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President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of
surgeon general to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and
correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation. Gupta has told administration officials that he ...
So apparently Obama plans to appoint CNN's Sanjay
Gupta as Surgeon General. I don't have a problem
with Gupta's qualifications. But I do remember his mugging of Michael Moore over Sicko. You don't have to like Moore or his film; but Gupta specifically ...
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The Obama administration approached CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta
about becoming U.S. surgeon general.
SURGEON GENERAL GUPTA?.... I should concede at the
outset that I don't watch CNN often, but I've
caught Dr. Sanjay Gupta on occasion, and he strikes me as quite capable in discussing medical issues. With that in mind, Barack Obama...
The apparent selection of a health reporter for
the post of Surgeon General is an acknowledgement of
the fact that the office now serves a purely educational function, and not a terribly serious one at that. It would be nice if that meant that the ...
It doesn't get harsher than that. In a
floor speech today, Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on
the Senate Judiciary committee, suggested that Eric Holder, Barack Obama's nominee for Attorney General, might follow in the footsteps of ... ...
Republicans have made it clear that Attorney General-designate
Eric Holder is the most problematic of President-elect Barack
Obama cabinet nominees. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, gave a scathing floor ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the Senate
Rules Committee has parted with many of her Democratic
colleagues and says that the Senate should seat former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said Tuesday that ...
Link. Poll: What is the significance of the
Sanjay Gupta appointment? Obama has made a strong advance
in the project of merging politics and showbiz. Surgeon General has long been a showbiz slot, so nothing much has changed. ...
The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee,
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., this afternoon raised the level
of his rhetoric in questioning the "character" of President-elect Obama’s nominee to be Attorney General, Eric Holder. Specter ...
Former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris makes his
way to the Capitol on Tuesday.
Gupta is a former White House fellow. (CNN)
– Chief CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has
been approached by the Obama administration about the U.S. surgeon general's post, according to sources inside the transition and at CNN. The ...
's popularity has suffered a "clear hit" as
a result of her public campaign for Hillary Rodham
Clinton 's Senate seat, while Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's positive ratings have shot up, according to a new poll. According to Public Policy Polling, of ...
President-elect Barack Obama is getting a new ride
to go with his new address on Jan. 20.
General Motors Corp. recently delivered to the U.S. Secret Service a brand new presidential limousine, replacing the 2006 model Cadillac DTS presidential limousine that President George W. Bush has ...
TOKYO Toyota Motor will idle its plants
in Japan for 11 days in February and March
to reduce output in the face of steeply declining global vehicle sales, the company said Tuesday. The Japanese auto giant said the suspension would affect production ...
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Former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris makes his
way to the Capitol on Tuesday.
With Rahm Emanuel having resigned from Congress to
become Chief of Staff to President-elect Barack Obama, embattled
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has quickly set the special-election dat e for Emanuel's Chicago North Side seat. Embattled Illinois ...
or the past five years, the fight in
Afghanistan has been hobbled by strategic drift, conflicting tactics,
and too few troops. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, got it right when he bluntly told the U.S. Congress in 2007, ...
JACKSON, Ohio (AP) - Police say a 4-year-old
boy in southern Ohio shot his babysitter because the
sitter accidentally stepped on his foot. Police said 18-year-old Nathan Beavers and several other teenagers were babysitting several young children in a mobile home in Jackson on Sunday when ...
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- SHOCK POLL: Kennedy Trailing Cuomo Huge
- Burris arrives on the Hill
- Gupta To Be Obama's Surgeon General?
- Curling Just Like Smoke
- Obama Nominates Dawn Johnsen, the Anti-Yoo, as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counse
- Petraeus on Afghanistan
- From Liar to Genius: Harry Reid Flips On Gen. Petraeus (Video)
- Bailout Helps Bowl Game Sponsors
- OSG: About the Office of the Solicitor General
- TRANSITION TO JUSTICE.
- Kagan nominated for solicitor general
- President-elect Obama announces key Department of Justice posts
- Allegations of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse at the New U.S. Embassy in Iraq :: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform :: United States House of Representatives
- Office of the Solicitor General
- How the Senate can stop Blagojevich. - By Akhil Reed Amar and Josh Chafetz - Slate Magazine
- Obama Taps More Former Clinton Officials for Four Top DOJ Spots
- Obama names first woman solicitor general.
- Griffin Bell, Carter's attorney general, dies
- Kempthorne spent $235,000 in taxpayer money to renovate his bathroom.
- Israel's Gaza strategy











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