Daily Political Wire

George Wenschhof

Cease-Fire in Gaza Imminent, Clinton Dispatched to Region - reports indicate a cease fire between Hamas and Israel will be announced within the next several hours.  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is enroute to the region with scheduled meetings with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian leaders and Egyptian officials.  The NY Times has more here.

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West Concedes to Murphy in Florida - finally, after a recount showed him losing by an even larger number of votes, Republican Representative Allen West conceded to Democrat Patrick Murphy.  Allen was another of the whacked out Republicans in Congress who once claimed, without any substantiation, there were 78 to 81 Democrats in Congress who were Communists.  You can read more here.

With the victory by Murphy and several uncalled races tilting toward Democrats, it appears democrats will have a gain of 8 seats in the House, short of the 25 needed to regain a majority.  The split for the incoming House will be Democrats 201, Republicans 234.

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Attorney General Eric Holder Likely to Stay One More Year - reports indicate President Obama has asked Holderto stay for another year in the midst of the upheavel cuased by the resignation of General David Petraeus.  You can read more here.

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When Will Clinton Step Down? - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may well have made her last overseas trip with President Obama as they visited sotheast Asia counties.  As Clinton flies to the Middle East to help diffuse the current violence between Hamas and Israel and furor continues by Republicans over what happened in Benghazi and their opposition to an appointment of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to Secretary of State, the looming question is when will Hillary step down?  You can read more here.

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