That quiet discontent nipping at Chuck Schumer’s heels is nothing compared with what Harry Reid is facing in Nevada.
Mr. Schumer has been one of Mr. Reid’s most ardent supporters, and has long insisted he’s not thinking about replacing Reid as majority leader, but some observers think he and Senate Read More
If you like a good Congressional leadership fight, then keep an eye on Jerry Tarkanian’s kid.
The 47-year-old Danny Tarkanian, a man best known to Nevadans as the son of the towel-chewing basketball coach who led UNLV to the 1990 national championship (and multiple N.C.A.A. probations), has emerged as the leading candidate Read More
The signs are unmistakable: The Senate’s Democratic leaders are laying the groundwork to compromise away the “public option” that, to much of their party’s base, is the litmus test of whether any health care reform plan is worth enacting.
“We might have to give up the public option or go to a co-op,” Read More
The signs are unmistakable: The Senate’s Democratic leaders are laying the groundwork to compromise away the “public option” that, to much of their party’s base, is the litmus test of whether any health care reform plan is worth enacting.
“We might have to give up the public option or go to a Read More
This year will be remembered in New York as the one when the real estate boom definitively ended. On the ropes since at least the summer of 2007—when the subprime mortgage crisis snowballed into a general credit freeze—the market, both commercial and residential, stood still by the fall of 2008.
Home sales had dropped Read More
I’ve noticed some antiwar politicians describing the terrorism in Iraq as “political” in character. Chuck Hagel has said this. So has Dick Durbin. This is important: they are saying that the terrorism is not based on fanaticism but on feelings of disfranchisement surrounding the emerging Iraqi polity (whatever that is). This idea places them in Read More
More than the inability to influence Iraq policy or the President’s tax cuts, Chuck Schumer says that the single greatest failure of the Democrats as an opposition party was allowing Samuel Alito to join the Supreme Court.
“Judges are the most important,” said Mr. Schumer, who orchestrated the implausible Democratic takeover of the Senate last Read More
More than the inability to influence Iraq policy or the President’s tax cuts, Chuck Schumer says that the single greatest failure of the Democrats as an opposition party was allowing Samuel Alito to join the Supreme Court.
“Judges are the most important,” said Mr. Schumer, who orchestrated the implausible Democratic takeover of the Senate last Read More
Sen . George Allen will be making a statement at 3pm at the Carlyle House in Alexandria, according to a staffer in Allen’s campaign. The campaign will not discuss the subject of his remarks, but the staffer added “I assume that his family will be with him.”
And, coincidentally, Chuck Schumer will be rallying Read More
