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Obama talks jobs at Cabinet meeting

From NBC's Athena Jones In a Cabinet meeting Monday afternoon, President Obama acknowledged fledgling economic growth had not yet improved things on the jobs front and previewed a summit next week aimed at helping find ways to spur job creation. The ...

From DOMENICO MONTANARO, MSNBC,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Bureau of Labor Statistics,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party,  John Doe

Kennedy flap reveals old Catholic divide

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro The news of Rep. Patrick Kennedy's Communion flap with Rhode Island's hard-line bishop is yet another chapter in the long history of the divide between Kennedy social justice Catholics and more hard-line conservatives, ...

From DOMENICO MONTANARO, MSNBC,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Patrick Kennedy,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Mario Cuomo,  Geraldine Ferraro,  Nancy Pelosi

Sanford facing 37 charges

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro AP reports: "South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford faces 37 charges he broke state laws limiting official use of airplanes and campaign money. The details were released Monday by the State Ethics Commission. They came five days ...

From DOMENICO MONTANARO, MSNBC,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mark Sanford,  Ethics Commission,  John Doe

A GOP purity test?

From NBC's Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro First Read has obtained a resoultion being e-mailed around to Republican National Committee members for comments that proposes a conservative litmus test of sorts. (1) Smaller government, ...

From DOMENICO MONTANARO, MSNBC,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Republican National Committee,  Ronald Reagan,  Barack Obama,  Olympia Snowe

Whining over whining

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's legislation to dub the day before Thanksgiving "Complaint-Free Wednesday" has flown largely under the radar. But as the L.A. Times reports this morning, the Missouri Democrat has heard lots of ...

From DOMENICO MONTANARO, MSNBC,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Emanuel Cleaver,  Barack Obama,  Sam Graves,  John Doe

HRC confident Iraq elections will happen

From NBC's Sue Kroll Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters today that the U.S. has every reason to believe that Iraq's election will happen although the date "might slip by some period of time". Iraq's Vice President vetoed a key part of ...

From DOMENICO MONTANARO, MSNBC,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  John Doe

The significance of Moore's retirement

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro Is the news of Kansas Rep. Dennis Moore's (D) retirement a finger pulled out of the dam of more retirements to come? That has to be a big fear of Democrats looking to stave off a massive loss of House seats next year. A ...

From DOMENICO MONTANARO, MSNBC,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  White House,  U.S. Republican Party,  Dennis Moore,  Barack Obama

Reid's 'Louisiana Purchase'?

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro There's been a lot of talk about the $300 million Medicaid "fix" that Louisian Sen. Mary Landrieu got for her home state just before voting in favor of cloture last night, thereby putting the Senate health bill on the ...

From DOMENICO MONTANARO, MSNBC,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mary Landrieu,  U.S. Republican Party,  Harry Reid,  MSNBC,  John Doe

Obama approval dips below 50% in Iowa

Normal 0 0 1 131 751 6 1 922 11.1282 0 0 0 From msnbc.com’s Carrie Dann Just shy of two years after Iowans propelled Barack Obama to victory in the first major test of the 2008 Democratic primary, the president’s approval rating in the first caucus ...

From DOMENICO MONTANARO, MSNBC,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  John Edwards,  Joe Biden,  U.S. Democratic Party

Reid: 'We can see the finish line'

After tonight’s vote to put a health reform bill on the floor of the U.S. Senate for the first time in American history, Senate Democrats vowed to pass it, but acknowledged that there would be changes. “We can see the finish line, but we’re not there ...

From DOMENICO MONTANARO, MSNBC,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Senate,  Harry Reid,  Mary Landrieu,  Chuck Schumer

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