Congress has fast-track power to kill Bush rules

President-elect Barack Obama will have limited authority to overturn federal regulations approved in the waning months of the Bush administration. But a little-used power offers the new Democratic Congress an early test of how aggressively lawmakers might unravel such rules pushed through by Republicans.

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McCain says racism will barely affect election

Republican presidential candidate John McCain says racism will play virtually no role when voters head to the polls next Tuesday because it will be trumped by the nation's economic problems.

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Congress Unlikely to Buy Bush Proposals

A Democratic Congress is poised to heed President Bush's call to help save the economy, but may not give him much else after a State of the Union speech that recycled many of the administration's past initiatives.

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Bush Says Congress Wasting Time, Money

President Bush, successful in forcing the Democratic Congress to bend to his will, complained Thursday that lawmakers had wasted time and taxpayers' money. His aggressive stand set a confrontational tone for Bush's final year in the White House.

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Washington Wakes Up to Global Warming

Maybe it's the weird winter weather, or the newly Democratic Congress. Maybe it's the news reports about starving polar bears, or the Oscar nomination for Al Gore's global warming cri de coeur, "An Inconvenient Truth." Whatever the reason, years of resistance to the reality of climate change are suddenly melting away like the soon-to-be-history snows of Kilimanjaro.

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Iraq War Still Being Compared to Vietnam

Another Vietnam? Defenders of President Bush's Iraq war policy have long shrugged off such comparisons. But as the war heads toward the four-year mark and a newly empowered Democratic Congress takes aim at presidential spending for more troops, the comparisons are becoming more frequent.

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Bush Insurance Plan Gets Cold Reception

President Bush's proposed tax deduction for health insurance appears to be shaping up as a tough sell in the Democratic Congress.

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U.S. Wants to Modify Trade Deals

The Bush administration, facing a Democratic Congress, said Wednesday it would seek a "substantive adjustment" to the labor provisions in free trade agreements already negotiated with Peru, Colombia and Panama.

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Bush Works to Sell Troop Buildup Plan

The Bush administration worked Thursday to persuade a skeptical Congress and American public to accept President Bush's troop buildup plan as the last best chance for reversing Iraq's slide. "We cannot afford to fail," said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

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Bush Seeks Cooperation From New Congress

President Bush pushed his signature agenda in a newspaper opinion piece Wednesday while asking Democrats, in charge of the House and Senate for the first time in his presidency, to work with him on legislation over the next two years.

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New Mexico Governor Decries Border Fence

Blasting House Republicans' proposals to control immigration as a "monument to demagoguery," New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson urged the new Democratic Congress to pass a bill securing the border and enabling some illegal immigrants to gain citizenship.

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Does everyone but Pelosi understand what is going on in the country? Is the democratic party going to allow its radicals to take it off the cliff?

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President Obama said it best when he talked about U.S. policy in Afghanistan on the CBS news program 60 Minutes last month: "There's got to be an exit strategy".

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Should congress bailout US automakers?

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Weapons dealers in much of the United States are reporting sharply higher sales since Barack Obama won the presidency a week ago.

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"November 06, 2008 New York Times WASHINGTON — After years of unfettered growth in military budgets, Defense Department planners, top commanders and weapons manufacturers now say they are almost certain that the financial meltdown will have a serious impact on future Pentag …

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Hopes of a Republican victory on the presidential level are already distant this year, but further down the ticket, hopes are simply nonexistent.

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John McCain trails Barack Obama and shows no signs, at the moment anyway, of propelling himself into the lead. Democrats lead in eight Senate seats currently held by Republicans and are close in three others. In the House, Republicans once thought they'd lose only 5 to 10 seats.

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Is this the Change You Want America?

What really happened the last 2 years? George Bush has been in office for 7 3/4 years. The first six years the economy was fine.

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The first year of Democrat congressional leadership in 15 years has ended not with a bang but a thud. Reid and Pelosi spent the entire year trying to show their extreme left support groups that they could turn Pelosi logic into federal law. It was a miserable failure.

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It looks like the Bush administration and the republicans are actually starting to grow a backbone when it comes to restraining spending. They still have not gotten over their appetite for pork though.

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Why have we not heard about the latest congressional page scandals? I thought the new dem leadership in town was going to fix all of these problems?

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi's popularity is plummeting as Democrats realize she is ineffective, Republicans find her dishonorable and voters feel betrayed. That's what she gets for putting politics first.

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Sorry, Democrats... things just aren't going your way right now.

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Auto workers should emphatically reject the total surrender by the UAW and fight for an indefinite national strike against Chrysler and its Wall Street owners, Cerberus Capital Management.

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Now President Bush and Senate Republicans want a quick Senate vote to confirm Bush's nominee Michael Mukasey as Attorney General to replace the disgraced Alberto Gonzales.

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President Bush called on Congress today to step up efforts to pass a variety of his stalled domestic and security priorities and declared himself open to compromise in the politically charged standoff over expansion of a children's health insurance program that faces a key vote t …

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Çare about starting wars? It looks like our friends the dems in congress want Turkey to start a shooting war between them and the Iraqi Kurds. That will be the end result of passing this resolution calling what the Turks did to the Armenians a genocide.

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The Nobel Prize was at one time reserved for people who made a positive difference in the world. Now, it recognizes propogandists, posers, and frauds. Jimmy Carter won for giving the North Koreans Nuclear Techology, which they have used for Nuclear weapons.

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Trouble in lib land. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 — Of the three most recognizable Barneys in America, one is a singing purple dinosaur, another is a prehistoric cartoon character and the third is a gay congressman from Massachusetts.

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Most Americans oppose fully funding President Bush's $190 billion request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a sizable majority support an expansion of a children's health insurance bill he has promised to veto, putting Bush and many congressional Republicans on the wrong  …

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I've just learned that Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO) will be introducing a resolution in the House of Representatives on Monday condemning Rush Limbaugh for his "phony soldiers" remark.

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It is worth noting that Buchanan was Nixon's speech writer and longstanding Washington conservative who is saying this, not some wild eyed "liberal" who "hates" the GOP.

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No progress on ending the war. No advances on new energy policy. No movement on health care costs. Why is Congress gridlocked?

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The first comprehensive survey of 2008 battleground House seats shows Democrats holding a distinct edge.

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The road to reducing greenhouse gas emissions gets a lot rougher when laudable principle turns into policies that could make for difficult economic choices.

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