Court documents relating to the 2005 divorce of embattled Illinois Democratic Lieutenant Governor nominee Scott Lee Cohen surfaced Wednesday, alleging the Chicago business man was prone to regular fits of rage–likely side-effects of his abuse of anabolic steroids–and forced himself sexually on his ex-wife.
While still married, which the woman characterized as “pretty unbearable,” Cohen took [...]
Governor Patrick Quinn (D-IL) Wednesday expressed concern over his running-mate’s history of domestic violence, telling reporters that the Democrats’ nominee for lieutenant governor “should step aside,” barring a compelling explanation for his actions.
Scott Lee Cohen, who allegedly threatened his prostitute girlfriend by brandishing a knife and throwing her against a wall, Tuesday won the Democratic [...]
What Chicago election is complete without elements of domestic violence, prostitution and tax evasion?
A Chicago pawnbroker who financed his campaign with nearly $2 million of his own wealth, Scott Lee Cohen Tuesday won the Democratic Party’s nomination for Lieutenant Governor. But with new details of Cohen’s sordid past emerging today, Democratic primary voters will soon [...]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has squandered over $101,000 tax dollars on “in-flight services” on congressional delegations since 2008, according to new documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the government watchdog group Judicial Watch.
Expenditures on Pelosi-led CODELs, the group’s report shows, include thousands for liquor, beer and wine. Receipts show purchase of Johnny [...]
Aides to President Barack Obama acknowledged Tuesday White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel apologized to leaders of the special needs community after a recent screed involving the mentally disabled. At a White House meeting, Emanuel reportedly scolded a group of liberal strategists for attacking wayward Democrats over health care, dismissing the suggestion the White [...]
Senator Arlen Specter and his brash temperament are back in the news.
The incorrigible Republican-turned-Democrat attended a Pennsylvania Progressive forum Saturday, opposite his primary opponent Representative Joe Sestak, where he stormed the stage prematurely during Sestak’s closing remarks.
Explaining why he is best suited both professional and politically for the post, Sestak was unexpectedly greeted by Specter, [...]
The latest senior aide to bolt from the Republican National Committee headquarters, national press secretary Gail Gitcho is leaving to oversee Senator-elect Scott Brown’s communications operation, it was reported Sunday by CNN.
Gitcho, who held communications posts in the campaigns of John McCain and Mitt Romney, is the third senior communications aide to depart in two months, fueling [...]
A kinder, gentler year for Republicans, 2009 witnessed the flipping of two governorships–one in the newly-designated purple commonwealth of Virginia–and the Senate seat long-held by the late Ted Kennedy. The prospective 2012 Republican contenders, too, have capitalized on the base’s renewed vigor, with early front-runners pulling in–and dolling out–millions for their political action committees.
Mitt Romney’s [...]
James O’Keefe, the conservative activist filmmaker who rose to national prominence after he captured on film ACORN employees advising persons posing as a prostitute and pimp on best practices for trafficking in child prostitution, was arrested Tuesday for a failed caper at the office of Louisiana Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu.
O’Keefe and three accomplices aimed to [...]
At CBS News, I make the case that President Obama will be a greater albatross than aid for vulnerable Democratic incumbents locked in tough reelection battles. And, like Clinton before him, Obama will lead Democrats to the slaughter house this November.
A sampling, though do read it in its entirety.
Drowning in a sense of political deja [...]
Pentagon officials acknowledged Friday their aerial refueling tanker program has stalled yet again, leaving uncertain the fate of the Air Force’s outdated fleet of more than 500 tankers.
Vying for the $35 billion contract for 179 tanker planes are the Washington-based Boeing and the Toulouse, France-based European Aeronautic Defense Space Company (EADS), though the former has [...]
A joint radio appearance with Representative Michele Bachman and Senator Arlen Specter turned ugly yesterday when the Pennsylvania Republican-turned-Democrat became irate and demanded of Bachmann that she “act like a lady.”
The pair were invited by Philadelphia-based conservative talker Dom Giordano for a special program marking the one-year anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration.
Asked to reflect on [...]
Marking President Barack Obama’s first year in office, the Republican National Committee Thursday released a new web video which makes no bones about the GOP’s attempts to tap into the anti-tax and anti-big government sentiments among Tea Partiers.
“His rhetoric promised ‘Change we can believe in,’” the voice-over said, “but his record delivered disappointment, change we [...]
While Senator Paul Kirk (D-MA), serving in the interregnum until Tuesday’s special election to fill the seat of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, has largely been lost in the frenetic, disorganized effort by Democrats to maintain control of Camelot, a new analysis by Massachusetts election law experts has thrusted Kirk back into the spotlight, arguing [...]
