With less than two days before the March 1st sequestration deadline, Senate Republicans are drafting a bill that would cancel the $85 billion in discretionary spending cuts and instead cede authority to President Obama to make the same level of
The most hotly debated question in American politics right now is who will win the Republican civil war between the face of the establishment, Karl Rove, and the conservative grassroots. But while that question may be generating tons of media
(AP) Congress set to OK bill renewing anti-violence lawBy JIM ABRAMSAssociated PressWASHINGTONCalling a truce in the partisan battles, Congress appears ready to send to President Barack Obama a bill that renews and expands the nation’s primary law on protecting women
Code Pink got Punk’d. The radical anti-war group tried trumpeting a letter from The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart saying the comic supported the group’s anti-drone campaign. Comedy Central had the unenviable task of telling them the letter is phony.To be
Congressman Bill Pascrell (D – NJ) told Breitbart News on Tuesday that he does not think the embattled Senator Menendez (D – NJ) should step down from his position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “Unless there’s something
As part of their ongoing war on guns, Senate Democrats are planning to push confirmation of Caitlin Halligan to the DC Court of Appeals. A Senate GOP aide told Breitbart News that she’s the “most anti-Second Amendment nominee” Obama has
Organizing for Action, the purported “issues advocacy” social welfare organization established in January, sent out a campaign-style email on Wednesday to an extensive email list of Obama supporters developed by its predecessor organization, the Obama for America presidential campaign committee,
As Republican leaders like House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama get set to meet on Friday, the day the sequester is set to go into effect, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blasted Congress for another “ginned-up” crisis and
The White House has made their most adamant denial yet of the charge made by the New York Times that Organizing for Action was planning to reward $500,000 donors with access to President Obama for quarterly meetings. Over the weekend
In an appearance Tuesday before Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hailed his inflation record as “the best of any Federal Reserve chairman in the post-war period” and said Congress and the Obama Administration should delay looming sequestration spending cuts. “The
Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) took Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to task on Wednesday for saying the looming sequester would be “catastrophic” for the economy and asked Bernanke to submit his own long-term plan to reduce government waste and spending.
On Feb. 26, Vice President Joe Biden met with retired military officials, among them retired Brig. Gen. Stephen Xenakis, to recruit help in pushing an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, and universal background checks. Xenakis, a former
(AP) Kelly wins Dem. nod for ex-Rep. Jackson Jr.’s seatBy SARA BURNETT and SOPHIA TAREENAssociated PressCHICAGOFormer Illinois legislator Robin Kelly has won the Democratic primary to replace disgraced former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Kelly, from the southern Chicago suburb
On Tuesday Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus named Mike Shields, currently the political director at the National Republican Congressional Committee, to serve as his new chief of staff, replacing the controversial Jeff Larson in that position. Larson’s close ties
Obama’s permanent campaign arm, “Organizing for Action” started a Twitter hashtag campaign, last weekend, #WeDemandAVote, which was launched to show popular support for the president’s gun control proposals. Supporters were encouraged to re-tweet his call for Congress to vote on
(AFP) – The United States on Tuesday marked 10 years of war in Darfur, warning that without political talks the Sudan region may face another decade of the devastating conflict. “The United States is deeply concerned that, 10 years after
Romney lost because conservative voters failed to turn out. Conservative voters failed to turn out for many reasons–poor technology being one of them–but also because they are tired of being betrayed by Republican candidates, and they sensed Romney was a
Embattled New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has resorted now to playing racial politics in an attempt to fend off the scandal ripping his political career apart. On Sunday evening, NorthJersey.com reporter Jeff Pillets noted that Menendez “drew broad parallels
Over 30 groups, including the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List), launched the Call2Conscience Campaign to encourage Congress to include language that protects all Constitutional rights in any “must-pass” legislation. The first topic is the HHS mandate that forces employers
The wide ranging gun ban bill introduced by Senator Diane Feinstein (D, CA) could be voted out of committee and passed on to the full Senate as early as Thursday. A schedule posted for the upcoming February 28 executive business
In the last month, we have been subjected to propaganda from the White House warning the American public that practically everything the federal government does will be shut down because of the impending 2.4% sequestration cuts. President Obama has threatened
Absent a last-minute Congressional deal, sequestration cuts to the budget begin to take effect on Friday. The automatic, across-the-board cuts to discretionary spending are the result of the 2011 deal to lift the debt ceiling. If left in place for
An interesting thing is happening in Washington DC. The White House is trying to assign blame to Republicans in Congress for the impending “draconian cuts” to the federal budget known as the “Sequester.” Speaker of the House John Boehner, who
Global financial groups battled Monday to control the lucrative future of “mobile money”, which will enable people to use a smartphone to go shopping instead of cash and credit cards. MasterCard, Visa and online payments service PayPal struggled for a
This weekend, President Obama deployed his entire team of lackeys to detail the parade of horribles that will supposedly inevitably follow the implementation of the sequester on March 1. The sequester, a package of $1.2 trillion in cuts to future
