DeMint seeks ‘new Republicans’
December 10, 2009
Jim DeMint says he needs to be able to work with some ‘new Republicans” in the U.S. Senate.
Obama defends war while accepting prize for peace
December 10, 2009
President Barack Obama entered the pantheon of Nobel Peace Prize winners Thursday with humble words, acknowledging his own few accomplishments while delivering a robust defense of war and promising to use the prestigious award to “reach for the world that ought to be.”
A wartime president honored for peace, Obama became the first sitting U.S. president in 90 years and the third ever to win the prize — some say prematurely. In this damp, chilly Nordic capital to pick it up, he and his wife, Michelle, whirled through a day filled with Nobel pomp and ceremony.
And yet Obama was staying here only about 24 hours and skipping the traditional second day of festivities. This miffed some in Norway but reflects a White House that sees little value in extra pictures of the president, his poll numbers dropping at home, taking an overseas victory lap while thousands of U.S. troops prepare to go off to war and millions of Americans remain jobless.
House approves $1.1 trillion spending measure
December 10, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are muscling through a deficit-swelling spending bill, giving domestic programs their third major boost this year and awarding lawmakers with more than 5,000 home-state projects….
Full Text of Obama’s Nobel Prize speech
December 10, 2009
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world:
I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility. It is an award that speaks to our highest aspirations – that for all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.
GOP memo: ‘Delay, stall, slow down’
December 10, 2009
Steele’s memo urges party leaders to spend ‘every bit of capital” to stop the health bill.
Geithner defends extension of bank bailout
December 10, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday defended his extension of the government’s unpopular financial bailout as necessary to safely wind down the program….
Olbermann: Health deal ‘deranged’
December 10, 2009
He says that losing the pure public option is a ‘total and unmitigated defeat without a war.”
FAA chief reluctant to raise minimum pilot hours
December 10, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Aviation Administrator Randy Babbitt expressed reluctance Thursday to increase the number of flight hours required to be an airline co-pilot, a key safety recommendation arising from an airline crash in upstate New York last February….
Poll: Israeli opinion of Obama mixed
December 10, 2009
Poll of Israelis suggests Obama is viewed more favorably than unfavorably but also seen as naive.
Speech Writers, Their Responsibility
December 10, 2009
I have listened to the grand speeches of world leaders for easily 60 years but it took only the last 20 years to realize they were put together by professionals who knew what the public wanted to hear.