Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is challenging Senate Republicans to take on President Obama's nomination of Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary. Mr. Gingrich said Mr. Geithner's failure to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 should automatically disqualify him, and that if Mr. Obama doesn't withdraw the nomination Republicans should make a stand.
Judge refuses to recuse self in drilling ban case NEW ORLEANS -- A federal judge who overturned the Obama administration's initial six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling has refused to disqualify himself from the case. Several environmental groups asked U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman to withdraw from the case because of his investments in several oil and gas companies. A federal appeals court rejected the government's bid to restore its temporary ban on issuing new permits for deepwater drilling and suspension of 33 existing drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico. The Justice Department later issued a new moratorium that it hopes will pass muster with the courts. NEW ORLEANS - BP's broken well was leaking oil and gas again Monday for the first time since the company cappe...
Videos hold animal industry accountable I must applaud Karen Steuer for her May 8 commentary, "Industrial animal agriculture is not a pretty picture," in which Steuer mentions proposed legislation in Minnesota that would criminalize photographing or videotaping farm animal facilities. Similar laws are being proposed around the country.
...If the birthers really wanted to disqualify President Obama, they would introduce an amendmen...
During campaign 2008, and despite just four years of experience in the legislative branch of the federal government (two of which he devoted to campaigning for president) and no experience holding executive office, Senator Obama inflated hopes to levels no mortal could satisfy and evoked changes of proportions that even a master statesman could not achieve. [...] President Obama began his term in hard times: According to the Congressional Budget Office, Obama's budget, which involved huge new spending on long-term social and economic programs - cap and trade, health care, and education - set the country on course for a decade of deficits substantially greater than the Bush budget deficit candidate Obama harshly condemned.
..., substantive public policies and disqualify others. It's as if the rules of baseball told you ...
While Libya - as well as Egypt and Tunisia - continue to consume most of the American foreign policy debate's available oxygen, other crucial issues remain at key moments of decision making themselves. Notably, Congress is now debating whether to fund ongoing State Department and development activities in Iraq next year. With all due respect to the new Congress, this should be an easy decision, as such efforts are necessary to solidify the progress experienced there over the last four years. But in fact, these programs and efforts are not enough - we really should keep modest numbers of troops, perhaps 10,000 to 20,000, in Iraq for perhaps two to three more years as well. America's remaining military forces now in Iraq - about six teams reconfigured as "advise and assist brigades" but w...
...Make no mistake about it: The Obama administration cannot force the issue. It was at M... forces, and when he wrongly tried to disqualify some opposition candidates for parliament a year a...
At a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., which capped what an AU media advisory described as "a week of meetings designed to seize the moment and engage the [Obama] administration and other Americans influencing U.S. policy on Africa," Mr. Mwencha said that the Obama administration "will be listening and consulting with Africa [to design] a new foreign policy architecture" for the continent. So while lower-level State Department officials told the AU's deputy chairperson that the Obama administration "will be listening and consulting with Africa," the U.S., with complete disregard for the AUs concerns, considers itself in a virtual state of war, as Obama's executive order suggests, with an AU member state. Calling the ICC's decision "unfortunate" and "racist...
...policy towards Africa, it "can't just disqualify the African Union's views" on matters of such imme...
Barack Obama has denigrated Washington experience, pooh-poohed traditional foreign-policy credentials and rued negative tit-for- tat exchanges in campaigns - in fact, these things were close to the core of Obama's message during the past year. Note the past tense. When it came time to choose a running mate, Obama went with a senator who has been in Washington for 35 years, who earned his foreign-policy chops in years of Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings and Council on Foreign Relations meetings, and who is known for rhetorical belligerency. Plus, he voted for the Iraq War, the very lapse in judgment that is supposed to disqualify John McCain from the presidency.
As an interested observer of the Republican presidential campaign, I am struck by how quickly Michele Bachmann has lost her base of support to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Bachmann's tea party supporters have abandoned her in droves since her victory in the Iowa caucus last month, and they are now rallying to a new star. I am truly at a loss to explain why this has happened, given what seem to me the obvious differences between the candidates - all of which favor Bachmann.
...But I don't think this should disqualify me as a presidential candidate. I didn't notice me... personalities making faces when President Obama found more states in the Union than are actually t...
RADIO/TV PATRIOTS Although I neither received nor pined for the media attention that Sgt. Neil Gussman ["In My Opinion" column, "Radio/TV patriots snipe from safety of homefront," May 30] seems to hold, I agree with his basic point that the toughest talkers are generally the ones who put nothing on the line.
...Gussman's criterion would disqualify presidents Obama and Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Al Fr...
By Charles Babington The Associated Press
...But none felt the matter should disqualify Obama. "If a pastor said something I didn't like, ...
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