by Bill Scher | Mar 16, 2007 | Blog
The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire blog reports that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is lowering expectations regarding planned global warming legislation: Speaker Pelosi prompted concerns this week when an aide said a climate-change and energy-independence bill might not...
by Bill Scher | Mar 15, 2007 | Blog
In 2003, President Bush signed a law creating a Citizens' Health Care Working Group to offer health care reform solutions. This week, he dismissed their work. The working group was a bipartisan effort, originating from GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch and Dem Sen. Ron Wyden. The...
by Bill Scher | Mar 15, 2007 | Blog
The conservative global warming denial community may still be kicking, but it is getting smaller. Last year, conservative evangelical Pat Robertson dropped out. This week, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith joins him: Global warming. We know the cause. It's all the cars...
by Bill Scher | Mar 14, 2007 | Blog
At today's Mexico press conference, President Bush further carried Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' messages from yesterday, in blunt fashion: [Gonzales was] right. Mistakes were made. And I'm, frankly, not happy about it, because there is a lot of confusion over...
by Bill Scher | Mar 14, 2007 | Blog
Recognizing that its political purge of eight U.S. attorneys was about to reach critical mass—particularly because of the appearance that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales lied to Congress about it—the White House is now running its script to beat back the...