The Corner (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Do you get the sense that the Washington political world has declared the Bill Richardson story over and done with -- in the course of less than a full daily news cycle -- so that it can get on with the more exciting business of Barack Obama arriving the nation's capital? George Stephanopoulos described Richardson's withdrawal as Commerce Secretary nominee as a "hiccup" that is "likely...
ChooseTheHero.com (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - The Review Sunday, January 4, 2009 PREFACE: Opening ABC’s This Week, Israeli President Shimon Peres asserted that Israel had no desire to crush Hamas or occupy Gaza; rather, they wanted to eliminate terror. Next up for host George Stephanopoulos was Dick Durbin, who appeared to indicate that he would be willing to seat [...]
The Note (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Day -- creating the vacancy that is has caused so much controversy in Illinois and beyond. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Biden last month on “This Week” why he hadn’t resigned from the Senate -- and part of the answer Biden gave was, at best, misleading. “Two reasons,” Biden said. “One is that, from my perspective, I shouldn't acknowledge it, but being sworn in for the seventh...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... What good does it do if Israel appears to act like its enemies? But then I heard Shimon Peres tell George Stephanopoulos that Hamas "did things which are unprecedented in the history even of terror. They made mosques into headquarters. They put bombs in the kindergartens, in their own homes. They are hiding in hospitals." Where were all the people of Gaza rising up in outrage when...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday
ABC anchor Dan Harris led Sunday night's World News with Commerce-nominee Bill Richardson's unexpected withdrawal, but framed the story around worries over Richardson becoming a “distraction” from Barack Obama's agenda. George Stephanopoulos, however, assured him it will only “be a blip.” Harris recited how “Obama is facing trouble abroad, trouble at home, and now trouble in his own...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said Sunday his opposition to Roland Burris being named to President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat has nothing to do with race. In an interview on ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos, the Illinois Democrat said the problem is the state's governor, Rod Blagojevich, not Burris's race. Burris, a former Illinois attorney general,...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said Sunday his opposition to Roland Burris being named to President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat has nothing to do with race.In an interview on ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos, the Illinois Democrat said the problem is the state's governor, Rod Blagojevich, not Burris's race. Burris, a former Illinois attorney general, is black and Obama was the U.S....
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Israeli ground invasion of Gaza is giving Hamas a real and serious lesson, President Shimon Peres said Sunday on U.S. television.In an interview on ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Peres was asked whether Israel's goal is a negotiated peace or the removal of Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by the United States.We don't intend either to occupy Gaza nor to crush...
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | yesterday
... President-elect Barack Obama, a leading Democrat is not letting up in his criticism of President George W. Bush.His son hasn’t left the White House yet, but former president George H. W. Bush is already thinking about the next Bush who might one day move in.A state election board on Monday will announce Democrat Al Franken has defeated Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota's...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- The Israeli ground invasion of Gaza is giving Hamas a real and serious lesson, President Shimon Peres said Sunday on U.S. television. In an interview on ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Peres was asked whether Israel's goal is a negotiated peace or the removal of Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by the United States. We don't intend either...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
Kentucky U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate GOP leader, is scheduled to appear today on ABC News "This Week," a public affairs show hosted by George Stephanopoulos.
George's Bottom Line (Free subscription) | yesterday
... able to come in with a easy-to-confirm replacement for Gov. Richardson in the next week or so. --George Stephanopoulos http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/433071/37881414Of course they knew but they probably didn't think it was as big of a deal as it potentially could be.I find it interesting that it was Richardson who pulled his name rather than the Obama team who asked Richardson...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
ISRAEL INTENDS 'A REAL AND SERIOUS LESSON'.... Those waiting for a ceasefire in Gaza are likely to be waiting for quite a while. ABC News' George Stephanopoulos spoke to Israeli President Shimon Peres and said his government planned to ignore...
Drunk at idrunk.com (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
Download | Play Download | Play Thanks to Heaar for a vid clip One of a key parts of Israel’s well-planned media narrative in Gaza is that ay are carefully targeting attacks & that are is no humanitarian crisis are which isn’t attributable to a mis-management of a elected Hamas government. President Shimon Peres repeated a claim this Sunday on ABC News “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”....
S E N A T U S (Free subscription) | yesterday
... in the coming weeks. Politico reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” that perhaps the money for states should be a loan rather than a grant because it would “make them spend it more wisely.” But Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) told Stephanopoulos that an aggressive stimulus is still essential:...
