“Everybody knows that behind the scenes that he’s the dirtiest, nastiest political player out there,” Spitzer said of Cuomo Thursday.
Month: September 2010
Jack Welch, Next In Line to Claim The Obvious: Obama is Anti-Business
High unemployment may last for a long time because of the sluggish economy, bad politics and advances in technology, Jack Welch, author of “Straight from the Gut,” told CNBC Thursday.
President Barack Obama’s administration has an “anti-business” bias which manifests itself through intimidation, trade, taxes and regulation, Welch also said.
Barack Obama Can’t Fill Roosevelt Ballroom for Speech – The Daily Beast
Who would have thought that six weeks before a cliffhanger election, President Obama would have to reach down to the D list to fill a room to listen to him? Most of us low rollers arrived early to see President Obama up close and personal. Our tickets for the general reception at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York were only $100. Some thought the email invitation was a joke. Some bought tickets for $50 from their desperate Democratic committeeman. Some bought the same day.
via Barack Obama Can’t Fill Roosevelt Ballroom for Speech – The Daily Beast.
Examiner Editorial: Obamacare is even worse than critics thought | Washington Examiner
Why Bob Woodward’s New Book Should Scare the Hell Out of All Americans – Big Government
Matthews Scolds Obama: ‘Stop Saying Cutting Taxes Is Giving People Money – It`s Their Money!’
This might be the first intelligent thing I’ve heard Matthews say.
Cuomo (D) Afraid to Debate Paladino (R) for NY Governor Race
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Asked about whether he would agree to debate Paladino, Cuomo raised the possibility of requiring that Lazio, who may still run
in November on the minor party line, be part of the debate. Cuomo wouldn’t respond when told that tactic is usually done to dilute the opposition’s message and air time.
When pressed, Cuomo wouldn’t say if he will debate.
“As soon as the question was asked, I said I was open to debate and the campaigns would talk about it. That was just last week,” Cuomo said, with six weeks left in the campaign. “Open to debating’ means I’m open to debating, just what the words suggest… that really isn’t a legitimate issue.”
Paladino spokesman Michael Caputo said Cuomo’s campaign was not negotiating. “They are ducking me,” Paladino said.
Seems DOJ Officials Lied to Civil Rights Commission on Black Panther Dismissal, According to Freedom of Info Act Results
Stunning new developments in the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) voter-intimidation scandal indicate that high-level Justice Department officials have been misleading the public and Congress. Indeed, they may also have committed perjury before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Judicial Watch recently filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit requesting documents related to the case, and today it released a log produced by the Justice Department of e-mail communications and other documents that Justice is withholding from disclosure on purported privilege grounds.
The log details numerous discussions and legal deliberations between the Civil Rights Division and political appointees in the highest reaches of the Justice Department, including former deputy attorney general David Ogden and Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli (the number-two and number-three officials under Eric Holder). Other documents show that Eric Holder was also briefed on how to respond to Hill inquiries.
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Another of Obama’s Surreal World Academics Returns in Failure to The Protected World of Tenure
The White House said Tuesday that Lawrence H. Summers, the chief architect of President Obama’s economic policy, would leave at the end of the year, continuing an exodus of top-level advisers at a time when voters are expressing deep dissatisfaction with the president’s stewardship of the economy.
The White House says the departure has been long-planned; Mr. Summers, 55, said in a brief interview that he must return to his professorship at Harvard by January to keep his tenure. His departure gives Mr. Obama a chance to reshape his economics team after the midterm elections, when Republicans are expected to gain strength and possibly reclaim the majority in Congress.
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via Obama Adviser, Summers, Will Return to Harvard – NYTimes.com.