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Obama pays tribute, offers comfort to Fort Hood

which left 13 dead and dozens wounded, painful and incomprehensible — the more so because it occurred on an Army post, the nation's largest. — who spoke at the ceremony Tuesday outside the III Corps Headquarters, which was ringed by a ...

From TODD J. GILLMAN, Denver Post,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Michelle Obama,  Barack Obama,  Nidal Malik Hasan,  George Casey

Former president Bush, Obama extol volunteerism, public service

stage. He lauded Obama for embracing a vision of public service similar to his own, setting an example by performing volunteer service on the eve of his inauguration, and following through at the policy level. COLLEGE STATION, Texas — President Barack ...

From TODD J. GILLMAN, TwinCities.com,  17 Oct 2009
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  Bill Clinton,  White House

Governors in glass mansions shouldn't throw ACORNS, Hutchison says

The Hutchison campaign is circulating this photo, which appeared last October on the liberal Huffington Post as part of a story tying Sen. John McCain and other prominent Republican leaders to ACORN, a group that Republicans were trying hard to ...

From TODD J. GILLMAN, The Dallas Morning News Sports Blogs,  15 Sep 2009
Related Topics: John McCain

Hutchison insinuates that Perry is a bully

How's this for loaded language. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is insinuating that Gov. Rick Perry is a bully. It's not the first time she's used that term, either, suggesting that it has been poll tested or focus-grouped. There are double standards when ...

From TODD J. GILLMAN, The Dallas Morning News Sports Blogs,  15 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Kay Bailey Hutchison,  Rick Perry,  U.S. Republican Party

Name calling and taunts from Perry on Hutchison's missed ACORN vote

More from the Perry campaign on Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's missed vote last night. The governor's spokesman, Mark Miner, is taunting her for attending a fund-raiser in Dallas rather than tending to Senate business - in this case, the vote to cut off ...

From TODD J. GILLMAN, The Dallas Morning News Sports Blogs,  15 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Kay Bailey Hutchison

On PBS, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson bemoans incivility in politics

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson was on PBS' NewsHour last night, on a segment about discord and partisanship. They're pretty bad, in her judgment. "It's the worst that I've experienced, and I'm in my 17th year here," she said. The Dallas Democrat, a ...

From TODD J. GILLMAN, The Dallas Morning News Sports Blogs,  14 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Eddie Bernice Johnson,  PBS,  White House,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party

Pacesetters: Bill White and John Sharp fund-raising tops most Senate candidates nationwide

Technically, there isn't a U.S. Senate race yet in Texas. But take this to the bank: that hypothetical contest will be a doozy. One of the costliest anywhere. Exhibit 1: The FEC's latest analysis of candidate fund-raising, released this afternoon. Two ...

From TODD J. GILLMAN, The Dallas Morning News Sports Blogs,  14 Sep 2009
Related Topics: John Sharp,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Harry Reid,  U.S. Republican Party

Sen. John Cornyn denounces "ideological fixation" in Meet the Press health care debate

Texas Sen. John Cornyn argued this morning on NBC's "Meet the Press" against an "ideological fixation on the public option" - the boogeyman in the health care debate. Even if it were a good idea to let the federal government provide health care in ...

From TODD J. GILLMAN, The Dallas Morning News Sports Blogs,  13 Sep 2009
Related Topics: John Cornyn,  U.S. Republican Party,  Joe Wilson (politician),  U.S. Democratic Party,  Newt Gingrich

Sen. John Cornyn, in GOP radio address, hits Obamacare

Full transcript of Senator Cornyn's address, as provided by his office: "Eight years ago, the American people experienced the worst terrorist attacks in our history. On September 11, 2001, thousands of innocent people lost their lives in the fields of ...

From TODD J. GILLMAN, The Dallas Morning News Sports Blogs,  11 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  The Pentagon,  Al-Qaeda,  U.S. Democratic Party

Big weekend for Sen. John Cornyn

Sen. John Cornyn will deliver the Republicans' weekly radio address tomorrow. And on Sunday, he's been booked as a guest on NBC's "Meet the Press." Cornyn, poised to become Texas' senior senator (whenever Kay Bailey Hutchison resigns), is a member of ...

From TODD J. GILLMAN, The Dallas Morning News Sports Blogs,  11 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  John Cornyn,  Kay Bailey Hutchison,  Harry Reid,  Tom Daschle

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