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...forced delay would certainly endure a First Amendment challenge. "In free-speech areas, government management of speech, even if it's commercial speech, should always be the last resort," says Billy Tauzin, a former Republican Congressman from Louisiana who now runs Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the industry's trade association. Banning tobacco ads is one thing - cigarettes can kill you. But these are prescription drugs we're talking about. They at least have the potential to save you, right? (See the top 10 video moments of campaign...
...governor to change the Senate’s balance of power through a partisan political ploy. Though this situation has not arisen in recent years, it nearly occurred in 2006, when Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) suffered a major stroke. Had Sen. Johnson died, Mike Rounds, the Republican governor of South Dakota, would have appointed a Republican to the vacant seat, thereby delivering the majority in the Senate back...
...hard to take Republican leaders too seriously when they criticize recovery plans for the economy; it's sort of like those geese criticizing evacuation plans for US Airways Flight 1549. Their critiques look even goofier when you see their alternatives. They warn that President Barack Obama's stimulus package will explode the debt - and so they want to make President Bush's debt-exploding tax cuts permanent. They say Democratic spending plans are full of pork - then they propose an extra $24 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers, the federal equivalent of Oscar Meyer. Let's just say their...
...handful of these waivers have been proposed, including, most controversially, one for William Lynn, a former lobbyist for defense contractor Raytheon who has been tapped to serve in the No. 2 job at the Pentagon. But the controversy over the waivers, which have been criticized by both Democratic and Republican Senators, is just one of the perception problems dogging Obama's new ethics policy. Another issue stems from the people nominated to the Administration who have worked in the lobbying business but are not technically lobbyists - people, in other words, like Daschle or former Senator George Mitchell, the new Middle...
...always going to speak his mind, which is why we have such a strong friendship." - Former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, after Steele jokingly likened the "R" denoting the Republican Party to a "scarlet letter" (CBS News, July...