Author Archives: The Huffington Post News Team

Tom Emmer, Anti-Gay Pol, Gets Donations From Target, Stirring Up Controversy

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 29, 2010
[UPDATED, please see below.] -------- Over at The Awl, Abe Sauer has been documenting the rise to prominence of Tom Emmer, a Republican member of Minnesota's State House of Representatives who is running to replace Tim Pawlenty as Minnesota'...
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Iowa GOP Embraces Plan To Strip Obama’s Citizenship For Accepting Nobel Prize [UPDATE]

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 29, 2010
As we've already seen in Maine, some strange ideas are being folded into the emerging revisions of various state GOP platforms. But something truly bizarre is happening in Iowa. Newsweek's Jerry Adler has paged through some "387 enumerated p...
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Media’s War Coverage: Pushing Pessimism To The Sidelines Yet Again

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 29, 2010
As already pointed out, the big reveal from WikiLeaks this week was that it got the entire American press to admit that the war in Afghanistan is not going well, and that this is representative of the "conventional wisdom." And yet despite thi...
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Erin Burnett: ‘Everyone’s Talking About’ How We Should Extend Bush Tax Cuts To Wealthiest Americans

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 29, 2010
Here's a bizarre exchange between CNBC's Erin Burnett and Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.) that occurred on the teevee today. It began with this set-up from Burnett: BURNETT: Mid-terms obviously play a role in all of this. I want to ge...
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Divisions Emerge Among Republicans Over Elizabeth Warren

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 29, 2010
This story was updated at 11:45 p.m. ET to include mention of a Boston Globe op-ed. A growing divide has emerged among Republicans over the possible nomination of Elizabeth Warren to head the new agency designed to protect borrowers from pred...
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Obama Mocks Polls But Spends More On Them ($4.4M) Than Bush Did

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 29, 2010
With Reporting By Julian Hattem During his daily press briefing on July 13, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was peppered with questions about why the president's popularity numbers are in decline and his policy positions are so diffi...
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WikiLeaks Media Reaction: A Frenzy Of Frantic Yawning Over Nine-Year Long War (VIDEO)

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 29, 2010
While this week's document dump from WikiLeaks on the war in Afghanistan may objectively contain no blockbuster, game-changing disclosures in the form of any single document, it still manages to create something extraordinary: an extended peri...
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GOP Filibusters Small Business Bill After Criticizing Dems For Delay

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 29, 2010
For several days now, Senate Republicans have ridiculed their Democratic counterparts for prioritizing campaign finance legislation over a bill that would benefit small businesses, arguing that Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was putting e...
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Spill Media Response: Where’s The Oil?

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 29, 2010
Seems like only a hundred or so days ago that the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, causing a massive oil-spill volcano to belch millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and all over the shores and beaches and marshes of the Gulf C...
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Nevada’s Economic Misery May Be America’s Future

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 28, 2010
So many homes in Las Vegas have been foreclosed upon that banks rarely bother to hang a "For Sale" sign on the front lawn anymore. Instead, visitors identify bank-owned properties by the brown grass and the 8.5 x 11-inch sheet of paper taped t...
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Dodd Nixes Elizabeth Warren Recess Appointment Option

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 28, 2010
As far as the Democratic base is concerned, the best choice to head up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is Elizabeth Warren. And the Obama administration agrees that Warren is well-qualified to head up the agency essentially inspi...
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Boxer-Fiorina Hairstyles Taken Seriously By Pollster

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 28, 2010
Making minor news today are the recent results of a poll from Public Policy Polling, which surveyed Californians and documented the fact that incumbent Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) leads her GOP opponent, Carly Fiorina, by a margin of 49%-...
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Rendell: Obama Could Face Primary Challenge Over Afghanistan (VIDEO)

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 28, 2010
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell predicted on Tuesday that if the president escalates America's military involvement in Afghanistan he could very well face a primary challenger in 2012. In an overlooked "Morning Joe" segment on Tuesday, the ...
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Gibbs: Whether Obama Makes Recess Appointments Depends On McConnell

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 28, 2010
The Obama administration hinted strongly on Tuesday that it would use the president's power to appoint officials without congressional confirmation during the upcoming August recess should Senate Republicans not confirm these appointments firs...
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HAMP Report Revised After Analysts Question New Metric

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 28, 2010
This story was updated at 8:00 p.m. ET to include two comments from a Treasury Department official. The Obama administration has revised its latest monthly report on its signature foreclosure-prevention plan, deleting a heavily-criticized per...
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State, Local Governments To Fire 481,000 Workers: Report

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 28, 2010
To cover for lost tax revenues, local governments will fire nearly 500,000 workers in the coming year, according to a national survey of counties and cities released Tuesday. The National League of Cities, the National Association of Counties...
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NOW Questions Obama’s Reluctance To Nominate Elizabeth Warren, Asks Whether Sexism At Play

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 28, 2010
The National Organization for Women is asking whether President Barack Obama's apparent reluctance to nominate Elizabeth Warren to head a new consumer agency is due to sexism, according to an email the group sent supporters Tuesday. The noted...
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Washington Post Critics Now Yelling At Paper’s Building (VIDEO)

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 28, 2010
For as long as I can remember (by which I mean "back to late 2009") people have been warning us that the Washington Post has "the worst opinion section in America". But what can you do about it? Write mean things in your little blog, right? ...
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Rob Simmons Running For Connecticut Senate, Ending Stealth Campaign

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 28, 2010
In the weeks since the Connecticut GOP threw its official support behind former WWE CEO Linda McMahon at the state convention, her opponent, former Congressman Rob Simmons, has been running a "suspended" campaign, where he walks around Connect...
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Reid, Merkley, Udall Push Back On Report That Filibuster Reform Lacks The Votes

By The Huffington Post News Team | Published: July 28, 2010
Proponents of filibuster reform moved swiftly on Wednesday to stem speculation that their effort to revamp the rules of the Senate lacks the requisite number of Democratic votes for passage. On Wednesday morning, the Hill reported that five ...
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