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By David Knowles - Politics Daily(July 20)--The "ayes" have it. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee surprised no one and voted to advance Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court to a full vote on the Senate floor. Thirteen Senators voted in favor of Kagan, and six against. Only Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) crossed party lines, giving Kagan his approval. "No one spent more time trying to beat President Obama than I did except maybe Senator McCain," Graham said in explaining his vote. "But I understood -- we lost, President Obama won. The Constitution in my view puts an requirement on me not to replace my judgment ...
Elena Kagan Memos from Paula Jones Suit Withheld by Clinton Library
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWhat a tangled legal web she may have weaved. Elena Kagan, President Obama's latest pick for the Supreme Court, once advised Bill Clinton in the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Jones that played a prominent role in Clinton's eventual impeachment. In addition, Kagan also advised the former president in the Whitewater investigation. But the Clinton Presidential Library says that it will not publicly release memos that Kagan wrote to Clinton aides in those two matters because doing so would expose confidential information, the Associated Press reported. Instead, the library will only ...
Want to Know How Health Care Will Play in November? Wait Until October
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIt should be enshrined as the Obama Uncertainty Principle. Making his do-the-right-thing argument last week to wavering Democrats, the president repeatedly stressed the cloudy, crystal ball limitations of self-interested political prophecy. As he put it last Friday at a health care pep rally at George Mason University, "I don't know what's going to happen with the politics on this thing. I don't know whether my poll numbers go down [or] they go up. I don't know what happens in terms of Democrats versus Republicans." Presidents rarely give such public voice to humility, even if the conceit ...
Starr vs. Clinton Revisited: Ruined Lives and Wasted Times
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyThe 1994 scene from Bill Clinton's first trip to Russia is etched in my memory. As the bedraggled White House press corps staggered into Moscow's Metropol Hotel shortly before dawn after a midnight stopover in Kiev, Clinton press aides greeted reporters with these cheery instructions: "Check-in to the left, Whitewater statements to the right." It seemed bizarre at the time that a domestic political scandal like Whitewater -- a small-time Arkansas land deal gone bad -- would dominate a presidential trip that cemented agreements with Ukraine and Belarus to relinquish the nuclear weapons they ...
Testy Bill Clinton
By David Knowles - Politics DailyOf late, we've witnessed a short-tempered Bill Clinton out on the campaign trail. No doubt a lingering effect of all the years spent in the cross-hairs of Ken Starr's meandering, and ultimately lacking investigation, Bill's fuse seems much shorter than when he was president. Consider the the following selection of flare-ups:On Wednesday, January 16th, a reporter approached Clinton to inquire over a lawsuit that has been filed in Nevada to prevent voting to occur in casinos. ...
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