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Egypt Update: Obama Welcomes Army Promise of 'Democratic' Transition
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyPresident Obama welcomed Saturday the announcement by Egypt's military that it would oversee a peaceful transition to a democratic system as the country faced a new day and uncertain future in the wake of the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. In Cairo, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said it aspired "to guarantee the peaceful transfer of power within the framework of a free democratic system that allows an elected civilian power to rule the country, in order to build a free democratic state," the New York Times reported. The statement said Egypt would continue to abide by ...
Obama's Support Slips Among Democrats and Liberals After Tax Deal
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama has lost support among Democrats and liberals, resulting in this lowest job approval rating yet in polls conducted by the Marist Institute for McClatchy News. One consequence of the ratings drop: Republican Mitt Romney beats him in a hypothetical 2012 match-up. (Story; Poll data) Fifty percent disapprove of Obama's performance, in the poll conducted Dec. 2-8, while 42 percent approve, with 8 percent undecided. In November, 48 percent disapproved of Obama's performance while 45 percent approved. The poll was conducted during a week in which Obama announced a freeze on ...
Kendrick Meek Talked With Bill Clinton About Quitting Senate Race
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyRep. Kendrick Meek confirmed Friday that he and Bill Clinton discussed speculation that the Democrat might drop out of the three-way contest for Senate in Florida. But Meek denied reports from Politico and others that the former president pressured him to quit in order to help Republican-turned-independent Gov. Charlie Crist beat GOP nominee Marco Rubio. "We had a conversation in Orlando. The president and I talked about it," Meek said on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe" Friday. "I told him I'm not going to do it and that's just the bottom line." Crist revealed in televised interviews that he was aware ...
Liberal Groups to Answer Glenn Beck Rally With Mall Gathering Saturday
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyHold on, Glenn Beck. Not so fast, Jon Stewart. A coalition of liberal groups plans to gather in Washington on Saturday in answer to Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally last month that drew a huge crowd of Tea Partiers to the National Mall. Predicting a crowd of more than 100,000, some 300 liberal groups -- including the NAACP, the AFL-CIO and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force -- are sponsoring the event, the New York Times reports. Organizers, who have dubbed the gathering "One Nation Working Together," hope to counter what they call the Tea Party's divisiveness with a message promoting ...
Karl Rove Says Christine O'Donnell Needs to Explain Witchcraft 'Dabbling' to Voters
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyKarl Rove, political mastermind for former President George W. Bush, said Sunday that Christine O'Donnell, the Tea Party insurgent who won an upset victory in Delaware for the GOP Senate nomination, "can't simply ignore" the controversy stirred over the disclosure that she "dabbled in witchcraft" and has to find a way to "explain it and put it in its most sympathetic light and move on." "In southern Delaware, where there are a lot of church-going people, they're probably going to want to know what was that all about," Rove said on "Fox News Sunday." "And again, she said it on television when ...
Newt Gingrich: Obama's 'Kenyan, Anti-Colonial' Worldview Rules America
By David Gibson - Politics DailyNewt Gingrich has unleashed some of his most explosive language yet against Barack Obama, telling National Review Online that a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" mindset governs the president's actions, which he blasted as "authentically dishonest" and "factually insane." Gingrich's comments on the website of the conservative periodical were inspired, he said by a sharp-edged analysis of Obama by the conservative pundit, Dinesh D'Souza, in the latest edition of Forbes. In that article, D'Souza says that in his policies Obama is essentially channeling the soul of his late Kenyan-born father, an African ...
Opponents and Supporters of Mosque Raise Voices in Lower Manhattan
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyOn a rainy day in New York City, Lower Manhattan was awash in demonstrators voicing their opposition or their support for a proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque about 2½ blocks from the site of the former World Trade Center. The New York Police Department closed the block of Park Place where the 13-story building would be located and endeavored to keep the demonstrators in two separate areas, depending on whether they supported or opposed the project. Those efforts were not always successful. The New York Times reported that a medical student from Brooklyn, Michael Rose, approached ...
Obama's Remarks on Mosque Plan Draw Quick Responses
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama's remarks Friday evening supporting the building of a mosque in Lower Manhattan several blocks from the World Trade Center site that was attacked on 9/11 drew immediate responses from both supporters of the plan and opponents. Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York, who has spoken in favor of the mosque, issued a statement on his website Friday night saying: "Two hundred and 20 years ago this week, the Father of Our Country penned his famous letter to the Jewish Community of Newport Rhode Island or, as he called them, 'the Children of the Stock of Abraham.' President ...
Colorado Governor: Tea Party Fave Dan Maes Edges Scott McInnis in GOP Primary
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyDan Maes, a little-known conservative voice who never held public office but attracted Tea Party movement support, was chosen by Colorado Republicans as their choice for governor over former Congressman Scott McInnis. Maes won by just over 1 percent of the vote, leaving the possibility of a recount, the Denver Post reported. But Maes told supporters, "I am confident I am our Republican candidate for governor." It sets up a three-way contest in November, with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and third party hopeful Tom Tancredo, a former Republican congressman whose cause is fierce opposition ...
BP Quietly Prepared for Legal Fight in First Days of Gulf Oil Spill
By David Sessions - Politics DailyWhile it publicly touted its expert cleanup response in the first days of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP quietly prepared for the legal battles it would likely face, McClatchy reports. The oil giant hired experts expected to work for potential plaintiffs, assembled top-notch legal teams, and presented volunteers, fishermen and other workers with waivers, hoping they would sign away some of their rights to sue. In Florida, BP hired Akerman Senterfitt, the state's largest law firm and a major player in the state capital. When President Obama met with the company's executives last month, BP ...
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