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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Sen. John McCain was once a "maverick" on climate change, so much so that he convinced one of his closest friends in the Senate, Lindsey Graham, to champion the issue. Now, as Graham and another McCain pal -- Joe Lieberman -- draft a climate bill that they hope will attract broader Republican support, McCain has taken up the GOP's talking points and slammed their efforts. "Their start has been horrendous," McCain said on Thursday. "Obviously, they're going nowhere." McCain called the climate bill that passed the House in January a "monstrosity," and is echoing his fellow Republicans in calling ...
With yesterday's surprise announcement that Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter would switch to the Democratic Party, it has generally been assumed he would automatically face former conservative Congressman Pat Toomey in the General Election. This may -- or may not -- be the case.Despite the Pennsylvania Democratic Machine's efforts to "clear the field," Rep. Joe Sestak is still considering whether or not to stay in the race -- and he has publicly noted that Specter's decision was based on expediency. It is interesting that the same folks (like Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell) who were behind ...
The nation's media is buzzing over remarks made by Republican Senator Lindsay Graham in which John McCain's right hand man signaled that nationalizing the nation's banks was an option that Congress should consider. Watch:Who else is advocating what appears, at first glance, to be this most antithetical to Republican principles idea of bank nationalization? The man who predicted our financial catastrophe in the first place, Nouriel Roublni. Writing in Forbes, he surveys our options, including what little we know of the Treasury's bank rescue, and concludes that our best bet is all out ...
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