While Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias trails leading Republican hopeful Mark Kirk by just three points, Democratic rival David Hoffman - who trails Kirk by seven - still claims to be the more electable of the two. The Hoffman campaign released some of its own polling data on Tuesday and The Hill reports that Hoffman believes Giannoulias' lead over him to be solely down to name recognition,...
On the day George LeMieux was sworn in as U.S. Senator, a black limousine pulled up outside the Capitol and out popped a well-dressed bunch including Scott Rothstein, the now-beleaguered lawyer and political fundraiser. That's the last we saw of...
See PARDON POWER for more information. In previous blog entries, I have followed the Bush and Clinton pardons and commutations of sentences. So far, after 10 months in office, BHO has not exercised this executive power. He has appointed crooks, tax cheats, and other assorted low lives to be unconfirmed "czars" with secretary level powers as his expansion of government with no oversight,...
Gee whiz, not even plague-ridden rodents phase BARACK OBAMA! It’s true: Once upon a time young Barry Obama was talking on the telephone — as Chicago lawyers often do — when quite out of nowhere a grimy rat scurried across the floor and climbed up his leg. TONY REZKO had threatened to unleash the [...] Sponsored Topics: Ronald Reagan - United States - Barack Obama - Chicago - Politics...
by Christi Parsons ARCADIA, Fla. -- President Barack Obama declared today that a "consensus is building" around climate-change legislation and characterized opponents as preoccupied with the past instead of a "clean energy future." Standing on the edge of a large solar-power farm, Obama urged the Senate to pass a measure that caps carbon emissions -- and to set aside arguments...
On Saturday the Washington Post took a look at February's Democratic Primary for US Senate in Illinois, and it reported that some Democrats were nervous about the prospect of State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias winning that race. But the post just scratched the surface in regards to why they are tense. Yes, it mentioned that covicted political swindler Antoin "Tony" Rezko was a customer of...
Our digest of, and commentary on today's Florida political news and punditry follows. Never mind that Mendelsohn guy "On the day he called for a grand jury to investigate public corruption, Gov. Charlie Crist was mum about his ties to indicted political fundraiser Alan Mendelsohn." Mendelsohn held fundraisers at his home for Crist's 2006 governor's race and had used secretive political committees...
In 2002, Rod Blagojevich ended the political career of Jim Ryan, Illinois’s attorney general, by defeating him in the general election for governor. Now, with Blagojevich disgraced and Republicans seeing opportunities in 2010 that they haven’t glimpsed in several election cycles, Ryan seems to be angling towards a run for the governorship. But some Illinois political observers think his...
My brother, who lives in Orange County, California, told me about this video today. By the time I got to a computer, it was already linked up at the Drudge Report. For all of the talk of decorum and respect recently in the wake of Congressman Joe Wilson's outburst during Barack Obama's joint speech to Congress last month, look at the respect given to the governor of California at this particular event...
One can understand an American president’s lobbying for an American city to obtain the Olympics, but the blitz by the Obamas proved a PR nightmare. Let us count the ways: 1) Obama’s brand is trans-nationalism and an “America is not exceptional” multiculturalism. According to his worldview, it makes sense that a South America -- especially a powerful, ascendant country such...
Republicans seem to think they’ve found a liberal equivalent to Joe Wilson in Alan Grayson, whom I profiled in our last issue for his brazenly bloggy temperament. Here he is last night on the House floor saying that the Republican health care plan is to “die quickly.” (Skip to1:52): Jonathan Allen has the goods on the fallout: Republicans called on Grayson last night to apologize,...
Just a few short weeks ago the President spoke to Wall Street CEOs on the anniversary of the Lehman Bros. collapse: Unfortunately, there are some in the financial industry who are misreading this moment. Instead of learning the lessons of Lehman and the crisis from which we're still recovering, they're choosing to ignore those lessons. I'm convinced they do so not just at their own peril, but at our...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former U.S. Democratic Party fundraiser whose 2007 arrest prompted Hillary Clinton to return $850,000 in campaign contributions was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison on Tuesday.
Hassan Nemazee began his rose to prominence as a political fundraiser in the 1990s by bundling cash for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, among others. But he also gave to the GOP.
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