Mountain Sage

JANUARY 23, 2009
Obama Intends to Lift Family-Planning ‘Gag Rule’
By LAURA MECKLER
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will issue an order restoring U.S. funding for international family-planning groups involved with abortion. But he chose not to do so on Thursday, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
President Obama was breaking with the tradition set by his recent predecessors [...]

I think there’s a whole lot of posturing going on.   The Republicans didn’t seem near as concerned how all those billions of dollars given to banks and other corporations were spent.
Obama Presses for Quick Jolt to the Economy
By JACKIE CALMES and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Published: January 23, 2009
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday stepped squarely into [...]

Ms. Gillibrand is somewhat of a controversial figure to some liberal Democrats due to her endorsement by the N.R.A.  Representative Carolyn McCarthy, from Long Island, has vowed to run against Gillibrand in 2010.
ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson has selected Representative Kirsten Gillibrand, a 42-year-old congresswoman from upstate who is known for bold political moves [...]