Whatever She's Wearing, We Love It
From the women at Slate:Could Michelle Obama have better color sense? Like Dana, I am loving her apolitically chartreuse outfit. (Although there is some fussiness in the scarf's interface with the...
View ArticleThe Geithner Hearings
The Senate Finance Committee begins hearings this morning on the nomination of Timothy Geithner to be Treasury Secretary. Perhaps the biggest question, as far as Geithner's qualifications are...
View ArticleGeithner's "Troubled Tax History"
Greetings from the Geithner hearings. The Treasury Secretary-designate's tax problem was one of the first things mentioned today by Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus in opening statements....
View ArticleDemocrats for Geithner
After chairman Max Baucus, the first two Democrats to question Geithner -- Sens. Jeff Bingaman and John Kerry -- have both said up front that they intend to vote for Geithner.P.S. After Grassley, the...
View Article"You're Going To Be Confirmed"
That was Republican Sen. Pat Roberts to Geithner, moments ago.
View ArticleEric Holder Vote Delayed
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a brief meeting this afternoon in which Republicans forced a one-week delay in a committee vote on the nomination of Eric Holder to be attorney general. Chairman...
View ArticleObama Took the Oath a Second Time
As for the messed-up oath at the inauguration yesterday, some observers said that right-wing nuts would be hinting darkly that Obama wasn't really president because he had not taken the...
View ArticleThe Geithner Rush Job
I'll have a story up in a few hours on today's Timothy Geithner hearing. There's a lot of action going on tonight in the Geithner matter, all of it happening under a tight deadline of tomorrow morning...
View ArticleTough But Fair
In 2001, during the confirmation of John Ashcroft to be attorney general, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee forced a one-week delay in the committee's vote on Ashcroft, saying there had not...
View ArticleTimothy Geithner's Story
Give Timothy Geithner credit. He has a story, and he’s sticking to it. Even if it’s not the whole story.When the treasury secretary-designate walked into his confirmation hearing before the Senate...
View ArticleTimothy Geithner's Story
I have a new article today on the Senate Finance Committee's confirmation hearing for Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner. As expected, some Republicans questioned Geithner closely about his...
View ArticleAccepting the Unacceptable
A senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee said he believes Timothy Geithner’s failure to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes is “completely unacceptable” and would in any other time...
View ArticleSenate Democrat: Geithner's Tax Offenses "Completely Unacceptable"
I have a new story up today on the Geithner nomination:A senior Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee said he believes Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner's failure to pay Social Security...
View ArticleLimbaugh Responds to Obama
According to an account in the New York Post, President Barack Obama yesterday told Republican leaders, "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done." With George W. Bush now off the...
View ArticleTreasury Secretary Geithner
This afternoon, the Senate is scheduled to take up the nomination of Timothy Geithner to be Treasury Secretary. The debate promises be brief. By unanimous consent, the Senate has allotted just one...
View ArticleThe Geithner Debate
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch is opening up the Geithner debate with a strong statement of support for Geithner. Hatch is repeating an argument he has used in the Senate Finance Committee -- that a...
View ArticleThe Geithner Debate 2
After Hatch's endorsement, Republicans Chambliss, Inhofe, and Thune all said they'll vote against Geithner. Susan Collins announced earlier that she, too, will vote against Geithner.
View ArticleGeithner Confirmed
As expected, the Senate confirmed Timothy Geithner to be Treasury Secretary. But 34 senators voted against the nomination, including Democrats Tom Harkin and Robert Byrd, both of whom cited Geithner's...
View ArticleDemocrats Who Don't Believe Geithner
After the Senate's debate yesterday afternoon on the nomination of Timothy Geithner to be Secretary of the Treasury, ten Republicans voted to confirm Geithner. But only one of them, Sen. Orrin Hatch,...
View ArticleObama and the War War
One more word about Obama's interview with Al Arabiya. The president has promised to escalate the war in Afghanistan. He has promised a very aggressive stance toward Pakistan. And yet in his...
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