https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/ en-us Copyright 2006 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:18:10 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Only last week, Vice-President Dick Cheney said he and Mr Bush were not up for election - it would be full speed ahead in Iraq, irrespective of the result of the mid-term polls. That full-speed-ahead policy has hit a wall.... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/11/bush_no_room_to_hide_1.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/11/bush_no_room_to_hide_1.html Justin Webb Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:18:10 +0000 The bleak fact for the White House is that the Democrats' taking control of the House of Representatives gives them the chairmanship of every committee - the power to hold hearings, the power to instigate legislation - a platform in... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/11/a_platform_for_the_democrats.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/11/a_platform_for_the_democrats.html Justin Webb Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:40:38 +0000 The voters of South Dakota appear to have rejected a state law banning almost all abortions, even in case of rape or incest. I wonder whether this might turn out to be a big blow to abortion-rights campaigners. My logic... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/11/to_be_continued.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/11/to_be_continued.html Justin Webb Wed, 08 Nov 2006 06:19:33 +0000 Are the Republicans making the same mistake the Democrats did in 2000? I know plenty of Republican candidates do not want to be seen with the president, and the Democrats have been having fun using the Bush visage in their... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/time_to_use_the_big_guy_1.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/time_to_use_the_big_guy_1.html Justin Webb Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:16:01 +0000 You join me in the King of Prussia Mall in the suburbs of Philadelphia, where I have just spent an hour outside Lilly Pulitzer looking for Republicans. My producer is rather impressed, I think, that I am able to find... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/republicans_on_the_run_1.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/republicans_on_the_run_1.html Justin Webb Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:56:38 +0000 A visit to Philadelphia to witness the bare-knuckle fight to keep one of the best known social conservatives in the Senate. Rick Santorum is in trouble and has the slightly haunted look of a man who doesn’t quite know where... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/post_1.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/post_1.html Justin Webb Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:55:09 +0000 I have not seen this list - full disclosure here on the lack of first-hand reporting - but a couple of Republican politicos I have talked to have mentioned an internal document which suggests that the Republican party has now... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/giving_up_1.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/giving_up_1.html Justin Webb Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:33:43 +0000 There is something healing about America. A trip to the chilly city of Minneapolis reminds me of this. I am here to interview the man who will almost certainly be the country's first Muslim congressman, but before seeing him I... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/post.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/post.html Justin Webb Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:50:44 +0000 Sorry to go back to sex but my attention is caught by the website of the Republican congressman Mark Kirk. Under the heading Children Should be Safe In Congress (any takers for the idea that they shouldn't?) Mark writes: "I... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/unnatural_justice.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/unnatural_justice.html Justin Webb Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:32:46 +0000 Newt Gingrich is a busy man - I wonder why? The guy who led the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in 1994 and then lost the plot bigtime, is back. I know this because I went to see... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/return_of_the_newt.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/return_of_the_newt.html Justin Webb Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:11:02 +0000 This sex stuff is a trap for the Democrats: the case against the Republicans looks so bad, so utterly unanswerable, that the pressure is on the Democrats to win big in the elections on 7th November. If they fail to... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/prophetic_words.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/prophetic_words.html Justin Webb Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:32:17 +0000 Over lunch in Bullfeathers - a Capitol Hill favourite of impecunious interns and parsimonious correspondents - a fine chap who covers Congress for one of America's greatest newspapers told me the other day what these elections mean to him: misery.... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/the_barmy_army.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/the_barmy_army.html Justin Webb Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:23:58 +0000 I'm BBC radio’s chief Washington correspondent, and also a television anchor (currently to be seen in the US on the evening BBC World News on PBS stations). Before arriving in Washington I spent three years as the BBC’s Europe correspondent,... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/about_justin_webb.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/justin_webb/2006/10/about_justin_webb.html Justin Webb Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:15:00 +0000