Archive for May 2nd, 2009
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Jack Kemp, former QB and Congressman, dies (Politico)
Politico – Jack Kemp, the nine-term Congressman from Western New York, Housing Secretary under George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole’s 1996 running mate, has passed away, his family announced Saturday night.
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Jack Kemp, one-time VP nominee, dies
A spokeswoman says Jack Kemp, a former quarterback, congressman and one-time vice-presidential nominee, has died. He was 73. -
Notre Dame’s Obama invite riles bishops
Notre Dame’s honoring of an abortion rights supporter has triggered a reaction among the nation’s Catholic bishops that is remarkable in scope and tone, church observers say. -
GOP: Obama’s first 100 days all spending, taxing (AP)
AP – Republicans say President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office can be summed up in three words: spending, taxing, borrowing. -
GOP group launches listening tour to rebrand image (AP)
AP – With its party struggling to define itself, a group of prominent Republicans launched a listening tour Saturday in a bid to boost the GOP’s sagging image and regroup for future elections. -
Growing pains for Talking Points Memo (Politico)
Politico – NEW YORK — The Bush years were very, very good to Joshua Micah Marshall.
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Dems sense opportunity on gay marriage (AP)
AP – Gay marriage legalization in several states and the public’s growing acceptance of same-sex unions have Democrats sensing political opportunity and some Republicans re-evaluating their party’s hard-line opposition to an issue that long has rallied its base. -
Obama says financial sector to shrink (Reuters)
Reuters – The financial sector will make up a smaller part of the U.S. economy in the future as new regulations clamp down on “massive risk-taking,” President Barack Obama said in an interview published on Saturday.
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CDC says a third of US flu cases visited Mexico (AP)
AP – About a third of the confirmed U.S. cases of swine flu are people who had been to Mexico and likely picked up the infection there, a federal health official said Saturday. -
US taking `all necessary precautions’ on swine flu (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama said Saturday that the U.S. is taking “all necessary precautions” to be prepared if the swine flu develops into “something worse” and spoke to Mexico’s president about how to keep the flu strain from spreading.
