Chuck Blahous, Pro-Privatization Bush Aide, Nominated To Social Security Board
For much of 2005, a battered Democratic Party sought to regain its footing by doing battle with President George W. Bush over his attempt to carve pri...
For much of 2005, a battered Democratic Party sought to regain its footing by doing battle with President George W. Bush over his attempt to carve pri...
Sheila Herrling | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics
An arduous vetting process coupled with diminished authority is a virtual perfect storm for leaving the post vacant and the elevation of development and reform of foreign aid stalled.
The Washington Independant | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
On Monday, nearly four months after President Obama nominated Harold Koh to become legal adviser to the State Department, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) fil...
The Washington Post | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
Robert M. Groves will have to wait a little longer to take the reins at the U.S. Census Bureau: Senate Republicans have placed a hold on his nominatio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs stressed on Monday that while the president was not taking age into consideration when choosing his Supreme Court n...
CBN | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
Maybe the Obama administration should have nominated George Hamilton instead of David F. Hamilton. The hollywood actor may have an easier time at conf...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
Sen. Hillary Clinton's ascension to the post of Secretary of State has never really been in doubt, even after Sen. John Cornyn put a hold on a confirm...
Politico | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
In 1961, Robert F. Kennedy predicted that the country could elect a black president in the next 40 years. That's how fast race relations were changing...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.12.2008 | Media
Expect to hear a lot about Charlie Crist, Katherine Sebellius, Jim Webb, Bobby Jindal, Chuck Hagel, Joe Biden, Wes Clark, Tim Kaine, and, thanks to precedent, Jim Johnson -- but for now this is what we noticed from last night's coverage, in no particular order.
AP | TOM RAUM and NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
***Scroll Down For Video Excerpts And Full Speech*** ST. PAUL, Minn. — Before a crowd of cheering thousands, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
There is a consensus developing around Washington that Barack Obama's presidential campaign is hoping to herd a dozen or so superdelegates into its ca...
AFP | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
Warren Buffett, the world's richest man, is backing Barak Obama for US president and thinks current US economic policy will push the dollar lower agai...
Politico | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
Concerned about appearing presumptuous or antagonistic towards Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama will not declare victory in the Democratic nominat...
NY Times | Jim Rutenberg | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
The contest with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton not quite over and the one with Senator John McCain not quite under way, Senator Barack Obama is float...
Fox News | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics
National polling firm Rasmussen Reports announced on Friday that it will stop polling people about the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Cl...
Politico | David Paul Kuhn | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
Not long after the polls close in the May 20 Kentucky and Oregon primaries, Barack Obama plans to declare victory in his bid for the Democratic presi...
Lawrence O'Donnell | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
A senior campaign official and Clinton confidante has told me that there will be a Democratic nominee by June 15. He could not bring himself to say the words "Hillary will drop out by June 15," but that is clearly what he meant.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
Tim Russert decided late last night that Obama has all but won the nomination, saying: "We now know who the Democratic nominee is going to be." [WATC...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
The Obama campaign again accused Hillary Clinton of moving the political goal posts in her efforts to claim a legitimate shot of winning the nominatio...
Wall Street Journal | Jonathan Weisman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics