Longtime Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D) of Dallas, Texas, 74, was targeted for ethics violations in a major exposé in yesterday's Dallas Morning News.

Rep. Johnson, a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, now chairs the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

Sources are reporting to LPAC that, during the Obama family's Martha's Vineyard vacation (their seventh of the year, by some counts), the President was visited by a number of prominent Democratic Party fundraisers and insiders, all panicked over the prospects of a total electoral wipeout in November.

Sources close to the Obama Administration have confirmed widespread anger and frustration at President Obama's latest diplomatic blunders, on the part of top State Department and Pentagon officials. On the eve of the Sept.

President NerObama used the occasion of his Saturday radio address to practically declare the end of the war in Iraq and to brag about what his administration is doing for U.S. veterans of that war. As with everything else he does, however, Obama's statements are contradicted by reality. In Iraq, 49,000 U.S.

On Thursday, Federal Judge James Zagel said he would set a retrial date for former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich during the first week of January 2011. The trial wouldn't begin any earlier than Jan. 4, Judge Zagel said, but he didn't set a specific date. Prosecutors had asked for an earlier date, but the judge said he wanted to avoid scheduling conflicts over the holidays.

On Tuesday, Shirley Sherrod, who had been sacked by the Obama White House in response to a doctored videotape of a speech she gave as Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development program in Georgia, met with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for 90 minutes, after which she rejected the new job offered to her in compensation for her firing by Obama without due process.