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As Allahpundit wrote of last night's Senate vote to block the president's jobs bill, the outcome was just about as perfect as it could have been for the president, whose jobs package, loaded as it was with tax hikes Republicans were bound to reject out of hand, wasn't designed to pass in the first place. The vote last night provides the basis for Democrats to blame Republican obstructionism for the next 13 months of a slow-to-no recovery, and blame ‘em they will. But they won’t just blame “Generic Republicans.� As the Senate now lays its plans to vote piece by...

Five executives from America’s leading oil companies were marched in front of the Senate Finance Committee Thursday morning for a public scolding, and told to defend industry tax breaks while Americans are being charged $4 for a gallon of gas. In other words, Thursday was judgment day the CEO’s of the country’s five largest oil companies. And because most of the committee’s Republicans were attending a budget meeting at the White House, the executives were left to face a very partisan, very unhappy panel of Democrats. Representing the scorned oil industry was John Watson of Chevron, Marvin Odum of Shell...

<p>HE WANTS TO REPLACE NANCY PELOSI AS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE!</p> <p>LET'S GIVE HIM MUCH DIFFERENT PLANS NOV 3.</p>

The chairmen of the House and Senate Democratic campaign committees sounded differing notes of optimism on Wednesday, just more than a year away from what they say will be a second straight election on the offensive. Speaking to reporters at a briefing, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) was effusive, saying the 2008 election could be “a seminal election” on par with only a few in the history of the country. The two-cycle chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee said the results could “change the tectonic plates of politics.” Schumer said he expects to hold all 12 seats that Senate Democrats...

OMAHA, Neb. -- An Republican insider close to Sen. Chuck Hagel confirms Hagel will announce that he's retiring from his Senate seat. Hagel has scheduled a press conference on Monday morning at the Omaha Press Club. Nebraska Republican leader David Kramer also said, he's "100 percent" sure Hagel will call it quits. In March, Hagel said he was thinking about his political future and would announce a decision soon. Hagel is serving his second term as Nebraska's senator. The New York Times reported, Hagel promised not to run for a third term when he was first elected in 1996. There...

WASHINGTON - Democratic lawmakers are poised this week to send Iraq war funding legislation to US President George W. Bush, who has vowed to veto the measure if it includes a withdrawal timetable.Congressional sources say they expect the final legislation to reach Bush’s desk by the end of the week with language setting a withdrawal of combat forces in 2008 as a goal -- not a requirement.But the outcome of the pitched political battle is far from clear, because Democrats lack the votes to override Bush’s veto and the White House needs the US Congress to approve new spending for...

In this week's episode of Rome (a superb HBO series which increasingly reminds me of the Nation's Capital), Servilia, whose son was killed in a power grab, knelt before the door of manipulative Attia, mother of Octavian and lover of Marc Anthony, the two men responsible, calling out in a haunting cry, "Attia of the Julii, I call for justice." She did so because the unavailing legal system was broken, and curses (which were taken seriously in those days) were the one remaining way most people had to redress grave wrongs. I call for justice for Scooter Libby because he...

Exultant Chuck Says He’ll Veto the Next Alito; New King of Washington Promises Moderate Court; Rove-like, Plans Permanent Democratic Majority; More N.Y. Homeland Money, Iraqi Federalism More than the inability to influence Iraq policy or the President’s tax cuts, Chuck Schumer says that the single greatest failure of the Democrats as an opposition party was allowing Samuel Alito to join the Supreme Court. “Judges are the most important,” said Mr. Schumer, who orchestrated the implausible Democratic takeover of the Senate last week. “One more justice would have made it a 5-4 conservative, hard-right majority for a long time. That won’t...

WASHINGTON - Democrats eased expectations yesterday for seizing the Senate, as last-minute polls showed key contests tightening across the country. "We have never said we are going to take control of the Senate," insisted Sen. Charles Schumer, who heads the Democratic campaign organization, showing less bravado than he did last week. "We have said we're on the edge. That's where we are."

Teachers unions are mad at me. The New York State United Teachers demands I apologize for my "gutter level" journalism, "an irresponsible assault on public school students and teachers." This is because I hosted an ABC News TV special titled "Stupid in America," which pointed out: -- American fourth graders do well on international tests, but by high school, Americans have fallen behind kids in most other countries. -- The constant refrain that "public schools need more money" is nonsense. Many countries that spend significantly less on education do better than we do. School spending in America (adjusted for inflation)...

t really is true that lies have short legs. One way or another, liberals always end up contradicting themselves, tacitly acknowledging that their pronouncements are more political artifice than statesmanlike artistry, more incitive than insightful. What brings this to mind is the controversial plan allowing the Dubai-based company DP World to assume managerial responsibilities at six major US seaports. In the piece I just wrote in opposition to the Arab takeover, I quoted Senator Chuck Schumer, who has become a strange bedfellow in his leading of the charge to scuttle the arrangement. Having a nose capable of detecting political opportunity...

Chuck Schumer reclines on the couch in his office on Capitol Hill, his stockinged feet propped up on the coffee table, a carton of takeout Chinese food perched precariously on his belly. It’s late one night a few days before the start of the confirmation hearings for Samuel Alito, and Schumer is laying out the objectives of each side in the high-stakes game. For the Democrats, Schumer says, the goal of the hearings “is almost metaphysical, or epistemological: It’s to bring out the true Samuel Alito. And his job is to say as little as possible, but enough so...

New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Goldman Sachs Chairman & CEO Henry Paulson; New York Gov. George Pataki; Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY; James Gill, Chairman of the Battery Park City Authority; and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, left to right, toss ceremonial shovels of dirt at the ground breaking of the $2.4 billion Goldman Sachs world headquarters, in lower Manhattan, Tuesday Nov. 29, 2005. Goldman Sachs' decision in August to build its world headquarters across from the World Trade Center site, hinged on agreements by state and city leaders to finance the project with...

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3105/808/1600/janice%20rogers%20brown.jpg MIDI - MRS. BROWN YOU'VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER Janice Rogers Brown, your back is covered Judges wise as you are something rare We've been waiting...we won't wait anymore We'll stand behind George Bush and smack RATS to the floor Janice Rogers Brown, your back is covered We are more than ready for the fight We've been waiting...we won't wait anymore We'll stand behind George Bush and smack RATS to the floor Our culture war, we are set to win We'll all lock and load and let the games begin Janice Rogers Brown, your back is covered Chuckie Schmuckie...

White House Counsel Harriet Miers reacts while speaking with Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N .Y., during a meeting to discuss her nomination to the Suprme Court Capitol Hill Monday, Oct. 17, 2005. Schumer is member of the Judiciary Committee, which will hold hearings and take the first vote on the nomination. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

Liberally-biased press ignores Democratic blunders October 12th, 2005 Dan Hemp, regular columnist Over the past weeks, the media’s judgment of what stories deserve front page news coverage has been controversial to say the least. One such story takes place in Austin, Texas. The district attorney for that area, a hopelessly partisan Democrat named Ronnie Earle, indicted House Majority Leader Tom Delay for conspiring to break Texas election laws with little or no evidence to make his case. Once he realized that he had no chance in court, he re-indicted Delay with the new and more serious charge of money laundering....

Sen. Chuck (I’m outraged again—get me a camera) Schumer (D.-N.Y.) is one busy little bee. Problem is, he’s not busy about the Senate’s business. On a recent day, he was seen whipping up a mob to have Karl Rove, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, hanged from the Senate’s yardarm for disclosing “classified” information that was available on a Google search at the time of the alleged disclosure. His next outrage was directed at Michael Chertoff, Director of Homeland Security. In a Senate floor diatribe, A.K.A., “speech,” Schumer told Chertoff he ought to consider resigning for having the unmitigated gall...

MEDIA ADVISORY: SCHUMER STANDS WITH AMBASSADOR JOE WILSON TO ASK FOR SUSPENSION OF ROVE'S SECURITY CLEARANCE Thu Jul 14 2005 11:15:02 ET White House Should Suspend Deputy Chief of Staff's Security Clearance Information While Investigation is Pending, Until Plame Leak Is Resolved In Light Of Time Reporter Matt Cooper's Confirmation That Rove Was a Source In the Leak of CIA Agent Valerie Plame's Identity, Schumer and Wilson Call For Suspension of Rove's Security Clearance U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and Ambassador Joseph Wilson will hold a press conference at 3:00pm TODAY, July 14, 2005 in the Mansfield Room of the U.S....

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., second from left, accompanied by fellow members of the Senate Democratic Caucus, getsures during a news conference at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, Thursday, April 28, 2005 to discuss the Republican campaign to change Senate rules on filibustering judicial nominees. From left are, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., Schumer, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Nominations of Richard A. Pae and Marsha L. Berzon -- Senate, March 7, 2000.Mr. Schumer: I also plead with my colleagues to move judges with alacrity -- vote them up or down. MIDI - UP UP AND AWAY Would you like to mock a man who is quite a loon Join me as I mock Chuckie Schumer, he's a loon We'll have fun together as we call his office staff Let's have a laugh...let's have a laugh Vote them up or down, that's what he said, this man who is a loon Obstructing nominees, why has Chuckie changed his tune...

Arrest made in Collman death 07:14 AM EST on Thursday, February 3, 2005 Charles James Hickman, 25, has been arrested in connection with the murder of 10 year old Katlyn Collman. Crothersville, Indiana --- A 25-year-old Crothersville man has been arrested in connection with the murder of 10-year-old Katlyn Collman. Charles "Chuckie" James Hickman was arrested early on Wednesday and is facing a preliminary charge of murder, felony murder and criminal confinement. He is currently in the Jackson County jail awaiting an initial court hearing. If convicted, he faces the death penalty. "John and Angie are pleased, they had hoped...

Washington -- After testing the waters for about four months, Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) said yesterday he will not challenge Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) in 2004, citing the time and effort it would take to raise the approximately $30 million necessary for a credible race. "It would take raising $50,000 or $60,000 every day, seven days a week, for a year and a half," King said yesterday in an interview. "If I were sitting on the phone trying to raise $50,000 a day, I couldn't be talking to the White House and fighting for more money for New York." The...

Both Clinton and Schumer were participating in Senate meetings when the call came (of Moynihan's death) but did not want to miss out on the Public Relations buzz that would come from announcing the great Democratic Senator Moynihan's death themselves.'Clinton could barely contain herself with the news,' says a Democratic staffer present at the meeting Hillary was attending along with a number of other Democratic Senators. 'She pratically ran out the door to make the announcement.'Clinton beat both Schumer's and the Moynihan's family announcements by several hours. But Schumer, instead of being angry at Clinton's ghastly behaviour was more upset...

(AP) Senator Charles Schumer said the FBI hasn't done enough to overhaul and expand its anti-terrorism analysis effort. Yesterday was ten years to the day since terrorists detonated a bomb inside a World Trade Center parking garage, killing six people. Schumer used the occasion to write to FBI Director Robert Mueller complaining that "very little has been done" to upgrade data analysis at the agency. An FBI official countered that by the end of the 2004 budget year, the bureau's analytical staff will have quadrupled in size since the September 11th terror attack. Schumer said the FBI must improve its...

The Country Band 'The Dixie Chicks' will sing the national anthem along with numerous other singing acts before the game.ESPN has the pre game starting now at 11AM EST to 2:00 PM when ABC will take over for the rest of the way.Shania Twain, and the rock band 'No Doubt' have the halftime honors.