Tim Geithner, secretary of the treasury, is performing a “Full Ginsburg” this weekend. That’s the colloquial term for what the point-man in the Obama administration’s fiscal cliff talks will achieve Sunday morning, when he appears on ABC’s “This Week,” CBS’s...
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Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner at the Capitol for meeting with Congressional leaders on Nov. 29, 2012.
Geithner’s `Full Ginsburg:’ Sunday
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President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are seen at the Lavanderia coin laundry during their televised debate on October 3, 2012 in Miami.
Debates: 67 Million Watch, Fox No. 1
Updated at 6:15 pm EDT: With 67.2 million people tuning in to the presidential debate last night, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney drew an audience 28 percent bigger than the first face-off between then-candidate Obama and challenger John...
Read more »Obama’s Audience Off from 2008 — Romney Competed with Eastwood
President Barack Obama drew a bigger national television audience at his convention than Republican nominee Mitt Romney did at his, the ratings show. Yet TV viewership this year was off from 2008, according to Nielsen Media Research. Fox News ruled...
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Rep. Todd Akin leaves a news conference after he announced his plans to stay in the race for the U.S. Senate.
Akin: Will Do ‘Everything in his Power’ to Work with GOP in Senate
Though disavowed by many in his own party for his comments about “legitimate rape,” Missouri Republican Todd Akin is hoping for some reconciliation with the GOP. In an interview on Fox Business Network tonight, the Senate candidate, who is trying...
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Playing `Hardball’ With Right Party
Judging from cheers pouring from a crowd packed into a courtyard in Charlotte to see MSNBC’s Chris Matthews “play Hardball” on an outdoor stage, it could be that the cable network will have a better time here than it did...
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People hold signs wishing Sen. John McCain a Happy Birthday as he speaks at the Republican National Convention.
Storybook Ticket: Fox Pre-empts Palin’s Birthday Wish for McCain
Sarah Palin got a chance to wish her former running mate a happy birthday today, just not on the venue she wanted. Palin, in a Facebook post late this afternoon, said Fox News cancelled her appearances tonight — the same...
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Mitt Romney and his wife Ann during a campaign rally at the NASCAR Technical Institute in Mooresville, North Carolina, on August 12, 2012.
Fox News Sunday Teases its Weekend Mitt and Ann Romney Interview
Fox News Sunday is promoting what it calls the “first-ever interview with Mitt and Ann Romney from their summer home in Lake Winnipesaukee” in New Hampshire. Excerpts released by the network today mostly featured Ann’s remarks during a breakfast-time interview...
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Rep. Todd Akin during a news conference on the new Health and Human Services Department abortion rule on March 21, 2012.
Akin Blames `Liberal Media Elite’ – @stillstanding
The way Todd Akin Tweets it, “the liberal media” are out to get him. In a string of messages on Twitter since the Republican candidate for Senate in Missouri vowed to carry on his campaign, including a fundraising appeal to...
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Steve Holloway of Lincoln County, Mo., celebrates word that Todd Akin won the GOP primary at his campaign party at the Columns in St. Charles, Mo., on Aug. 7, 2012.
Missouri Republicans, McConnell: Akin Must Go — Akin: Heck No
Updated at 2:55 pm EDT Now the choir has spoken. So has Todd Akin. Senator Roy Blunt, the Republican junior senator from Missouri, is standing at the front of a line of fellow big-name Missouri Republicans calling for Rep. Akin,...
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A pro-life activist stands in front of pro-choice activists with the National Organization For Women at a vigil outside the U.S. Supreme Court.
Republican Party’s Battle Lines Tested — By a Remark About Rape
It’s serious business when prominent members — and the chief fundraisers — of any political party suggest that one of their own should consider getting out of a contest. That’s what Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts, facing his own...
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