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...lamest of the Senate's lame ducks, Delaware Senator Ted Kaufman should be coasting at this point. No matter what happens in November, he will be out of a job a few days later, when his two-year turn as Vice President Joe Biden's appointed replacement comes to an end. "I'm junior," the wild-haired, 71-year-old former Biden staffer admits. "I can't get more junior." (See the top 10 Joe Biden gaffes...
...great regulatory meltdown" of the past two decades, a move that was largely endorsed by Summers when he served as Treasury Secretary under President Clinton. But the Senator has been careful to avoid criticizing Democrats directly. He says he has not talked with the White House - or former boss Biden - about these issues and has only words of praise for Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd, a onetime champion of deregulation who wrote the Banking Committee bill. "We just have a very different view," he says. (See the top 10 political gaffes...
...original version of this article misstated that Sen. Ted Kaufman had served for 32 years as a Senate aide. In fact, Kaufman served as an aide to then Sen. Joe Biden for 22 years, from...
...latest in a long line of ridiculous scandals that have broken out under the questionable leadership of RNC Chair Michael Steele. While Steele was not personally responsible for this particularly embarrassing expenditure, his tenure has been generally characterized by childish extravagance and gaffes that put even Vice President Biden to shame...
...furor that followed the announcement, during Biden's visit two weeks ago, that Israel was planning to build 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem, the Administration demanded Israel halt new construction in those parts of the city it occupied in the war of 1967, but which are claimed by the Palestinians as their future capital. Not only did the Israelis demur, but hours before Netanyahu arrived at the White House on Tuesday it emerged that Israeli authorities had approved further construction at yet another site in East Jerusalem. No surprise there, since Netanyahu had on Monday told the American...