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Gov. Chris Christie calls for Republican Party rebranding
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday in an interview with Politico outlined a path for the GOP to rebrand as the party keeping “our eye on the cash register," while also praising some Democrats for taking the right approach to tackling major issues like education. Christie, a darling of Conservatives after staring down Democrats over the Budget and Tax Cuts, demonstrated his own distinct brand of Conservatism over a breakfast interview. Without naming names, the seven-year former...

Kagan and Roberts united at confirmation hearings
From CNN Supreme Court Producer Bill Mears Washington (CNN) - If confirmed to the Supreme Court as expected, Elena Kagan would work with and independently of Chief Justice John Roberts. That's the nature of the Court's internal dynamics, and the concept of the one Justice-one vote system in which the Chief Justice is often called "first among equals." Roberts' five-year leadership of the nine-member Court has frequently been as much a part of Kagan's Senate Confirmation Hearing this week as...

What Price Christie, Part 5
Posted by John at 12:48 PM These days, there is no more effective public servant than New Jersey's Governor Chris Christie. In this CNBC video, he runs a victory lap following the New Jersey legislature's Adoption of his Austerity Budget on a Bipartisan basis. The Budget closes a massive Deficit by cutting spending by 9%, with no increased taxes. Every special interest Group hated the Budget, and some have threatened to sue. Governor Christie's response: "If they want to sue me, they can...

Chris Christie Calls for Republican Rebranding
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday in an interview with Politico outlined a path for the GOP to rebrand as the party keeping "our eye on the cash register,” while also praising some Democrats for taking the right approach to tackling major issues like education.   Christie, a darling of Conservatives after staring down Democrats over the Budget and Tax Cuts, demonstrated his own distinct brand of Conservatism over a breakfast interview. Without naming names, the seven-year...

Christie: GOP Should Avoid Demagoguery
In a wide ranging interview with Politico , New Jersey Governor Chris Christie warns the Republican party against demagoguery, and points out areas where Conservatives could work with the White House, such as education: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday in an interview with Politico outlined a path for the GOP to rebrand as the party keeping “our eye on the cash register," while also praising some Democrats for taking the right approach to tackling major issues like...

New Jersey Legislature, Governor Christie Fight Over Funds to Abortion Centers
Trenton, NJ (LifeNews.com) -- When Governor Chris Christie ran for office last year, he campaigned on a Pro-Life platform and he is making good on his promise to advocate life. At present, he is skirmishing with Democrats in the state legislature over the millions in Taxpayer funds the state sends Abortion centers for family planning. Although the money doesn't directly fund Abortions, Christie thinks there's little reason to send the Abortion centers $7.5 million when the state...

Chris Christie Refuses To Endorse Hard-Line Approach On Immigration
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been the darling of the conservative wing of the GOP for his no-nonsense approach to fiscal policy, but they’re not likely to be happy with his stand on Immigration: On the hot-button topic of Immigration Reform, he said he has long declined to "demagogue" the issue as a former U.S. Attorney, because "I come from Law Enforcement and it's not an easy issue." But he did intimate that he thinks stringent state-by-state Laws " such as in...

Gov. Christie On Immigration Reform: "I'm Not For Amnesty"
Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) on Immigration Reform: "The Federal Government has to get in. They have to secure our borders and they have to set up common sense rules to give people a pathway to Citizenship." Gov. Christie said the state of New Jersey itself can do "very little" to fix this problem, however. On people who enter legally: "[They] have to be given a pathway to become citizens." On those who enter US illegally: "My view is that they need to get on the back of the line." Christie says...

Goldman says it doesn't know how much it made from housing crash
Washington — A congressional commission pressed Goldman Sachs executives Wednesday to spell out how much their company has earned from its exotic bets against the Housing Market, including $20 Billion in wagers that helped force a $162 Billion Taxpayer Bailout of the American International Group. However, Goldman's president and chief risk officer told members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission that their company never breaks out its figures that way. "We can dig and dig...

GOP Senators Push Kagan On Immigration Cases
Solicitor General Elena Kagan on the third day of her Confirmation Hearings. (photo by Channing Turner / Main Justice) Senate Judiciary Committee members on Wednesday tried to get a in-depth look inside the Solicitor General's Office and a better understanding of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan during her third and final day before the panel. But Kagan's remarks left some senators unsatisfied. Senators pressed Kagan during a seven-hour back-and-forth to discuss matters connected to her...

GOP Senators Push Kagan On Immigration Cases
Solicitor General Elena Kagan on the third day of her Confirmation Hearings. (photo by Channing Turner / Main Justice) Senate Judiciary Committee members on Wednesday tried to get a in-depth look inside the Solicitor General's Office and a better understanding of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan during her third and final day before the panel. But Kagan's remarks left some senators unsatisfied. Senators pressed Kagan during a seven-hour back-and-forth to discuss matters connected to her...

Is Bill Clinton Stealing Obama's Mojo?
Former President Clinton bucked the White House in endorsing the challenger in Colorado’s Senate race. Mark McKinnon on why 42’s popularity is surging—while Obama may be the kiss of death this fall.

Chris Christie vs. the demagogues
I'm a big fan of New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, who I think is doing an incredibly good and thankless job at working to balance the state's Budget while also cleaning up the public schools in the face of bitter Union opposition. Politico has an interesting interview with the Governor, in which Christie warns the GOP against demagoguery and insists that Republicans and Democrats can work together on a number of issues: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday in an interview with...

Obama to sign Iran sanctions bill on Thursday
Washington— President Barack Obama will sign Legislation Thursday imposing tough new sanctions against Iran as further punishment for the country's unwillingness to give up its ambitions of becoming a Nuclear Power. The House and Senate acted in quick succession last week to overwhelmingly approve the penalties targeting Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard and its imports of gas and other refined energy products. The action followed a fourth round of U.N. Security Council sanctions...

US House passes historic Wall Street overhaul
The US House of Representatives gave its final approval to the biggest overhaul of Wall Street rules since the Great Depression of the 1930s, leaving the landmark bill in the Senate's hands. Lawmakers voted 237-192, along party lines, to give Regulators an arsenal of new Weapons against risky investment practices blamed for the 2007-2009 global Financial Meltdown and hand President Barack Obama a major political win. "Today's vote is a victory for every American who has been affected by the...

US House passes historic Wall Street overhaul
The US House of Representatives gave its final approval to the biggest overhaul of Wall Street rules since the Great Depression of the 1930s, leaving the landmark bill in the Senate's hands. Lawmakers voted 237-192, along party lines, to give Regulators an arsenal of new Weapons against risky investment practices blamed for the 2007-2009 global Financial Meltdown and hand President Barack Obama a major political win. "Today's vote is a victory for every American who has been affected by the...

Kagan: 'Don't ask, don't tell' is unjust
Washington, June 30 (UPI) -- U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan , President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, said Wednesday the Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is unwise and unjust. When asked by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., about her action to ban Military recruiters from Harvard University's career services office while she was dean of the Law School, Kagan said, "I was trying on one hand to ensure Military recruiting, and on the other, defending the School's long-standing...

Blagojevich Considered Appointing Himself To Senate
Rod Blagojevich tried to sell President Obama's U.S. Senate seat but he also considered appointing himself in a worst-case scenario if he didn't get the right bribe. "I really believe the worst thing Obama wants is me going there," Blagojevich says in secret FBI recordings played Wednesday at his Corruption trial in a Chicago Federal Court. The graphic recordings of conversations between Blagojevich and a top aide reveal that the famously crooked Governor was desperate to make money...

Obama and the Blogojevich Trial
In a way, President Obama made an appearance in today’s Rod Blagojevich Corruption trial : “ According to the Testimony of Chicago Labor Leader Tom Balanoff, he received a phone call the night before the 2008 Presidential Election from then-Sen. Obama saying that he thought his advisor Valerie Jarrett fit the criteria for United States Senator. Balanoff recalled Obama saying in the phone call that he preferred Jarrett working for him at the White House but expressing that Jarrett...

Goldman says it doesn't know how much it made from housing crash
Washington — A congressional commission pressed Goldman Sachs executives Wednesday to spell out how much their company has earned from its exotic bets against the Housing Market, including $20 Billion in wagers that helped force a $162 Billion Taxpayer Bailout of the American International Group. However, Goldman's president and chief risk officer told members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission that their company never breaks out its figures that way. "We can dig and dig...

Kagan on Partial-Birth Abortion, Take Two
Posted by John at 7:36 PM I wrote here about Elena Kagan's role as point person for the Clinton Administration on Partial-birth Abortion, and the fact that she collaborated in twisting a report by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in a more pro-partial-birth Abortion direction. None of what follows will make much sense unless you have read last night's post, so if you haven't, please do, and then return here. Kagan was asked about these events today by Orrin Hatch. In order...

All Is Not Quiet On The Budget Front
Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos just released this harshly worded statement: “The whole Budget process has been a failure of leadership by the Governor, Senator Sampson and Speaker Silver.

Senate GOP again kills jobless aid extension
Washington (AP) - For the third time in as many weeks, Republicans in the Senate have successfully filibustered a bill to continue providing Unemployment checks to millions of people. But since Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine voted with Democrats to advance the $33 Billion measure, its passage seems assured next month once a replacement is named for Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, who died on Monday. Democrats would then have a Filibuster-proof Majority for the bill. About...

Reid to Meet With Obama, Biden
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will meet with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday afternoon, the White House indicated Wednesday. LOG IN NOT A SUBSCRIBER Username Password Forget your password? Click here or Call 202-824-6800 Subscribe to Print and/or Online Click Here Hill Users have Free access, click Here to register.

US envoy concerned about relations with Venezuela
Caracas, Venezuela (AP) - The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Venezuela expressed concern Wednesday that President Hugo Chavez's government has focused its agenda on opposing Washington and said he fears trade between the countries is fraying. Ambassador Patrick Duddy, who will soon end his assignment in Caracas, said he hopes the two countries can improve cooperation in some areas. "But these are difficult times for the bilateral relationship," he said. The United States remains Venezuela's...