SASC Member Scott Brown Loses Tough Re-election Fight
Massachusetts GOP Sen. Scott Brown has lost his sometimes-nasty re-election bid to Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren, removing from the upper chamber a close defense-sector ally.
Massachusetts GOP Sen. Scott Brown has lost his sometimes-nasty re-election bid to Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren, removing from the upper chamber a close defense-sector ally.
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Five full days of campaigning to go and the race for the White House appears, according to the so-called experts, a dead heat. What a difference a few weeks makes. Through much of October, it appeared President Barack Obama had the easier path to the 270 votes needed to secure an Electoral College victory. To…
Three GOP senators are pressing President Obama anew for details about a deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Libya. Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire allege in an Oct. 31 letter to Obama they are “concerted effort to misrepresent the facts” about a…
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., continues to pummel the White House over a deadly consulate attack in Libya, on Friday labeling comments by President Barack Obama “a lot of B.S.” Graham’s sharp criticism was followed soon on Friday (Oct. 26) after by him joining fellow GOP Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Kelly Ayotte of New…
As President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney are feverishly barnstorming swing states trying to gain support from swing voters, the incumbent picked up a key endorsement early Thursday. Colin Powell, who was national security adviser and secretary of state to two GOP presidents, endorsed Obama on Oct. 25 during an appearance on “CBS This…
Is the 2012 presidential campaign essentially over? One longtime Washington insider says Mitt Romney has it in the bag — but such predictions are not slowing the GOP campaign’s media buys.
Sure, it happened after 6 p.m. on a Friday. But, while prepping dinner, this Intercepts scribe had to wonder: Did the Pentagon just throw the White House, CIA and State Department under the bus? The BlackBerry buzzed at 6:08 p.m. on Oct. 19, delivering a press release from Senate Armed Services Committee members John McCain…
What did we learn during the second presidential debate about the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Libya that left four dead? We are all confident U.S. President Barack Obama did indeed use the word “terror” when he spoke about it the following day in the Rose Garden. That’s all, however.