THE CLAIM: Endorsing Kay Bailey Hutchison for governor in Houston on Wednesday, former Vice President Dick Cheney said: "When Texas was faced with a budget shortfall and some legislators were proposing an income tax, Kay stood with the taxpayers...
Kay Bailey Hutchison stayed in Washington yesterday to vote on a military appropriations bill before heading to Texas for a campaign fundraiser. Rick Perry says she should have stayed little longer - long enough to vote against an Obama appointee...
It was touch-and-go, but word now is that Kay Bailey Hutchison will attend tonight's rally and fundraiser in Houston with Dick Cheney. There was a possiblity that the Senate would take a preliminary vote today on health care -- something...
Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday received another endorsement. The Texas Association of Builders HOMEPAC backed his re-election campaign during a conference at the Gaylord Hotel. During a news conference after the announcement, Perry discussed the endorsement he didn't get. Former...
The Associated Press reports: AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Former Vice-President Dick Cheney will throw his support behind U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's campaign for governor. The Hutchison campaign confirmed Wednesday that Cheney will endorse the Texas Republican's March primary challenge...
Last Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation, Texas Sen. John Cornyn called on President Barack Obama to more quickly decide how to proceed in Afghanistan: send in more troops, as his top commanders have urged, or withdraw and shift...
President-elect Barack Obama has announced that he'll give up the Senate seat he won just over four years ago effective Sunday, just before the Senate returns for a week-long lame duck session to discuss a new stimulus package and ways...
Roger Simon of Politico.com writes that if John McCain loses, he will be remembered for having run one of the worst campaigns in modern political history. One example of the campaign's ineptitude, Simon writes, is this weekend's endorsement from...
The endorsements keep rolling in. Ex-Bush press secretary and Austin native Scott McClellan announced Thursday he'll vote for Obama, a few days after the president's first secretary of state, Colin Powell, threw his support to the Democrat. But, no...
What do you get when you mix a folksy figure of speech, a female vice presidential nominee, a dead heat election, and a slow news day? No, it's not a dead fish, and it's not a pig with makeup....
The White House seems to be leaving the door open to an appearance or speech by President Bush to the Republican Convention later this week. Mr. Bush cancelled plans to address the convention Monday night because of Hurricane Gustav, and...
With Hurricane Gustav bearing down on the Gulf Coast, Republicans are planning to confine their first day of their convention Monday to necessary business such as adoption of rules and a platform and are likely to cancel Monday night's session....
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...
Vice President Cheney has weighed in on Scott McClellan and his tell-all book. Hasn't read it, doesn't plan to. "I thought Bob Dole got it about right," he said yesterday at the National Press Club. As a reminder, here's what...
Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., says Scott McClellan's book is full of "shocking revelations," and the former Bush press secretary should testify to the House Judiciary Committee about the administration's "deliberate efforts to mislead the American people into the Iraq War."...
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