AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
TomDaschle
The Next White House Chief of Staff: Tom Donilon, Peter Rouse on Short List
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyAmid the reports that Rahm Emanuel will likely step down as White House chief of staff -- possibly as early as Friday -- to run for Chicago mayor, the question all of Washington is waiting to have answered is: Who would get his job? Senior adviser Pete Rouse is expected to step in on an interim basis, and in so doing could increase his chances to become the permanent chief of staff. But other names have popped up, including Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon and Ron Klain, Vice President Joe Biden's chief of staff. Rouse, a longtime aide to former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle ...
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 ...
'Real Housewives of D.C.' on Bravo; Casting Buzz Inside Washington
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyBravo announced Tuesday that the cable channel added the TV reality show, "Real Housewives of D.C.," to its program offerings for next year. The franchise is currently being filmed here in the Capitol. Washington has been abuzz since May about which D.C. women would be cast on the show. Although several candidates have been seen with film crews around the city in recent weeks, Bravo has not yet announced the final cast for our group of "housewives." ...
Major Health Players Predict Reform Will Pass This Year
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyA quartet of bipartisan heavyweights from outside Congress is feeling pretty good about the prospects for health reform. The climate is different from 1994, they said Wednesday, because they trust each other, they agree on more than they expected, and everybody stands to benefit through better insurance or more business.The panelists -- former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, former Republican Rep. Billy Tauzin (now president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America), AARP executive vice president John Rother and Ron Pollack, executive director of the consumer group ...
Obama Wants to Simplify IRS, Possibly Because His Own Tax Return is 67 Pages Long
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyPresident Obama spent yesterday, Tax Day, railing against our current system of revenue collection, declaring that filing a tax return is too confusing and expensive for working American families.Later in the day, the President released his own tax return, which shed a little light on what motivated his morning speech. The damn thing is 67 pages long!But thanks to the twin miracles of technology and public disclosure, Obama's entire return is up on the internet. So if you've always wanted to see what a presidential 2210 form looks like, well now you can.Of course Obama probably wasn't thinking ...
Axelrod: Cabinet Not Like American Idol. Me: It Kinda Is
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyWhite House Senior Adviser David Axelrod says that picking a cabinet isn't like American Idol:Like the headline says, though, it kinda is. Maybe Axelrod has never watched American Idol. There's a list as long as Tim Geithner's tax itemizations of American Idol contestants who have been forced to withdraw for one reason or another. As a result, Idol's producers have been criticized for their poor vetting skills.There was Frenchie Davis, who was forced to withdraw when it was discovered that she had posed topless for some website. We should thank our lucky stars that Bill Richardson only had a ...
Tim Geithner Was Worse Than Daschle, But Also Better
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Daily Beast has a breakdown of all of the reasons why, even though the amount of unpaid tax was less than Daschle's, Tim Geithner's (pictured here being "too sexy for these taxes") offense was much worse. Our own Mark Impomeni also points out that Barack Obama's self-admitted mistake in nominating Daschle should also extend to Geithner's appointment.In a rare instance of bipartisanship, I'm going to mostly agree with Mark here, and with the Beast. I've said, from the outset, that Geithner was getting too easy a ride from the President and the press. As Daily Beast points out, Geithner not ...
Obama Apology Rings Hollow with Geithner Still at Treasury
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama is receiving praise from his supporters and the mainstream press for the apology tour he conducted last night in various television interviews. Obama was apologizing for the selection of former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. Daschle withdrew his name from consideration yesterday amidst a scandal involving non-payment of his personal income taxes. Obama acknowledged that it was a mistake to nominate Daschle, but stopped short of mentioning another prominent member of his Administration with potentially more serious ...
For Possibly the First Time Ever, Someone Listens to Jim DeMint
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyFormer Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle withdrew his candidacy for HHS Secretary yesterday, and the loser was the American public. Car & driver taxes or not, Daschle's combined knowledge of a) our nation's health care system and b) Washington is unparalleled.But there's a silver lining for everyone who isn't reading this from the emergency room (the poor man's doctor's office, according to George W. Bush)... It appears that for once, someone actually listened to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC)!DeMint had spent yesterday morning clamoring for Daschle's withdrawal, stating:"It's very unfortunate with ...
President Obama Says 'I Screwed Up!'
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe folks over at Hot Air, of course, find fault with this, but they're used to a President with the introspective ability of "The Fonz." The rest of us, however, like it when a guy can admit his mistakes. Here's the President talking about former future HHS Secretary Tom Daschle: Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a>It will be interesting to see if this display leads to a call to rethink Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's appointment. Given the importance of Geithner's post, I doubt it. ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- Rudy Giuliani: Mitt's Great. I'm Just Better
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics