Archive for February, 2008

Bush’s younger brother visits Paraguay (AP)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Neil Bush, younger brother of U.S. President George W. Bush, talks to journalists after a meeting with Paraguay's President Nicanor Duarte in Asuncion, Feb. 28, 2008. Bush is visiting Paraguay with members of the Universal Peace Federation church.(AP Photo/STR)AP - Neil Bush, younger brother of U.S. President George W. Bush, called on Paraguay’s president as the guest of a business federation founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.


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Democrats’ agenda: homes, oil, populism (AP)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. Pelosi asked the Justice Department on Thursday to open a grand jury investigation into whether Josh Bolten, the White House chief of staff, and Harriet Miers, President Bush's former counsel, should be prosecuted for contempt of Congress.  (AP Photos/Susan Walsh, FILE)AP - Congressional Democrats are turning to more populist, economic themes like mortgage foreclosures and big oil companies’ profits now that military progress in Iraq is generating mixed political reviews.


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Dems take McCain out of context on Iraq (AP)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., laughs with Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, as he speaks to employees at a campaign stop at Dell Inc. in Round Rock, Texas Friday, Feb. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - No, John McCain is not proposing a 100-year war in Iraq.


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Pennsylvania GOP Primary: McCain 59% Huckabee 30% (Rasmussen Reports)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Rasmussen Reports - The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters in Pennsylvania found John McCain with a commanding lead over his fellow Republican candidates. McCain earns support from 59%, Mike Huckabee from 30% and Ron Paul from 5% in the Keystone State.

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Bush, Fed chief see no recession ahead (AP)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivers the Fed's Monetary Policy Report, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, during an appearance before the Senate Banking Committee.   (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)AP - The economy is in turmoil, yet President Bush and Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke say the country will weather the storm. Neither sees a recession on the horizon.


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The Other Texas Primaries: GOP Contenders Competing to Regain House Seat (CQPolitics.com)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

CQPolitics.com - In 2006, few losses for the Republican Party were as unexpected or hurt more than Texas’ 23rd District. That December, Democrat Ciro D. Rodriguez defeated Republican Rep. Henry Bonilla in a runoff election. It was icing on the cake for Democrats, who had won a majority of U.S. House seats in the national elections one month earlier.

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New sanctions aimed at Syrians (AP)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

AP - The Bush administration on Thursday announced it was imposing economic sanctions on four people it accused of helping with the flow of money, weapons, terrorists and other resources from Syria into Iraq.

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CORRECTED: McCain says meets Constitution presidency rules (Reuters)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., campaigns at Goode's Armadillo Palace in Houston, Texas, Tuesday, March 4, 2008, the day of the Texas presidential primary election. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Reuters - Republican candidate John McCain said on
Thursday he was sure he was constitutionally qualified to be
president even though he was not born in a U.S. state.


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Senate Republicans block Democrats’ housing bill (Reuters)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

A foreclosed home in Chicago, January 28, 2008. A Democratic proposal to curb rising home foreclosures by changing bankruptcy law failed a key test vote in the Senate on Thursday. REUTERS/John GressReuters - A Democratic proposal to curb rising
home foreclosures by changing bankruptcy law failed a key test
vote in the U.S. Senate on Thursday.


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Reid: Anti-war fight to continue (AP)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

An Iraqi national flag frames an Iraqi army helicopter flying over Basra airport in 2007. A Russian made Mi-17 helicopter belonging to the Iraqi military has crashed in northern Iraq, killing eight people on board including a US soldier, a US military official told AFP.(AFP/File/Ali Al-Saadi)AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pledged on Thursday to continue trying to end the Iraq war even though he lacks the votes to force a troop withdrawal.


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