CitizenJane Politics

Hello our beloved Janes! As you’ve certainly noticed, the ladies at CJP have been a little tied up lately. Both Patricia and Nisha have gone and gotten j-o-b-s, just a little sumpin’ sumpin’ to pay the bills...

Happy Friday, Janes! We hope you are enjoying the approach of summer, wherever you are. Today, we’ve got the roundup on all the news you need to know from this week - and what a week it was...

Happy Monday, Janes! It’s time for a Sunday Show Scorecard! Things are a little sporadic around here but we want to keep our favorite Sunday shows on their toes so we’re checking in on them. This was a bad week for Janes on the Sunday Show Scorecard...

Good afternoon, Janes! We hope you are enjoying the lovely weather, whatever part of the country you’re in. And we’re sorry for the delay on this post, CJP has had a busy morning, but we have plenty in store for this week...

Good morning, Janes! It’s Monday, April 27th, day 98 of the Obama administration, and day 36 of Candy Spelling’s book tour for “Stories from Candyland.” Here’s what’s happening in Washington, on CJP, and around the world...

Happy Friday, Janes! As promised, here is your wrap of all the news this week to make you the smartest Janes around… The CIA released classified memos from the Bush administration discussing tactics used on detainees...

Happy Hump Day, Janes! We’re a little late with the Sunday Show Scorecard this week but we got a little distracted by the giant bunny hanging around Sunday morning. This is where we let you know how our favorite Sunday shows scored in the Jane count. Let’s get to it...

Good morning, Janes! It’s Monday, April 13th and the second week of Congress’ Easter Recess. CJP would sign up for recess if it didn’t look so much like work. Check out Sen. Chuck Grassley’s and Sen. Claire McKaskill’s recess Twitter feeds HERE and HERE to see what we mean...

Good morning Janes! As our loyal readers have noticed, CJP has been a bit dormant recently. We write today to tell you where we’ve been and to tell you about some changes coming to CJP. First, we apologize for taking off without telling you we’d be away...

Even though this weekend marked the start of spring (and we have a serious case of Spring Fever!), we spent Sunday inside watching our favorite shows. It’s time to see who our winners and losers were this week on our Sunday Show Scorecard...

Good morning Janes! What do Lauren Conrad and Harley Davidson have in common...

The CEO of AIG has not testified yet, but considering the way the hearing is heading, the chances of AIG getting another bailout any time soon are becoming clear… “We’ve got a whole bunch of people lined up that want another bailout. Forget it, as far as I’m concerned, forget it...

Who says the Republicans don’t have a plan to create jobs?? They’re doing it themselves. If you’re unemployed and right of center, the RNC wants you. Just click HERE to submit an online application to join Michael Steele’s rebuilding dream team...

Most Americans know David Axelrod is President Obama’s right-hand man, but few know that his wife, Susan (at left with daughter Lauren), founded and is now the president of CURE, a non-profit organization focused on finding a cure for epilepsy...

Good morning, Janes! As you struggled to wake up this morning with an hour less sleep than you thought you had coming, did you also know that Daylight Savings Time used to begin in April, but Congress recently moved it forward three week to save energy...

Good morning, Janes! An item in yesterday’s Morning Jane has stuck in our noodles for an entire day. The expose on earmarks?No. Gordon Brown’sspeech to Congress? No. Alas, it was the warning from Milan that tapered pants may be making a comeback.Tapered pants...

Janes, today we followed the Senate Banking Committee hearing on what happened to A.I.G. and what we’re all supposed to do to save it, and the global economy, from itself. In the words of Sen...

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) thinks so...

Good morning, Janes! Now that March is upon us, it’s almost spring, and for high schol, college and mom Janes, it’s almost Spring Break...

The Janes know we at CJP are strictly non-partisan, so we pass along the following web site,ImsorryRush.com,to highlight it for several reasons...

Good morning, Janes! We’ve got good news and bad news. First the bad news: If the headlines were movie titles, we’d have to warn you that the only things playingtoday are tragedies and horror stories. The good news: Even “Titanic” had a happy ending. Sort of...

It’s time for Tuesday Girl Talk, CJP’s weekly look at lady leaders and other women fighting for equality around the word… Cherie Blair (at left) has a message for the Anglican and Catholic churches, which she says marginalize women and treat them as if they’re “invisible.” “Until the...

With the masters of the universe taking a demotion to mere federal employees, the world now looks to Washington to fix Wall Street’s woes...

Good morning, Janes! CJP reports from the Deep South this week, which leads us to ask,have you ever been south of the Mason-Dixon line for a snow storm...

CJP loves the “missed connections” section of the local paper, and for the first time, we have one of our own. So here it goes…. Us: CJP You: Blonde, happy, conservative Jane named Krystal, wearing a red jacket with elephants on your shoulder...

Good morning, Janes! After seeing the headlines this morning, we’re thinking that Uncle Sam has taken uncling to level that looks a lot more like parenting- bailing the kids out of jail every time they get themselves into trouble...

It’s the second day of CPAC, and Newt Gingrich is talking to his peeps...

Janes, if you’ve ever been locked out of your house, you understand our despair at not being able to access CJP for the last day and a half. The good news is we’ve found our keys and we’re back online. Stand by for the Morning Jane

For most people, February in Washington means frozen rivers, gray skies and a countdown to the day you can pack away the full-length puffer. But for the serious conservative, it’s time for the right-of-center confab, CPAC...

Good morning, Janes! The president sends his budget to Congress today, and it’s a little like the budget you submitted to your parents during college...

Good morning, Janes! President Obama, a man who has given a lot of big speeches this year, tees up another one tonight as he goes before a joint session of Congress. His job: To diagnose the patient, known as “the economy,” and to come up with a course of treatment to heal it, STAT...

Good morning, Janes! Yesterday was an exciting day for us! Bob Scheiffer, Chris Matthews and Hugh Jackman all in one day? “Slumdog Millionaire” reigned at the Oscars but let’s see who rules on our Sunday Show Scorecard...

Good morning, Janes! If you’re like CJP, you’re dragging a little today after staying up to watch the Oscars, even though you knew who would win Best Picture, Slumdog Millionaire, and you knew you’d be tired today...

Q. Riddle us this, Janes: What do you get when you cross “Top Chef” with “The West Wing?” A. The White House kitchen, which Michelle Obama shared with culinary students and the world yesterday on C-SPAN...

Would your mom be a tiny bit awkward if she were a guest on Indonesia’s version of MTV? Would it go something little like this?

Good morning, Janes! We at CJP were recently brainstorming about ways to create a new, more sustainable business model, and have come up with a can’t-miss solution: The National Bank of CJP...

Loyal Janes know CJP likes to take an occasional tour of the Bill of Rights based on what’s happening in the news, thinking that you can’t fight for your rights if you don’t even know what they are. Today, we turn your attention to the famous 10th Amendment. Not ringing any bells, ladies...

President Obama has landed in Ottawa for his first foreign trip, and our exceedingly friendly northern neighbors are live blogging every detail at the CBC’s website HERE and broadcasting the visit live HERE...

Good morning, Janes! If you get a Senate seat from a governor who is in trouble for lying (among other things), try not to lie during the depositions about how you got the Senate seat. Then tell Roland Burris how it worked out for you, because it’s not working so well for him these days...

If your neighborhood looks less like Wisteria Lane and more like Under Water World, you are just the homeowner President Obama will be talking to later today when he unveils his plan to tow the underwater real estate market back to dry land. Will it work? Who knows...

Good morning, Janes...

Good morning, Janes! We’re all abuzz this morning because we heard Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto dumped her boyfriend. We hope Rihanna takes a few tips from her next...

It’sMonday ladies, which means it’s time for the Sunday Show Scorecard. This is where we put our favorite Sunday shows to the test to see who is representing the voting majority. So where were the Janes this weekend...

Sen. Judd Gregg, bless his heart, got cold feet on the way to becoming Commerce secretary and declared he didn’t want to get hitched after all...

Good morning, Janes! We were offline yesterday, so we didn’t have a chance to celebrate the victory of Stumpy, the grand champion of the Westminster Dog Show...

Your 401k is exhausted and your checking account is dragging a little, too. Will the much-ballyhooed stimulus stimulate anything your world? The answer is maybe, depending on who you are. This bill will help you directly if you are: Receiving a paycheck- you’ll see a $400 tax credit...

Janes, because class warfare isn’t just for the House Financial Services Committee anymore, and because CJP simply cannot get enough Olivia Palermo, enjoy… The City - MTV Shows

Janes, we interrupt today’s focus on stimulus, TARPs and recessions for a confession: We’ve become a little tiny bit obsessed with Desiree Rogers, the new White House Social Secretary, and the subject of a William Norwich profile in this month’s “Vogue.” In there, we learn: She’s a...

Good morning, Janes! Yesterday, our crush, Capt. Sully Sullenberger, got a key to New York City for bringing his bird-struck jetliner to a safe “splash” landing in the Hudson river...

President Obama gathered no moss on his 20th day in office- hitting the road and the airwaves to sell his stimulus package as the Senate voted on cloture for the bill (you know what that means, right?)...

Good morning, Janes! It’s no dollar menu, but the Wall Street Journal reports Starbucks is planning coffee-and-breakfast discount specials to bring back recessionistas who have abandoned the chain for cheaper joe...

Good morning, Janes! The end of the week is mercifully upon us, but before we head for the exits, let’s take a minute to see what we’ve learned this week: 1. If you want to smoke pot after you win the Olympics, do it in the privacy of your dorm room like the teenagers who look up to you. 2...

After two months of talk, up to $920 billion of proposed spending and tax cuts, one bi-partisan White House cocktail party and three weeks of heavy duty back-and-forth, the fate of the entire stimulus package seems to be coming down to one woman: Sen. Susan Collins of Maine...

Several inquiring Janes have asked why President Obama keeps reaching out to Republicans to pass the stimulus bill when there are already 58 Democrats the Senate. Majority rules, right? Wrong...

How sweet was Day 16 for President Obama...

Janes, if you were going to buy something big this year, what would it be? If you said a house, you’re in luck, and we do mean luck. The Senate has approved a measure to give you a $15,000 tax credit if you buy a home in 2009...

Good morning Janes! Even after a most indulgent start in the House of Representatives, the stimulus has been on a bender in the Senate this week, picking up $70 billion in tax cuts, $20 billion in housing relief and tipping the scales this morning at more than $900 billion...

Tuesday should have been a high note for President Obama, as he appointed the third Republican to his cabinet. But as they say, conditions began to deteriorate. On his 15th day in office, Barack Obama: Nominated Republican Senator Judd Gregg as his Secretary of Commerce...

Good morning, Janes...