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'Feelings Thermometer': Michelle Obama Ranks 'Warmest' With Voters, Pelosi 'Coldest'
By not in system - AOL NewsEveryone is used to the familiar "horse race" poll that tells us who is out front when it comes to a campaign, but Quinnipiac University has a different measure for some of today's leading political personalities: namely, who ranks the "warmest" and "coldest" on a "feelings thermometer"? ...
Deficit to Hit $1.5 Trillion in 2011, Congressional Budget Office Warns
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe morning after President Obama warned that a "legacy of deficit spending" threatened to bury the nation in debt, a nonpartisan Capitol Hill office brought the reality home: the budget gap this year is headed toward a record $1.5 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office said a slow-recovering economy and the extension last month of income tax cuts into the new year could raise the difference between spending and receipts to 9.8 percent of the Gross Domestic Product, a common measure of the economy. That compares to a $1.3 trillion deficit last year and $1.4 trillion in red ink in ...
Giuliani Mulling Another White House Bid; Mike Huckabee Biding His Time
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyFormer New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who stumbled early in the Republican presidential campaign two years ago, says he's leaving the door open to trying again in 2012. Meanwhile, another 2008 GOP candidate, Mike Huckabee, says he's not in any rush to decide on a national race. Giuliani told CNBC's Kudlow Report he would "take a look at 2012" to determine whether he can play a useful role and has any realistic shot at getting the nomination. "Those are things that I'll have to evaluate as the year goes along," he said in an interview for the Friday night program. Asked by host Larry ...
McCain Calls Obama a 'Patriot,' Rejects Critics Who Say He's 'Unworthy' to Lead
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySen. John McCain lost a bitter campaign against Barack Obama in 2008 and has been at loggerheads with him for much of Obama's first two years in office. But the Arizona Republican this weekend called Obama a "patriot" intent on using his presidency to "advance our country's cause" and rejected accusations -- many coming from members of his own party and the tea party movement -- "that his policies and beliefs make him unworthy to lead America." McCain made his comments in an article he wrote for The Washington Post opinion page, posted on Saturday, in which he praised Obama for giving a ...
Darrell Issa, House Oversight Chief, Could Do Well by Doing Good
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyRep. Darrell Issa, the incoming leader of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has generated much attention and speculation lately about his effort to hunt down "job killing" federal regulations. While Democrats are hoping to cast the California Republican as a hyperpartisan committee chairman set on politically motivated "witch hunts," Issa could surprise them. He is well positioned to do more than generate publicity; he could reveal real examples of waste and malfeasance. Based on Issa's comments last October -- when he said President Obama "has been one of the most ...
Woodstock for Conservatives: Dick Cheney Is Back
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyI was in the audience at Dick Cheney's coming-out party at the Bakersfield Business Conference in California this weekend, his first big public appearance since undergoing major heart surgery in July. The former vice president has lost a great deal of weight, maybe 30 pounds, looks gaunt and walks with a cane. After he and his wife, Lynne, settled into armchairs on the stage, he told the crowd that he couldn't have made it without her, largely because she served as his nurse and negotiator with the medical community. "I know how to ask the hard questions," she said, as she proceeded to ...
Remembering 9/11 and the Night at Shea Stadium That Brought Everyone Together
By Steve Phillips - AOL NewsThe morning of September 11, 2001 started a bit overcast. I left home at my normal time but anticipated a very busy day at work because I had organizational telemeetings scheduled for the entire day. Every Mets minor league club had its own time window in which we were going to discuss each player in the organization and their progress over the minor league season. The big league club was on the road in Pittsburgh. Normally I would listen to any number of radio stations on my drive into work. As I was approaching the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, which links the Bronx with Queens, I heard on a ...
Giuliani's Daughter Gets 1 Day of Community Service
By John O. Membrino - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- The daughter of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani agreed in court today to one day of community service in return for having her shoplifting charges dismissed. Louis Lanzano, AP Caroline Giuliani, 20, arrives at Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday. Judge Jennifer Schecter told 20-year-old Caroline Giuliani to "stay out of trouble and avoid re-arrest," noting that the charges will be dismissed if she doesn't run afoul of the law again over the next six months, ABC News reported. Giuliani was arrested Aug. 4 after a security camera at a Sephora cosmetics store in ...
Giuliani: Mosque by Ground Zero Would Stir Hatred
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(Aug. 19) -- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, using the words "hatred," "anger" and "pain," turned up his rhetoric today against plans for building an Islamic center two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks. Although he acknowledged the legal and constitutional rights of Muslims to build the mosque near ground zero, he said in an NBC "Today" show interview that the question was not whether the development should go ahead but rather one of "sensitivity and people's feelings." Giuliani also had strong words for the imam who would lead the mosque, Feisal Abdul Rauf, saying that if ...
Rudy Giuliani's Daughter Charged With Shoplifting
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- Rudy Giuliani's daughter, a 20-year-old Harvard student, was arrested on a shoplifting charge after a security camera saw her pocketing items at a cosmetics store, police said. The items Caroline Giuliani is accused of taking from a Sephora store in Manhattan on Wednesday had a value of more than $100 and included Aqua Cream and Dior Skinflash Primer, ABC News reported. Store managers called police and then said they didn't want to press charges, The Associated Press reported. But she was arrested on a petty larceny charge and led away in handcuffs, ABC said. She is due in court ...
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