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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for May 2012
Blog Entries for Wednesday, May 9
Lugar Gets Knocked Out
After 36 years in office, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana suffered the same fate that has sent other veterans in the Congress back home, as his career was unceremoniously ended in a lopsided defeat in his state's Republican primary. "Downfall of a Statesman," was the headline in one Capitol Hill ...
Blog Entries for Monday, May 7
House Budget Debate
As the U.S. House takes up the first spending bill for the Fiscal Year 2013, the White House wasted no time in threatening to veto a $51.4 billion measure covering the Commerce and Justice Departments and other agencies like NASA. In a statement, the White House said this spending bill ...
Lugar's Last Stand
Six years ago when Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) last ran for re-election in the Hoosier State, there wasn't even a Democrat on the November ballot against him, as Lugar cruised to victory for a sixth term in the Senate with over 87% of the vote. The situation couldn't be more ...
GOP Primary Tuesday
After Ron Paul's win in Maine over the weekend, and successful efforts by his backers to win delegate slots in other recent state GOP conventions, Mitt Romney will look for ways to snuff out any protest-vote-momentum in primaries today in West Virginia, North Carolina and Indiana. 107 delegates are at ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, May 6
Ron Paul Wins Maine
As backers of Ron Paul have been predicting for months, the organization of the Texas Congressman has not given up, as Paul chalked up his first outright victory of the 2012 race in Maine on Sunday, winning 23 of 24 delegates to the GOP convention. But, wait a second you ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, May 3
GSA Tax Breaks
On the same day that there were echoes of the controversial General Services Administration conference in Las Vegas that featured magicians and more, Republicans in Congress charged the GSA was basically demanding kickbacks from contractors who obtained a federal tax credit for energy efficiency. Republicans on the House Ways and ...
NOAA Zaps Magician
A few hours after this reporter and other news organizations began reporting that a federal agency was looking for a magician to teach leadership skills to employees at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, officials yanked the advertisement and referred the matter to the agency's General Counsel for further review. ...
NOAA ISO Magician
Just a few weeks after Congress got all hot and bothered by an expensive government conference that featured clowns, a mind reader and magician, another federal agency is now advertising for a magician to be a motivational speaker at a June gathering just outside Washington, D.C. The group requesting the ...
Bin Laden's Kill-Don't Kill List
One of the pieces of correspondence released on Thursday by the U.S. Government from Osama bin Laden included direct orders to Al Qaeda subordinates to shoot down Air Force One if President Obama came to visit Pakistan or Afghanistan. But it also included an interesting "Don't Kill" list. Bin Laden ...
Bin Laden Letters I
One letter written to Osama bin Laden that was released today by the U.S. Government concerns media efforts to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. U.S. Intelligence believes the letter was written by Adam Gadahn, an American who has been a senior operative in Al Qaeda. It was ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, May 2
Newt Gingrich's Farewell
The Newt Gingrich campaign finally came to an end on Wednesday just outside of Washington, D.C., as the former Speaker of the House gave a backhanded endorsement to GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney and vowed not to shrink from the political scene in the future. "I am suspending my campaign," Gingrich ...
Positive Ad for Romney
The outside Super PAC that is backing Mitt Romney's candidacy for the White House is starting a $4.3 million ad buy in nine different states, running a positive spot that highlights Romney's efforts to help find the daughter of a one-time business partner. The ad buy from the group Restore ...
Romney's Economic Focus
A day after the secret trip of President Obama to Afghanistan on the first anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney came to the Washington, D.C. suburbs and did his best to turn the page, using a campaign stop in Virginia to focus on economic ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, May 1
Obama Afghanistan Speech
The White House released the prepared remarks for President Obama's address to the nation from the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, as the President marked the one year anniversary of the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Mr. Obama said the U.S. is ready to transition control of ...
Obama in Afghanistan
The White House announced shortly after 3pm that President Obama had flown overnight to Afghanistan and will address the nation at 7:30pm ET. Here are early pool reports to reporters on the trip: URGENT Obama in Afghanistan, to deliver televised address to American people Tuesday night Pool report No. 1 ...
Gingrich to Bow Out
It took a week, but former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich is finally making it official Wednesday afternoon, that he is getting out of the race for the Republican nomination for President. In a video message to supporters issued on Tuesday, Gingrich did not mention Mitt Romney's name, but did ...
Swiss Bank Account
President Obama's re-election campaign has unveiled a new attack ad against Mitt Romney, which ends with a jab about Romney and his "Swiss bank account." The ad will initially run in Virginia, Ohio and Iowa. The ad begins by defending the President against some attacks made on his energy policy, ...
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