Democrat Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy has been hospitalized after complaining that he felt ill. Since May, Kennedy has been undergoing treatment for a brain tumor. His condition or the reason surrounding the hospital stay are unknown.
UPDATE: Local news in Boston is reporting that Kennedy was hospitalized after suffering a “minor seizure.”
UPDATE: AP reports Kennedy has returned home. Aides say the seizure was due to a change in medicine.
Just announced on Fox News. McCain will travel to Mississippi this afternoon to attend tonight’s debate, then return to Washington DC afterward.
McCain statement:
Senator McCain has spent the morning talking to members of the Administration, members of the Senate, and members of the House. He is optimistic that there has been significant progress toward a bipartisan agreement now that there is a framework for all parties to be represented in negotiations, including Representative Blunt as a designated negotiator for House Republicans. The McCain campaign is resuming all activities and the Senator will travel to the debate this afternoon. Following the debate, he will return to Washington to ensure that all voices and interests are represented in the final agreement, especially those of taxpayers and homeowners.
UPDATE: Obama flees Washington en route to debate.
UPDATE II: Exclusive video from inside the Obama campaign as McCain announced he will debate.
With the future of our financial institutions in peril, Barack Obama did what any responsible leader would do: Hit the gym. “Call me if you need me” alert. “Hit me up on my cell, financial dudes, I’m never further away than the closest Elliptical.
Obama, headphones, baseball hat, hitting the gym. Spotted working out this a.m. at the Washington Sports Club, near Adams Morgan/Kalorama, from 7:30a – 8:20a.
Wouldn’t want to suspend that spinning class commitment and take a bunch of grief from David Letterman.
One of the reasons negotiations over the $700 billion rescue plan fell apart at the White House last night was the Democrats attempt to stuff a poison pill into the legislation: 20% of the potential profits from any deal being funneled to left-wing groups like ACORN.
Senator Lindsey Graham (to Greta Van Susteren): Twenty percent of the money that should go to retire debt that will be created to solve this problem winds up in a housing organization called ACORN that is an absolute ill-run enterprise, and I can’t believe we would take money away from debt retirement to put it in a housing program that doesn’t work.
ACORN, by the way, stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. You may be familiar with them for the frequent accusations that they commit voter fraud, registering dead people to get Democrats elected.
Uh, oh. Looks like those television stations need a little organizin’, and I know just the community organizer to do it. Wiping with the First Amendment trying to assure you’ll get the chance to wipe with the Second Amendment: That’s change we can believe in.
On the heels of threatening the tax-exempt status of a group against Iran getting nukes and shutting down the phone lines and email boxes of radio stations who dare to air information about Obama unapproved by his campaign, Barack Obama has returned to his old standby method of suppressing opposing viewpoints: Threatening the licenses of television stations that air commercials critical of the self-appointed Obamessiah.
This time he’s using the method against ads being run by the National Rifle Association that point out his horrible record on Second Amendment rights. I’m sure the request of a criminal investigation by the DOJ isn’t far behind.
You can take the agitator out of Chicago, but you can’t take Chicago out of the agitator. Just like “Country First” wasn’t just a campaign slogan for McCain, it seems like “Get in their faces” was not a mere slogan for Barack Obama.
Says team McCain:
Despite today’s news reports, there never existed a “deal,” but merely a proposal offered by a small, select group of Members of Congress. As of right now, there exists only a series of principles, including greater oversight and measures to address CEO pay. However, these principles do not enjoy a consensus in Congress.
At today’s cabinet meeting, John McCain did not attack any proposal or endorse any plan. John McCain simply urged that for any proposal to enjoy the confidence of the American people, stressing that all sides would have to cooperate and build a bipartisan consensus for a solution that protects taxpayers.
However, the Democrats allowed Senator Obama to run their side of the meeting. That did not work as the meeting quickly devolved into a contentious shouting match that did not seek to craft a bipartisan solution.
Yup. That’s the guy I want at the negotiating table with the world’s most vicious dictators. Good ol’ Barry, building bridges and getting things done.
Market analyst Andy Kessler’s article in the Wall Street Journal indicates the $700 billion US Government investment in the financial market rescue plan could yield as much as $2.2 trillion in returns due to the undervaluation of the assets in which the plan would invest.
Red State is reporting that Democrat Senate leader Harry Reid is attempting to sneak an offshore shale oil drilling ban past distracted voters and Senators.
Harry Reid (D-NV) thinking the public and Senate are both distracted by the Paulson plan to bailout Wall Street intends to continue the ban on oil shale drilling.
He is doing it right now.
Call your Senator right now at (202)224-3121 and tell him to tell Harry Reid not to put the drilling ban back in the continuing resolution.
Section 1602 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2008 needs to get tossed.
Arlen Specter: 202-224-4254
Bob Casey Jr.: (202) 224-6324 OR (866) 802-2833
The Democrat Illinois Attorney General is investigating a $100,000 earmark grant Barack Obama awarded to a former campaign volunteer for a botanical garden that never got built.
[S]tate records obtained by the [Chicago] Sun-Times show $65,000 of the grant money went to the wife of Kenny B. Smith, the Obama 2000 congressional campaign volunteer who heads the Chicago Better Housing Association, which was in charge of the project for the blighted South Side neighborhood.
Smith wrote another $20,000 in grant-related checks to K.D. Contractors, a construction company that his wife, Karen D. Smith, created five months after work on the garden was supposed to have begun, records show. K.D. is no longer in business.
Music legend Paul McCartney has assembled a high-powered security team at a reported cost of $2.8 million to protect himself against threats by Muslim extremists during a concert tonight celebrating the 60th anniversary of Tel Aviv.
Sir Paul, 66, has recruited the team, which includes police, officers from Britain’s MI6 and agents from Israel’s elite Mossad intelligence organisation, in the wake of death threats from Islamic extremists.
About 40,000 fans are expected to watch the ex-Beatle when he plays in Tel Aviv park this evening in honour of Israel’s 60th anniversary.
However, Sir Paul has come under pressure from Arab campaigners to cancel the one-off gig over Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and there have been reports of death threats from Islamic fanatics.
