's Mayflower Hotel Tuesday to evaluate the nation's fiscal crisis. The panelists, who were participating as part of the Pew-Peterson Commission on Budget Reform, generally did not view President Obama's tax and spending proposals as credible and noted that the president does not ...
Top Clinton Aide John Podesta: Political Climate 'Sucks'
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFormer President Bill Clinton's onetime chief of staff says the current state of the American political system "sucks" and he blames both sides -- though more the Republican side -- for the stalemate in Washington. John Podesta, in an interview with the Financial Times, expressed frustration with the adamant Republican opposition to virtually all of President Obama's programs. "I think the president is trying to re-engage with Republicans, but quite frankly he is not dealing with the party of Lincoln," said Podesta, who headed Obama's transition team. "He is dealing with the party of Palin ...
Podesta: Democrats Will Pass Health Bill With or Without Lieberman
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyJohn Podesta, the former White House chief of staff who ran President Obama's transition and still advises the administration on health care and other issues, today expressed confidence that a health care bill will pass despite the news that Sen. Joe Lieberman will filibuster any legislation with a public health insurance option or a Medicare buy-in for 55 year-olds. ...
Schwarzenegger & Shriver's Daughter Leaves Dressing Room 'in Shambles'
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyShopping at Saks Fifth Avenue in Washington, D.C. recently, Maria Shriver and her daughter left all the clothes the daughter tried on -- but didn't purchase -- on the floor of the dressing room. The sales staff was shocked that Shriver allowed her daughter, whose father is California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, to leave her rejects in a pile during their visit in mid-October. "She left the dressing room in a shambles," according to a sales clerk. "Why doesn't Maria Shriver teach her daughter manners and respect for others?" It is unclear whether it was 19-year-old Katherine or 18-year-old ...
On Obama White House Visitor Log: Lobbyists, Movie Stars and Bailed Out CEOs
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe White House released a visitor's log late Friday that revealed many of DC's biggest Democratic lobbyists have made frequent visits, despite President Obama's stringent new lobbying rules. The record of visitors also looks like a red carpet list of celebrities and Hollywood movie stars. And CEOs of all those Wall Street banks the government bailed out earlier this year came calling frequently, too. Many of the Democratic lobbyists who frequented the White House this year are also among the highest earning lobbying firms in 2009, including power player Steve Elmendorf of Elmendorf Strategies ...
Has Obama Given Up on Global Warming Treaty?
By David Corn - Politics DailyHas President Obama decided that it won't be possible to craft a comprehensive treaty to reduce global warming emissions when the nations of the world gather in Copenhagen in December for what's been billed as a critical climate summit?After Obama took office, his administration indicated it wanted to lead the way to an international treaty that would bring about worldwide cuts in greenhouse gases and that could be signed at Copenhagen at the end of this year. But the road to Denmark has become full of bumps, potholes and, perhaps, dead ends. The basic dynamic is this: Emerging economic ...
Documents Show Barack Obama Misled on Blagojevich Contacts
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyJudicial Watch, the conservative open government advocacy group, says it has obtained documents through a Freedom of Information Act request from the office of disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) which show that there was some contact between President-elect Obama and Blagojevich in the days before the governor was arrested on charges of attempting to auction Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder. The documents, a December 3rd letter signed by Obama, and a letter from Obama transition team co-chairmen Valerie Jarrett and John Podesta, are in themselves not damning; but ...
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