Archive: February 3, 2008 - February 9, 2008
Roger Clemens, To Be Or Not to B12
Roger Clemens still has a thing for vitamin B12. The legendary (and embattled) pitcher loaded up on B12 -- in the form of a big beef sandwich -- the night before his first day of meetings this week with members of Congress who are investigating drug use in Major League Baseball. On Tuesday night, Clemens and his legal and public relations team headed to the...
By Mary Ann Akers | February 8, 2008; 5:03 PM ET | Comments (14)
Harry Reid, Living in Orwell's 1984
He may officially be the Senate majority leader, but Harry Reid (D-Nev.) feels like a powerless rebel trapped in Big Brother's totalitarian world. At least that's the way he portrays himself this week. And in Reid's dark world, Big Brother, the supreme ruler of George Orwell's novel "1984," is President Bush. "The Bush administration is Orwellian. Orwellian," Reid ranted on the Senate floor Tuesday, accusing...
By Mary Ann Akers | February 6, 2008; 7:00 PM ET | Comments (78)
Rep. Lowey Votes From Her Hospital Bed
Super Tuesday turned out to be the most heart-racing presidential primary of Rep. Nita Lowey's (D-N.Y.) career. But even a "minor coronary incident," as her office describes it, didn't prevent the congresswoman from casting a vote for her gal Hillary Rodham Clinton. Lowey, 70, was released this morning from a Manhattan hospital where she was treated after collapsing at a rally for Clinton in White...
By Eric Pianin | February 6, 2008; 4:47 PM ET | Comments (3)
Pelosi Skips Calif. Primary to Work the NASCAR Vote
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has remained neutral in the Democratic presidential primary. So much so that instead of spending Super Tuesday getting out the vote in her state's crucial primary contest or capitalizing off all the press attention -- she stayed in Washington to schmooze with a NASCAR driver. Pelosi, who voted on an absentee ballot last week (for whom, we know not), hosted...
By Mary Ann Akers | February 5, 2008; 5:08 PM ET | Comments (195)
A Clue to How Hillary Clinton Found Her Voice
After her big upset in New Hampshire last month, Hillary Rodham Clinton famously declared, "I found my own voice." What she also found was her own voice coach. According to Clinton campaign's latest federal campaign disclosure report, the Democratic presidential candidate paid $7,500 to voice and drama coach extraordinaire Michael Sheehan in October. Sheehan, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama who once was...
By Mary Ann Akers | February 4, 2008; 5:38 PM ET | Comments (66)
