President Barack Obama has been Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s biggest political foil. Scott launched his political career from Tea Party rallies in 2009 opposing the president’s 2010 health care law. On the campaign trail in 2010, many of his TV...
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott expressed his disappointment about the supreme court's decision concerning the health care bill. Photograph by Steve Cannon/AP Photo
After Obama-Vote, Scott Drops Opposition to ‘Obama-care’
Boehner vs. Gingrich: Really
John Boehner was one of two nominated today for speaker of the House in the 113th Congress. The other? Newt Gingrich. That’s right. The former Georgia representative who resigned his speakership in 1998 and then left Congress a few months...
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Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, in Australia on Nov. 14, 2012. Photograph by Sergio Dionisio/Bloomberg
Buffalo News Looks Ahead: Hillary in ’16!
The curtain hasn’t quite come down on 2012, but the Buffalo News is now the clear frontrunner for the year’s “Jumping the Gun” award. The reason? An editorial earlier this week essentially endorsing Hillary Clinton for president in 2016. Must have been...
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 14, 2012, stating they'd block the nomination Susan Rice as Secretary of State. Photographer: J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
Obama to McCain: `Go After Me’
President Barack Obama had some fighting words today for the senator he faced in 2008: If Sen. John McCain and allied Republican Lindsey Graham want to complain about the administration’s handling of the attack against the U.S. diplomatic post in...
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Arizona Dream Act Coalition staff members, who advocate for young immigrants. Photograph by Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo
Obama: Immigration Reform Coming
When’s the last time Telemundo got a question near the top of a presidential news conference? What was the Hispanic vote for president on Nov. 6? President Barack Obama 71 percent, Republican Mitt Romney 27 percent. Immigration reform, the president...
Read more »Obama: No Security Breach in Petraeus Affair
President Barack Obama said today that he has seen no evidence of a breach of national security in the FBI investigation of e-mails involving retired Army General David Petraeus and a woman with whom the former CIA director was having...
Read more »Obama: `Very Clear Deadline’ — Don’t `Hold Middle Class Hostage’
“We face a very clear deadline,” President Barack Obama said today of the so-called “fiscal cliff” looming at year’s end. “There’s only one way to solve these challenges and that is to do it together… I am open to compromise,...
Read more »Senate Republicans: Picking Horses
Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas, picked to run the Republican Party’s next run of Senate campaigns, says he wants to prevent Democrats from choosing Republican candidates in future elections. “I think it’s important for Republicans to initially make certain that...
Read more »Have You Run a Republican Lately?
Let’s say the Republican Party was a company. Four years ago, the leaders huddled in their boardroom and asked the question: How can we win back market share? Rather than push into new markets, Republican Inc. decided to shrink its...
Read more »Jill Kelley on `Inviolability’
Updated at 1:25 pm EST What’s in a title? For Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite who embraced the world of the top brass at U.S. Central Command, it’s not only a license plate. It’s also “inviolability.” Kelley, whose e-mails complaining...
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