Day: July 26, 2006

At the rate newspapers are dropping Ann Coulter’s column she may have to start hand delivering her screeds to what few readers she has left.

By Thomas Ferraro

Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Arlen Specter introduced legislation on Wednesday to challenge President George W. Bush’s assertion that he can bypass sections of bills that he signs into law.

If history holds true, Republicans are in big trouble come the November mid-term elections.

In the old days all a newspaper reporter had to worry about was writing his story for the next day’s edition. Now he has to be thinking about multiple platforms and different ways of getting the news out the door.

By Bernd Debusmann
Special Correspondent

With anti-American sentiment at unprecedented levels around the world, Americans worried about their country’s low standing are pushing a grassroots campaign to change foreign perceptions of the United States "one handshake at a time."

A Republican in a competitive Senate race called his party affiliation "an impediment," said he’d "probably not" want President Bush to campaign for him and the GOP-controlled Congress should "just shut up and get something done."

Michael Steele’s campaign confirmed Tuesday that the Maryland lieutenant governor made the comments a day earlier on the condition reporters only identify him as a GOP Senate candidate. However, the campaign said his published remarks were just a sampling from a wide-ranging, 90-minute interview in which he praised the president.

Hardcore conservatives want President George W. Bush to dump Secretary of State Condolezza Rice, saying she is incompetent and has destroyed the nation’s national security and foreign policy agenda.