Nov
12
2005
Bush Forcefully Attacks Iraq Critics photo
TOBYHANNA, Pa. (AP) – President Bush strongly rebuked congressional critics of his Iraq war policy Friday, accusing them of being “deeply irresponsible” and sending the wrong signal both to America’s enemy and to U.S. troops. “The stakes in the global war on terror are too high, and the national…
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Poll: Most Americans Say Bush Not Honest photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Two crucial pillars of President Bush’s public support – perceptions of his honesty and faith in his ability to fight terrorism – have slipped to their lowest point in the AP-Ipsos poll. While the CIA leak investigation, the mishandling of Hurricane Katrina and high energy costs…
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Newsview: Bush Revisits Campaign Playbook
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush seems to be turning the clock back to Election Day 2004, parrying with ex-rival John Kerry and harshly questioning his critics’ commitment to U.S. troops. You can’t blame him for being nostalgic for better political times, when most Americans felt he was a strong,…
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Cheney’s New Chief of Staff Like His Boss
WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President Dick Cheney chose someone in his own likeness to be his new chief of staff. Like Cheney, David Addington shuns the limelight. And like Cheney, Addington already has made a large imprint on the Bush White House. At Cheney’s side since the 1980s, Addington has been a…
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Bush Often Taps N.J. Talent Pool
WASHINGTON (AP) – Its voters twice rebuffed President Bush, so New Jersey seems an unlikely place for the president to find a friend. Yet when it comes to key appointments, the White House keeps seeking – and finding – a helping hand in the Garden State. Take Samuel Alito of West Caldwell, N.J….
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FBI Whistleblower Runs for Congress
MONTGOMERY, Minn. (AP) – For better or worse, Coleen Rowley the candidate for Congress sounds a lot like Coleen Rowley the FBI whistleblower. The former FBI agent who scathingly exposed the bureau’s failure to uncover the Sept. 11 plot is running for a House seat in Minnesota in 2006 as a…
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Green Party’s Hatch to Take on Sen. Hatch
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Five-term incumbent Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, will face a challenge from a distant member of his own family, Green Party candidate Julian Hatch, in the November 2006 election. The Green Party of Utah announced Friday that the 51-year-old environmental activist and disabled…
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Teen Holds Two-Vote Lead in Mich. Race
HILLSDALE, Mich. (AP) – An 18-year-old high school student held on to a two-vote lead to become mayor of this southern Michigan town. County Clerk Thomas C. Mohr on Thursday announced the official tally: Michael Sessions received 670 votes. Mayor Doug Ingles had 668. Earlier unofficial figures had…
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Cheney Honors Veterans, Service Members photo
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) – U.S. servicemen and women are “tracking the enemies of freedom” in the war on terror and bringing them to justice, Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday at a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Cheney laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns and told a…
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Mass. Democrats Angered by ‘KKK’ Joke
BOSTON (AP) – Gov. Mitt Romney was introduced at a Washington luncheon as the head of a state run by the “modern-day KKK … the Kennedy-Kerry Klan,” drawing rebukes from Democrats and Romney himself. The comment was made by Gerald Walpin, a New Yorker who is a board member at the conservative law…
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Campaign Phone-Jamming Case to Go to Trial
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – A former national Republican Party official will stand trial on charges he conspired to jam Democratic get-out-the-vote phone lines on Election Day 2002, a federal judge said. Ruling Thursday, Judge Steven McAuliffe rejected an argument by James Tobin that the conspiracy… |
Nov
06
2005
Briefing Book Casts Alito as Mainstream photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito’s opinions on abortion, discrimination and other contentious issues are the work of a mainstream jurist, not the ideologue depicted by critics, the White House argues in a voluminous briefing book meant for Republican senators. Alito’s dissent…
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N.J., Va. Governor Campaigns Get Nasty
In an off-year election, campaigns for governor in New Jersey and Virginia have turned especially nasty, dragging in Adolf Hitler and an ex-wife’s claim of betrayal in negative ads that pollsters say have turned off the public. And that’s not all. A paralyzed teen in a wheelchair criticized one…
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Bush Loses Nothing, Gains Little at Summit
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP) – President Bush left the Summit of the Americas Saturday with no more than he expected: a cold shoulder from some Latin American leaders, no consensus on a free trading bloc for the hemisphere and biting criticism from anti-U.S. protesters and Venezuela’s leftist…
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Beatty Tries to Crash Schwarzenegger Rally photo
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Actors Warren Beatty and wife Annette Bening tried to crash a campaign appearance Saturday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as the governor sought to drum up last-minute support for a group of statewide ballot measures. The Hollywood couple strode side-by-side to the entrance of an…
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DeLay’s Legal Team Is Close to the Enemy photo
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Rep. Tom DeLay has relied on friends for support in the face of felony indictments, but for his legal strategy, he has tried to get close to his enemy. Two members of DeLay’s legal team once worked for Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle, who heads the investigation into DeLay’s…
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Mich. Democrats Blast Nominating Process
SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) – The Michigan Democratic Party took a shot at Iowa and New Hampshire’s “monopoly” on the first steps of the presidential nominating process, adopting a resolution Saturday calling for fairness, equity and diversity ahead of future elections. Potential 2008 presidential…
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Special Election a Referendum on Arnold photo
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s name will not appear on the ballot Tuesday, when California voters go to the polls to consider initiatives he says are crucial to reshape state government. However, the special election he called is as much a referendum on himself as it is about the “year of reform”…
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Young Detroit Mayor at Risk of Defeat photo
DETROIT (AP) – Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick runs the risk of becoming the first Detroit mayor since 1961 to be defeated in a re-election bid, four years after becoming one of the city’s youngest leaders. Kilpatrick’s quest for another term comes as the nation’s 11th-largest city struggles with poverty…
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Senator Urges Bush to ‘Come Clean’ on Leak
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush should “come clean” about any White House officials involved in the leak of the name of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame and “honor his pledge to fire all those involved,” Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland said Saturday in the Democrats’ weekly radio address….
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Bush Disappointed by Alito Timeline
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP) – President Bush promoted Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on Saturday, while expressing disappointment that he won’t get a new justice on the high court by Christmas as he had hoped. “During his long career in public service, (Alito) has demonstrated all the…
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Bush Leaves Summit Before Talks Finished photo
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP) – President Bush’s hopes of keeping alive his proposal for a Western Hemisphere free-trade zone were in doubt on Saturday, but he left a summit of Americas leaders before negotiations were done. Bush once envisioned a free-trade zone stretching from Alaska to…
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Nov
02
2005
Senate Emerges From Closed Session on Iraq photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – In a day of political drama, Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session Tuesday, questioning intelligence that President Bush used in the run-up to the war in Iraq and accusing Republicans of ignoring the issue. “They have repeatedly chosen…
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Judge Removed From DeLay’s Criminal Case photo
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – In a courtroom victory for Rep. Tom DeLay, the judge in the campaign-finance case against the former House Republican leader was removed Tuesday because of his donations to Democratic candidates and causes. A semiretired judge who was called in to hear the dispute, C.W. “Bud”…
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Newsview: Bush Allies Say He’s Lost His Way
WASHINGTON (AP) – The building blocks of President Bush’s career – his credibility and image as a strong and competent leader – have been severely undercut by self-inflicted wounds, leading close allies to fret about his presidency. They say he’s lost his way. These senior Republicans, including…
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NAACP Leader Voices Concerns About Alito
WASHINGTON (AP) – Only minutes after Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman asked blacks to consider supporting the GOP, NAACP President Bruce Gordon talked about his deep concerns about the Bush administration’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Samuel Alito. “I sense that this is a…
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Bush Outlines $7.1B Flu-Fighting Strategy photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush outlined a $7.1 billion strategy Tuesday to prepare for a possible worldwide super-flu outbreak, aiming to overhaul the vaccine industry so eventually every American could be inoculated within six months of a pandemic’s beginning. Such a huge change would take…
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Post-Katrina Elections Present Problems photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – New Orleans is scrambling to hold credible elections next year though hundreds of thousands of voters have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana’s secretary of state said Tuesday. Al Ater said water-logged voting machines and unreachable registered voters are just two of…
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GOP Senator Discourages Alito Filibuster photo
WASHINGTON (AP) – Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is “clearly within the mainstream” and shouldn’t be filibustered, declared a Republican who helped fashion a plan limiting parliamentary roadblocks for judicial nominees. Sen. Mike DeWine, who met with President Bush’s latest high court choice…
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Democrats Push to Delay Alito Hearings
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Democrats pushed on Tuesday for a 2006 date for hearings on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, challenging President Bush’s call for confirmation by year’s end. “There’s no way you can do an honest hearing by the end of December, or a fair hearing,” said Sen. Patrick…
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N.J. Gubernatorial Candidates Trade Barbs
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – In a gubernatorial campaign already notorious for its negative ads, Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine and Republican Doug Forrester traded conflict-of-interest allegations in a radio debate Tuesday night. The multimillionaire candidates, locked in a tight race that is the most…
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NYC Mayor Steps Up Criticism of Opponent
NEW YORK (AP) – Mayor Michael Bloomberg went after his Democratic opponent Tuesday in their last debate with the most force he has shown in the race, accusing Fernando Ferrer of offering empty protests and no problem-solving. “He stands for complaining, he stands for identifying problems and never…
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Fla.’s Top Elections Official Steps Down photo
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Secretary of State Glenda Hood, who was tapped to restore confidence in Florida’s maligned election system after the 2000 presidential election debacle but faced criticism over a system to purge felons from voter rolls, resigned Tuesday. Hood, whose resignation is… |
