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Posts tagged with 'resign'

  • ¡Adios, Tancredo!

    POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, DECEMBER 20 2007 09:03 AM | PERMALINK

    His hardline immigration stance wasn't enough to carry him through the primary season, and so republican Rep. Tom Tancredo is expected to pull out of the race later today.  The five-term Colorado congressman is expected to make his announcement at a gathering in Iowa, where he is last in the parade to the GOP bid.

     

    Otherwise less than newsworthy, Tancredo has drawn criticism for his advertising choices, particularly a T.V. commercial in which he shows a shadowy figure in a hooded...

  • TPMtv: Larry Craig, Still Kickin'

    POSTED BY BEN CRAW, SEPTEMBER 05 2007 02:44 PM | PERMALINK

    Larry Craig, Still Kickin'

    We thought it was all over when Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) announced his resignation Saturday following the eruption of his airport bathroom sex scandal. But stop right there - was it a resignation, or just the statement of an intent to resign? Now Senator Craig is saying he might not resign after all. What's really going on here behind the scenes? It just so happens that thanks to a couple bizarre twists, we're privy to the backroom details.

  • No One Likes the White House Anymore

    POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, AUGUST 31 2007 02:00 PM | PERMALINK

     

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, who is battling cancer, will step down in two weeks and be replaced by his deputy, Dana Perino, President Bush said on Friday.

    "It's been a joy to watch him spar with you," Bush told reporters. "He's smart, he's capable, he's witty, he's ... able to talk about issues in a way the American people understand."

    Snow, 52, a former Fox News commentator who was hired last year, announced in March that he had suffered a recurrence of colon...