AP – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama seized on a record oil company profit to argue that rival John McCain offers only tax breaks for Big Oil and “short-term gimmicks” to consumers struggling with soaring gasoline prices.
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In his 2002 book, “Worth the Fighting For,” John McCain offered this confession — an acknowledgment of a restless mind: “Although I seem to tolerate introspection better the older I am, there are still too many claims on my attention to permit more than the briefest excursions down the path of…
Congress is working on a bonus for soldiers who were forced to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan past their enlistment.
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Reuters – Republican White House
hopeful John McCain accused Democrat Barack Obama on Thursday
of playing racial politics in some of the most biting
back-and-forth of the presidential campaign.
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AP – Country music star John Rich wants like-minded voters to join him in “Raising McCain.”
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AP – House Democrats voted down a public reprimand Thursday that Republicans sought against influential Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., over a questionable housing arrangement that he insists violated no laws.
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AP – House Democrats pushed through legislation Thursday that would give women new tools to combat pay discrimination.
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New Yorker, 2/2/02:
McCain comes from the military aristocracy-he’s John Sidney McCain III, the son and grandson of admirals, third-generation Annapolis-but New York is outside that group’s ambit, so he can think of a trip there as a country boy’s sojourn in the big city. It added to the little-boy feeling that McCain takes an unconcealed pleasure in being fussed over, which he had been, and in mingling with celebrities, which he had done.” [...]
“On the way, McCain reminisced about his evening in New York. ‘Bette Midler was great last night,’ he said. ‘Tony Bennett was marvelous. Natalie Cole did that thing where she sings the duet with her father on a screen. Joel Grey sang “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” I loved what Bette said about Rudy Giuliani.’”
An interim Pentagon investigation found no “credible evidence” that contractor KBR Inc., was aware of life-threatening conditions at the Baghdad building where a Green Beret was electrocuted in January while …
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AP – Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith is crossing over the political fence again to boost his re-election campaign.
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Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) appeared in court to plead not guilty and asked that the trial be held before the November general election.
Prosecutors say the Alaska Republican accepted more than $250,000 in house renovations and gifts from contractors but didn’t disclose them on Senate financial records.
Stevens’ legal team asked the judge to move the trial to Alaska, where the senator has been a political patron since before statehood. Attorney Sullivan also asked that the trial date be speeded up to give Stevens his day in court before the Nov. 4 election.
The trial is scheduled for September 24.
In California, word broke last week that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is attempting to slash the pay of 200,000 state workers down to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sign an executive order next week that will reduce pay for more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 per hour to preserve cash in the midst of a month-long budget standoff, according to a draft copy of the order obtained by The Bee.
$6.55 an hour to pay the rent, keep the lights on, gas up their cars and feed their families. For some perspective, in college at the University of Arizona, I worked 40 hours a week on $7.85 and struggled to pay a modest rent along with all the bills, and I did not drive a car then, either. Gov. Schwarzenegger expects families to survive on $262 gross pay per week?
Democrats across the state are fighting this attempt to thrust the burden of the California budget onto the shoulders of 200,000 state workers with massive cuts.
Controller John Chiang, Speaker of the Assembly Karen Bass, Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, and twenty-seven members of the California congressional delegation led by Rep. Hilda Solis are leading the fight to stop Arnold from shifting the budget burden onto 200,000 state workers.
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