Daily Archive for January 7th, 2013

: January 7th, 2013

Grab your flag: Gun Appreciation Day is coming

By on January 7, 2013 at 8:39 PM
Mark your calendar. On Jan. 19, two days before President Obama is inaugurated and a day before Sen. Dianne Feinstein is expected to introduce an assault weapons ban, a Gun Appreciation Day has been called in the U.S. Organizers are asking folks to go into their local gun shop and wave a flag or a […] …

So will Obama appoint any women to his second term Cabinet?

By on January 7, 2013 at 8:01 PM
Word is leaking that Jack Lew — currently President Obama’s Chief of Staff — is going to get the Treasury Secretary nod, a development that’s been rumored for weeks. So let’s pause and review how Obama’s second term Cabinet is shaping up. There’s Sen. John Kerry at State, ex-Sen. Chuck Hagel at Defense, John Brennan […] …

Poll: Americans tell GOP leaders to take a hike off the fiscal cliff

By on January 7, 2013 at 4:35 PM
It’s worse than Republicans thought. The first national poll conducted after the fiscal cliff deal finds that Americans overwhelmingly believe President Obama won the game of political chicken along the ledge of the “fiscal cliff.” Then there’s the bad news for the GOP. Just 19 percent of Americans approve of the way Republicans handled the […] …

San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro — “the next Obama?” — a hot ticket in San Francisco (VIDEO)

By on January 7, 2013 at 2:44 PM
He’s been called the “Latino messiah,” and “the next Obama” — and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, at 38, hasn’t even been elected to a statewide or federal office yet. But if his hot-hot appearance Monday in San Francisco at the Commonwealth Club of California is any indication, he may be one to watch. Castro, […] …

LGBT groups fight over Chuck Hagel nomination

By on January 7, 2013 at 1:34 PM
Log Cabin Republicans, a gay group, is running expensive full-page ads in the Washington Post and New York Times opposing Obama’s nomination former Nebraska GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense to replace Californian Leon Panetta. Log Cabin cites a 1998 Hagel statement opposing Clinton-nominated Luxembourg ambassador James Hormel as “openly, aggressively, gay,” Hagel’s […] …

The List: Republican Cabinet members in Democratic administrations

By on January 7, 2013 at 1:17 PM
If Chuck Hagel is confirmed as Secretary of Defense — and that’s a big IF — he’ll join a short list of prominent Republicans who agreed to join the president’s Cabinet in a Democratic administration. Here’s a sampling of some previous Republican Cabinet officials over the past century: Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior (1933-1946) […] …