COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) – After nearly four hours of deliberation and multiple rounds of balloting, the South Carolina Republican Party voted Monday night to censure Mark Sanford for secretly traveling overseas to visit his mistress — but stopped short of calling on the governor to resign.
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American University has joined two other D.C. universities by offering free or reduced tuition to post-9/11 military veterans as part of a program run by the Department of Veteran Affairs.
The nation’s largest insurers, hospitals and medical groups have hired more than 350 former government staff members and retired members of Congress in hopes of influencing their old bosses and colleagues, according to an analysis of lobbying disclosures and other records.
Karl Rove who successfully guided President Bush to the White House twice, was remarkably cold on Sarah Palin’s decision to resign as governor of Alaska during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. The former Bush strategist and current Republican commentator argued that it was “not clear” what Palin’s strategy was in resigning just two-and-a-half years into office, adding that the move was risky,m left her vulnerable to her critics, and would damage her chances of becoming president.
Could Sarah Palin rescind her intent to resign? My friend and colleague, Josh Marshall, raises that intriguing possibility here. He notes that Larry Craig indicated that he intended to resign his office and then never did. (The arrested Idaho Republican did decline to run for reelection in 2008.) Could Palin, facing a bewildering array of criticism, decide at the last minute that she wants to stick around? It’s unlikely, as Josh acknowledges, but it’s no more erratic than Ross Perot who dropped out of the 1992 presidential race only to reenter it later. And it’s no odder than the behavior of Marc Sanford in South Carolina.
Could the California Governor’s race already be slipping through Democrats’ fingers? For more than a year, everyone thought U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein would win the Democratic gubernatorial primary and easily claim the general election. But Feinstein, who turned 76 last week, hasn’t made the slightest discernable move toward launching a campaign.
