Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who held up Hillary Rodham Clinton's confirmation as Secretary of State on Tuesday, was among the 94 senators voting to approve her appointment today. The lone dissents were David Vitter of Louisiana and Jim DeMint of...
Roll Call, the oldest newspaper serving Capitol Hill, reports that senior Democrats are "increasingly convinced" that Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois will leave Congress to become White House chief of staff if Sen. Barack Obama wins. Earlier, Politico.com reported...
Rob Jesmer, manager of Sen. John Cornyn's re-election campaign, just sent GOP donors an early Halloween scare: Video of Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean and Cornyn's opponent, Rick Noriega, describing their high hopes for Texas on Nov. 4....
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rick Noriega is getting some high and low Clinton help. Last week, Hillary Clinton appeared with him at a fundraiser in the Valley. Next week, it's in Dallas with Bill Clinton. The former president and Noriega...
Calling for the election of his friend John McCain, Independent Democratic Sen. Joe LIeberman urged Democrats to put country ahead of party and "make a great American patriot...the next great president." "Vote for the person you believe is best for...
Everyone else was there: vice presidential nominee Joe Biden and his family, President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton, and Michelle Obama. So it was hardly a surprise when Barack Obama appeared on the stage at the Pepsi Center at...
Played just after Bill Clinton left the stage: "Addicted to Love." Wonder what she thought....
I keep forgetting how much Democrats LOVE them some Bill Clinton. Man. This place exploded when he walked out, screams, flags waving, "Don't Stop Thinkin About Tomorrow" - his theme song - blasting. He couldn't get them to stop. And...
Bill Clinton has come to the Pepsi Center and said the words Obama needed him to say, to end all that fuss and drama stemming from Clinton's frustration during the primaries that many voters didn't view Obama's relative inexperience as...
It was almost like old times at Wednesday night's Democratic Convention session as delegates gave a thunderous welcome to former President Bill Clinton as he came on stage to the strains of his old signature campaign song, "Don't Stop (Thinking...
Intern Michelle Anderson reports: Former San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, an ardent Hillary Rodham Clinton backer in the primary fight, says he will campaign for Barack Obama, including in Nevada, New Mexico and other states with blocs of Hispanic voters....
Willie Brown, the irascible ex-speaker of the California House and ex-mayor of San Francisco, liked Hillary Clinton's call for unity just fine. He just thought its target audience was really small: her husband. "I think she was talking to...
There's a bunch of stuff scheduled for Day 3 (of 4) at the Democratic National Convention, but only two speakers that anyone give's a horse's patootie about: Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden. Biden is the prime-time headliner (no matter how...
"I did not have sexual relations with that no-name filmmaker behind my dying wife's back ... "...
The folks at Jibjab.com won worldwide acclaim for totally nailing the 2004 campaign in their "This Land is Your Land" spoof. Looks like they've done it again, with a 2-minute piece that lampoons Bush, Cheney, McCain, both Clintons, Obama and...
The fervent reaction by the Clinton campaign to the AP story could be because there are several stages to the withdrawal. (Kind of like the stages of grief.) First, she acknowledges that Obama seems to have the delegates to win,...
Over at The New Republic, Michael Crowley hears a candidate about to call it a day, and he notes an interesting observation on how Chelsea Clinton looked. Ben Smith, who blogs the Democratic race for Politico, sees a lack of...
Even more interesting, to me, than Tom Hanks' endorsement of Barack Obama was this line from a New York Times story about what a tenacious fighter Hillary Clinton is. "She has learned how to be ruthless," said Robert B. Reich,...
The former president has riled the Obama camp once again, this time with a statement that seemed to question Barack Obama's patriotism. Speaking to a group of veterans in Charlotte, N.C., Bill Clinton was discussing the possibility of a...
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