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In Senate, coal fuels climate deals

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Lisa Lerer - Nov. 17 (News Report) - Forget the debate over green jobs, wind farms and solar power. In the Senate, all deals on climate change run through coal country. Black gold has maintained a tight hold over the climate bill — despite a damaging lobbying scandal this summer, growing public health concerns and a destructive toxic coal ash spill that smothered 300 acres in eastern Tennessee last December.

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Green groups split on Danish idea

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Eamon Javers - Nov. 17 (News Report) - U.S. environmental groups are split over how to respond to the Obama administration’s decision to go along with a Danish proposal not to push for a binding global climate agreement at a United Nations conference in Copenhagen next month. The global environmental group Greenpeace blasted the move, calling it a sop to President Barack Obama’s political vulnerability. “Danish Prime Minister [Lars Lokke] Rasmussen has become complicit in a U.S. so-called deal which would put Obama’s political difficulties ahead of the survival of the world’s most vulnerable countries,” said Kaisa Kosonen, climate policy adviser for Greenpeace International.

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Chevron's lobby campaign backfires

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Kenneth P. Vogel - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Facing the possibility of a $27 billion pollution judgment against it in an Ecuadorean court, Chevron launched an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign to try to prevent the judgment as well as reverse a deeply damaging story line. Chevron’s tactics — ranging from quietly trying to wield U.S. trade policy to compel Ecuador’s government to squelch the case, to producing a pseudo-news report casting the company as the victim of a corrupt Ecuadorean political system — were designed to win powerful allies in Congress and the Obama administration as well as to shape public opinion and calm shareholders.

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Women could spell trouble for the GOP

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Glenn Thrush, Meredith Shiner - Nov. 09 (News Analysis) - the growing schism between the Republican Party’s ascendant right wing and its shrinking moderate core has clear gender undertones — and Scozzafava’s departure raises fresh questions about the GOP’s ability to recruit, elect and even tolerate the sort of moderate women who used to be part of its ruling mainstream.

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W.H. attacks worry moderate Dems

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Jonathan Allen, Jake Sherman - Oct. 23 (News Report) - A White House effort to undermine conservative critics is generating a backlash on Capitol Hill — and not just from Republicans. “It’s a mistake,” said Rep. Jason Altmire, a moderate Democrat from western Pennsylvania. “I think it’s beneath the White House to get into a tit for tat with news organizations.”

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Protests present GOP with tricky task

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Kenneth P. Vogel, Alex Isenstadt - Sep. 13 (News Analysis) - The 'Taxpayer March on Washington' proved that conservative protesters can turn out in impressive numbers to protest the direction of the Democratic-led federal government, but it also presented Republicans with a tricky task in figuring out how

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Seven things to watch tonight

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Eamon Javers - Sep. 09 (News Analysis) - Viewers who tune into President Barack Obama’s health-care address tonight will see all the usual trappings of a big-time speech – members of Congress applauding or sitting quietly, depending on their partisan viewpoint, and guests in the gallery carefully selected to match key message points.

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SCOTUS campaign case could boost GOP

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Kenneth P. Vogel - Sep. 08 (News Analysis) - Campaign finance experts predict the court, which has demonstrated an inclination towards incremental loosening of rules restricting the flow of money into politics, will expand the types of ads corporations and unions can pay for. Their only question is just how much the justices will open the floodgates.

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Pundits on Afghanistan

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - Sep. 01 (News Analysis) - As the death toll rises in Afghanistan, pundits debate President Obama's current strategy in the eight-year war.

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GOP rebranding effort flames out

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Patrick O'Connor - Aug. 11 (News Report) - Since its launch, the National Council hasn’t held a single public event, despite more than 5,000 invitations to take their show out on the road. Congressional ethics rules limit what Cantor can do with the group because he launched it from his leadership office, making it harder to organize events and recruit partners. Despite that caution, the group is still taking heat from outside watchdog groups that argue he is violating the spirit, and perhaps the letter, of those rules.

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Left and right both let down by Sonia Sotomayor hearings

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Manu Raju - Jul. 18 (News Report) - On the right, conservatives are asking: If Republicans won't fight tooth-and-nail to derail a Supreme Court nominee they find out of the mainstream, what will they fight over?

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Republicans in House, not governors, lead way back to power

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Daniel Libit - Jul. 14 (News Report) - Written off six months ago as the least-powerful wing of an impotent party, House Republicans say they’re finding their footing again — and that they’re ready to challenge the idea that GOP governors provide the best hope for a Republican resurgence.

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Republicans criticize Obama at Sonia Sotomayor hearing

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Eamon Javers - Jul. 13 (News Analysis) - In the early hours of the Sonia Sotomayor hearings, it sometimes seems that the person being scrutinized is not the Supreme Court nominee but the man who appointed her — President Barack Obama.

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Some convincing needed on health bill

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Carrie Budoff Brown - Jul. 06 (News Analysis) - President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats pushing a massive health care reform package have yet to answer a central question for middle-class Americans: What’s in it for me? As Democrats hustle to pass legislation by August, strategists say they need to prove to this bloc of voters – insured, but worried about the stability of their coverage – that they will personally benefit.

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Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Mike Allen - Jul. 03 (Breaking News) - For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few": Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors. The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff." With the newsroom in an uproar after POLITICO reported the solicitation, Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli said this morning that he was "appalled" by the plan and said the newsroom will not participate.

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For Obama, a lesson from the bottom up

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By David Rogers - Jun. 26 (News Analysis) - In the space of just 24 hours, three very different skirmishes in Congress this week taught one lesson to President Barack Obama: Keep your community organizer hat on, because politics is still local.

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What Obama didn't mention

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Mike Allen - Jun. 24 (News Analysis) - A couple of surprising words were missing from President Barack Obama’s 55-minute news conference on Wednesday: “Iraq” — and “Afghanistan.” Also MIA: “Korea,” “Pakistan,” “soldiers,” “surge” and “war” — as well as the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.

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President Barack Obama's poll numbers start to wilt

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Michael Falcone, Andy Barr - Jun. 23 (News Analysis) - Eroding confidence in President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy and ability to control spending has caused his approval ratings to wilt to their lowest levels since he took office, according to a spate of recent polls, a sign of political weakness that comes just as he most needs leverage on Capitol Hill.

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All but over for Coleman, experts say

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Michael Falcone - Jun. 07 (News Report) - Seven months after Minnesota's Senate election, the state's highest court hasn't reached a decision but election law experts agree: Norm Coleman doesn’t have a prayer. These experts see almost no chance Coleman's lawyers will prevail in their appeal to the state’s high court to count more ballots in a bid to erase Al Franken’s slim lead. Peter Knapp, a professor at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, pointed to the court's oral arguments on Monday, when the justices expressed skepticism toward Coleman’s lawyer, Joe Friedberg.

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Anatomy of a bank loss

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Jeanne Cummings - May. 19 (News Report) - By lunchtime, the nation’s big banks and credit card companies are expected to suffer an extremely rare moment: an unmitigated, transforming defeat on Capitol Hill.

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Obama bites rich hands that fed him

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Jeanne Cummings - May. 06 (Opinion) - Beyond the obviously wealthy voters, people who in many places are no more than upper middle class find themselves targeted to pay for a wide range of Obama policies aimed at leveling the economic playing field.

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Obama: 'We're off to a good start'

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Josh Gerstein - Apr. 30 (Opinion) - For the first time, President Barack Obama acknowledged Wednesday that aggressive interrogation of terror suspects led to useful intelligence, but he stood by his insistence that using methods like water-boarding amounts to torture and said his decision to ban them makes the country safer.

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News may eclipse 100-day mark

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Jonathan Martin - Apr. 28 (News Report) - With the still-boiling debate over torture ongoing, one of the Big Three car companies on the verge of bankruptcy and even an outbreak of swine flu dominating the headlines, Obama and his aides may be able to lessen the focus on the traditional milestone they deride as an overwrought “Hallmark holiday.”

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GOP still using disputed data

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Lisa Lerer - Apr. 23 (News Report) - GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence is defending Republican use of a widely disputed cost estimate on a Democratic global warming proposal, even after an outcry from media, environmentalists, and climate change experts.

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'Truth Commission' hurdles remain

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Josh Gerstein - Apr. 22 (News Report) - President Barack Obama turned heads Tuesday by abruptly warming to the idea of a war-on-terror “truth commission” and by opening the door to prosecution of Bush administration lawyers and senior officials.

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