Presidential Campaigns

Romney charged that Obama and the Democrats get millions from union bosses and "that’s where they pay their obedience.”

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The former Bush adviser took aim at Cain, saying his "misstatements" sent the message he was unprepared to run.

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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said he continues to be impressed with Mitt Romney’s debate performances, but stopped short of an official endorsement of the Republican candidate.
 
“He’s cool, calm, collected. He’s quick, he’s agile. I think he could do well going up against Obama in the fall if he gets the nomination,” Bush told Piers Morgan on his CNN program in an episode that will air tonight.
 
“He’s very consistent and very disciplined, and all of the things you would want in a candidate,” said Bush.
 
But when asked if he was prepared to follow New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) with an official endorsement of Romney, Bush declined, for now.
 
“I don’t have as much weight behind me as Chris Christie, but I’m getting up there,” he said. “I don’t know. I’m going to wait. There’s no urgency to this. I want a nominee that will win with purpose, that will win dealing with the long-term structural challenges that we face and with ideas to be able to deal with those things. And also someone who can be effective against the incumbent president.”

The GOP presidential contender called the emerging debate over fellow candidate Mitt Romney's faith "inconsequential" to the race.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has no chance of securing the GOP presidential nomination, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said on Friday, just one day before she won the Ames Straw Poll.

"She doesn't stand a chance to win the Republican nomination," Reid said.

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President Obama has announced his campaign for a second term in a video message to supporters.

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Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Anchorage, Alaska, to speak Wednesday at the funeral of former Sen. Ted Stevens. 

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out over the weekend in the wake of Obama signing congressional sanctions into law.

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The Las Vegas Review-Journal is all riled up this weekend after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) reportedly told the newspaper's director of advertising, "I hope you go out of business."

And later, in a speech delivered to the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, Reid also insinuated that he would rather the Review-Journal sell ads because the Las Vegas Sun, another newspaper, is delivered inside of it, the Review-Journal reported.

Of course, this hardly sat well with the newspaper's reporters and editors, who quickly took to the Web to excoriate Reid for his remarks. Said Sherman Frederick, the Review-Journal's publisher:

"Such behavior cannot go unchallenged.

You could call Reid's remark ugly and be right. It certainly was boorish. Asinine? That goes without saying.

But to fully capture the magnitude of Reid's remark (and to stop him from doing the same thing to others) it must be called what it was -- a full-on threat perpetrated by a bully who has forgotten that he was elected to office to protect Nevadans, not sound like he's shaking them down.

No citizen should expect this kind of behavior from a U.S. senator. It is certainly not becoming of a man who is the majority leader in the U.S. Senate. And it absolutely is not what anyone would expect from a man who now asks Nevadans to send him back to the Senate for a fifth term.

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So today, we serve notice on Sen. Reid that this creepy tactic will not be tolerated."

Reid's relationship with the Review-Journal has always been a bit bumpy, but this exchange -- especially at a time when Reid's poll numbers are unimpressive -- could soon prove especially troublesome for the Senate Majority Leader.

Countless spectators packed Constitution Avenue and Capitol Hill this evening to greet the motorcade carrying the casket of the late-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and his family.

The motorcade, despite arriving nearly two hours later than expected, met the sustained applause of aides and lawmakers, many of whom had previously worked with Kennedy and knew him personally.

"Here we are to briefly pray with you, offer our sympathy, and to thank you," said Daniel Coughlin, the House Chaplin, to Kennedy's family. "Thank you for sharing the senator and so much of his life with us."

Following a solo rendition of "America the Beautiful," Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-Mass.) stepped to the microphone to thank those in attendance for their support.

"He couldn't have done it without all of the people he worked with. He knew the value of good staff and that's why he was so successful," he said. "I hope ... the many hours you put into legislating and policy making gives you some sense of satisfaction... because that's the legacy he'd want you to feel good about. Thank you on behalf of my family for being here."

As the crowd erupted into its own rendition of "God Bless America" and "America the Beautiful," the motorcade departed for Arlington National Cemetery, where Kennedy will be buried during a private ceremony. Onlookers shouted "thank you" to the hearse as it passed them.