A little compare-and-contrast. On the GOP side, John McCain has decided against a bitter battle to bend the party platform to match his own idiosyncratic views :
Republicans are inviting suggestions for their party platform this year, and thousands have responded online. But when a committee meets to draft the document in Minneapolis next week, one voice will be largely absent: John McCain’s.
The Republican standard-bearer is at odds with his party on such hot-button issues as global warming, immigration, campaign-finance overhaul, stem-cell research, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Many party stalwarts are also deeply skeptical when it comes to judicial nominations, given his Senate record.
Instead of fighting with party activists to form the platform around his own ideas, Sen. McCain has taken a hands-off approach. He "is a voice in this process," says Steven Duffield, executive director of the platf...
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Eine weitere Personalie in Barack Obamas Kabinett ist enthüllt: Der designierte US-Präsident will den Außenexperten und früheren Energieminister Bill Richardson als Minister für Handel nominieren. ... more
Change We Can Believe in.... Attacks from the left are comming.... Or the Messiah can do no wrong.
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Quote:Obama drops proposal for windfall profits tax
By DAVID IVANOVICH Houston Chronicle Copyright 2008
Dec. 2, 2008, 2:24PM
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama has shelved a proposal to slap the oil and gas companies with a new windfall profits tax because oil prices have dropped so much in recent months, the transi... more
ABC News Gates Says He and Obama on the Same Page on Iraq New York Times - 29 minutes ago By DAVID STOUT WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates declined on Tuesday to embrace President-elect Barack Obama’s goal of removing all American combat troops from Iraq within 16 months, but expressed confidence that he and Mr. Video: Obama Picks Gates, Clinton for Foreign Policy AssociatedPress Poll: Americans feel good about Obama, Cabinet choices USA Today Voice of Ame... more
Another Slow Start From: suckmycaucus.com Post Date: 2008-12-02 01:00:51
According to economists, the US economy first went into recession in December of last year. “Now you tell me,” said John McCain. ... more
I was a bit amused last week to see that Rob Haney , lately the chair of the Republicans in Legislative District 11, was ousted by former legislator Steve Tully . Haney has been waging a one man war against John McCain , which has included anti-McCain resolutions before the Republican State Committee and an interview on NPR where he criticized McCain for being too liberal.
According to one R-Cubed source within the Republican party, folks in the district club, some of whom supported Hane... more
Sify McCain calls on Pakistan to cooperate over Mumbai probe AFP - 38 minutes ago NEW DELHI (AFP) — Former US presidential candidate John McCain called on Pakistan Tuesday to cooperate with India as it investigates the attacks on Mumbai ... John McCain in Delhi to show solidarity Economic Times McCain to show solidarity with India visit Livemint McCain opposes military action against Pak Press Trust of India Sify - Thaindian.com ... more
In what will almost certainly be the most practically significant case of this term, a major, major win for defendants, especially corporate defendants, today in the Supreme Court, and via a 7-2 decision written by Justice Souter from which only Justices Stevens and Ginsburg dissented.
The Court, in Bell Atlantic v. Twombly , No. 05-1126 (May 21, 2007), held that plaintiffs in an antitrust conspiracy case may not survive a motion to dismiss the complaint at the outset under Rule 1... more
The Supreme Court today, in Kennedy v. Louisiana , found that the Eighth Amendment bars the death sentence of a man who brutally raped his 8-year-old stepdaughter, causing traumatic physical injury (decency doesn’t permit quoting here the Court’s discussion of the facts on p. 2 of its opinion), to say nothing of the emotional trauma. The decision was 5-4, with Justice Kennedy writing the opinion joined by the Court’s liberal bloc. The decision is significant in thr... more
Peter Abraham summarizes the problem with unsafe, easily-splintered maple bats, and - sadly - why they are yet another thing that, as was so long true for steroids and the DH rule, (1) should be subject to immediate rulemaking by the Commissioner but instead (2) will likely be held hostage indefinitely by the players’ union in the hopes of getting the owners to make some concession in return for a ban. Which is not to suggest in either case that the owners are pillars o... more
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