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...about the issues, to get involved in the election, and to ultimately vote,” said the site’s founder William M. Ruben ’10. VoteGopher strives to present election information without engaging in political mudslinging. Its contributors, all of whom have taken non-partisan oaths, summarize the candidates’ political platforms. The Web site also posts news and opinion pieces from a variety of outside sources, after VoteGopher’s editors have screened the articles. One of the Web site’s content editors, Elizabeth L. Altmaier...
Dana Perino knows how to elicit a partisan response. In 1998 at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, she trained her Hungarian hunting dog, Henry, to bark when asked, "Should Clinton go to jail?" He growls when you say, "Al Gore," and retrieves a flip-flop when you mention John Kerry. To those critics who say the White House press corps has been conditioned to respond meekly to the Bush Administration, such skills might seem to make her a fitting replacement for Tony Snow, who stepped down as White House press secretary on Sept.14. But after just...
...Senate Democrats are asking for $22 billion more than what Bush requested in his 2008 fiscal budget, which amounts to less than 2% of the overall annual budget. Bush spent part of his news conference trying to make the argument that his veto threat is based on principle, not partisan politics, by stressing that he made similar warnings to G.O.P. leaders when they controlled Congress. "You bet I'm going to put veto threats out,"Bush said. "Of course, I want to remind you, I put a lot of veto threats out when the Republicans were in control of Congress...
...would have to gust into 2008. "For Democrats to get to 60 they'd have to go 8-0 in every plausible race and then find one more from one of the scandal-ridden states and defend Senator [Mary] Landrieu in Louisiana," said Charlie Cook, editor of the non-partisan Cook Political Report, which tracks congressional races. "That's an incredibly tall order...
...ways these past seven years. But the final war on global warming will be fought not with PowerPoint but with politics, and it will be fought in the halls of power around the world. The scientists represented by the IPCC have spoken - what we need now are passionate, even partisan political soldiers to lead the way and push the final tipping point from awareness to action...