-Among the many matters the Obama administration is working on there is the massive economic stimulus proposal. On Friday the U.S. Senate Democrats unveiled their version of a stimulus that, like its counterpart in the House of Representatives, would provide emergency spending and tax cuts totaling $825 billion. Read the rest of this entry »

After all that was written for and against the possibility of Caroline Kennedy becoming the next US senator for New York, the post just left vacant by Hillary Clinton, we can forget about it. It appears that Ms Kennedy has taken herself out of the race. Yesterday there were contradictory press reports about her candidacy, one moment she was in the next she was out. Read the rest of this entry »

On December 1, 2008, Hillary Clinton was nominated to be Secretary of State in the Obama administration. If she gets confirmed her seat in the US Senate as a junior senator for New York will have to be filled by someone nominated by the New York governor, David Paterson. Read the rest of this entry »

After the euphoria comes generally a reality check. And that is what the democrats in the US are going through after the scandals, maneuvering and corruption that is going on in three states which are trying to replace the three senators ‘lost’ to the new administration of president-elect Barack Obama. Read the rest of this entry »

Didn’t John McCain said in one of his meetings that Obama was already measuring the drapes for the oval office? Or something like that. Well, maybe that is not too realistic. But what is going on among some journalists and not only in the US is the guess game about who would be in an Obama’s administration. Read the rest of this entry »