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Lost tweak-end all that's left for GOP

WASHINGTON -- Essen tially powerless to stop the Democratic health-care plan from getting rammed through Congress, the Republicans have settled on a strategy of making little fixes where they can and causing enormous discomfort for vulnerable ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Senate,  Joe Biden

Pol now in tickle pickle

WASHINGTON -- Disgraced former New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa admitted yesterday to aggressively tickling one of his male staffers nearly to tears at a party, but strenuously denied it was a sexual advance. Massa's defense came just hours after it ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  10 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Glenn Beck,  Washington Post Company

O can't handle the truth!

WASHINGTON -- Throughout his political career, President Obama could not -- as Jack Nicholson's character in "A Few Good Men" might say -- handle the truth. He had the luxury of going to elegant parties, where he gallantly smoked cigarettes and held ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  6 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Jack Nicholson,  Bill Clinton

Dem rep quits amid sex claim

WASHINGTON -- A freshman congressman, from Western New York announced yesterday that he will retire -- as allegations surfaced that he had sexually harassed a male staffer. Eric Massa (D-Corning) denied reports from House aides on both sides of the ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  4 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Steny H Hoyer,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

Dem rats deserting beach bum Charlie

WASHINGTON -- The congressional whale otherwise known as Rep. Charles Rangel has finally been beached. Just weeks ago, Democrats were bellowing about the need to let the House Ethics Committee finish its investigation. Now, suddenly, they want to ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  3 Mar 2010

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Congressional Black Caucus,  Charles Rangel

It's Tea for Texas

A whole new kind of "Texas Tea" may be brewing in the Lone Star State. Tea Party-activist candidate Debra Medina is likely to force the Republican gubernatorial primary today into a runoff between Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson. ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  2 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Debra Medina,  U.S. Republican Party,  Rick Perry

Tax King Charlie's crown is slipping

WASHINGTON -- It's good to be the king. Just ask newly "admonished" Charlie Rangel. He stands at the intersection of what should be the most sacred and fundamental covenant between the government and us. Supposedly with enormous humility and gratitude, ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  27 Feb 2010

Sound the snooze alarm over peevish prez

WASHINGTON -- Anyone expecting the professor- in-chief yesterday to perform miracles and begin healing all the sick for free and waking his health-care legislation from the dead were mightily disappointed. There was, however, one fairly extraordinary ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  26 Feb 2010

Health-scare tactic

WASHINGTON -- On the eve of today's health-care summit, the White House and Democrats in Congress were threatening to skirt normal Senate rules requiring 60 votes in order to ram through their highly unpopular health-care legislation. The ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  25 Feb 2010

Prez's newest idea: Simply outlaw reality

WASHINGTON -- In cluded in President Oba ma's latest stab at health-care reform released yesterday is one of the more astonishing admissions of political deception in recent memory. After months of swearing that his health legislation would lower the ...

From CHARLES HURT, New York Post,  23 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Congress

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