WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of President Barack Obama’s highest-ranking advisers will step down from their posts in the coming weeks, White House officials said Wednesday, reshuffling the president’s close-knit team for his final two years in office. Jennifer Palmieri, Obama’s communications director, will step down in the spring and is in line to serve as […]
Mike Huckabee isn’t the only Republican who thinks Beyonce Knowles is “mental poison,” as he refers to the singer in his new book. The new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa poll asked likely Iowa Republican Caucus voters whether they agreed with Huckabee. The question asked: “In his recently published book, Mike Huckabee criticized the singer […]
Yesterday, David Duke announced that he was considering running for a seat in Congress. We otherwise wouldn’t mind, except his last major role in leadership…
At a Wednesday night meeting held at St. Louis City Hall, a verbal exchange between the head of the St. Louis Police Officers Association Jeff Roorda and St. Louis…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Better messaging, not changes in policy, is the key to winning elections again, House Democrats said Thursday as they huddled in Philadelphia to talk strategy. And the message, they said, must focus relentlessly on middle class paychecks. Despite big setbacks in the midterm elections, Democratic lawmakers say they’re sticking to their top […]
When it comes to Bill O’Reilly, you don’t grab the popcorn, you grab the Advil because 99 percent of the time, you’re going to hear…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Thursday tapped former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to serve as chairman of his education foundation, turning over the organization to the former diplomat and academic who remains popular inside the Republican Party. Rice, a professor at Stanford University and partner in a consulting […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Prodding the new Republican Congress from a conservative state, President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged GOP lawmakers to work with him on an agenda that helps the middle class and insisted they offer better alternatives if they disagree with his ideas. “Tell me how we get to yes,” he declared. On […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Attorney General Kamala Harris will seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Barbara Boxer, an adviser with knowledge of her plans said Monday. With her Tuesday announcement, Harris, 50, would become the first prominent California Democrat to enter the 2016 race expected to lure a crowded field. The […]
Republicans aren’t as seriously concerned about courting African Americans as they claimed to be during last year’s mid-term elections. We know it — and they know it. In yet another racially-charged and stereotypical statement directed at black people by a high-profile Republican leader, Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and a possible 2016 presidential candidate, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, a tenacious liberal whose election to the Senate in 1992 heralded a new era for women at the upper reaches of political power, announced Thursday she will not seek re-election to a new term next year. Boxer’s retirement sets off a free-for-all among a new generation of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House threatened more vetoes Wednesday against top-priority legislation of the two-day-old Republican-controlled Congress, and GOP leaders said they intend to keep challenging President Barack Obama to sign early measures that demonstrate bipartisan support. “We’re calling on the president to ignore the voices of reaction and join us,” Senate Majority Leader […]
