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RNC Taps Rick Santorum to Respond to Obama

Here’s a little fuel to the rumors that former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is looking at a return to politics, including a possible 2012 run for president. The Republican National Committee has picked Santorum to give a teleconference “pre-buttal” to President Obama’s address to the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh.


McCaskill May Be On To Something Big

When Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) Friday called Wall Street executives “idiots” for using taxpayer money to pay out $18 billion in bonuses, then proposed that compensation for the employees of all bailout recipients be capped at $400,000 per year, it surely seemed to many Americans like an obvious limit to place on the Wall Street [...]