edited by: Adam Haverstock,
California Editor
There are 321 days left until California voters go to the polls and choose their next governor. That's a long time, but not so long that political junkies won't read tonight's new poll and wonder this: might the all-but-official Democratic heavyweight candidate end up losing?
It's not that crazy a question, [...]
It seems there was a pretty contentious decision over who should take over as City Manager in Santa Rosa. According to the Press Democrat, "A deeply divided Santa Rosa City Council Tuesday chose former Advanced Planning Director Wayne Goldberg to be interim city manager, edging out the city's second-in-command, Deputy [...]
During the debate over ObamaCare, the scope of Obama's and the Democrats' intended reform of America has become clearer. Obama wants more than simply an increased role for the federal government in those affairs of our life in which it already has a role. He wants to nationalize and socialize [...]
Been trying to craft a post today on the Democrats mad rush to pass a bill, any bill, just so they can do what they (public opinion polls notwithstanding) believe Americans have long been wanting Congress to do, you know, complete the unfinished business of the New Deal and enact [...]
Democrats Unify Behind Bera
The November 2010 election is less than a year away and the campaign is already well under way. Dr. Ami Bera’s path to the Democratic nomination has cleared up, and both former opponents have given Dr. Bera their support. At a [...]
Bryon York sums up Why Democrats push health care, even if it kills them with "Democrats are all in. They're going through with it. Even if it kills them."
And of course it will kill a' [...]
I'll get right to the point: I'm through trying to figure Lieberman out. I'm through with holding my nose' [...]
I posted this earlier at Open Left
Back in July I wrote here, in Democrats Had Better Find Hiding Places
I said it the other day, and I feel the need to repeat it: the public does not yet understand that the government is about to order people [...]With yet another poll showing Obama’s approval rating plummeting (with the Democrat enjoying even worse numbers on health care), it’s clear that whatever coalition his campaign built in last fall’s campaign is crumbling. As blogger JSF put it:
The coalition that President Obama built was on the backs [...]
Obama: Senate on precipice of passing health care:
President Barack Obama met privately with Senate Democrats on Tuesday and then declared they were “on the precipice” of enacting health care legislation that has eluded administrations and lawmakers for decades.
Yeah, they’re on a precipice all right, Mr. President. And should they pass [...]
Yet, in another display of his "post-partisanship", Arnold appointed Matosantos, a registered Democrat, to replace Mike Genest [...]
If three is a trend, what is four? Bart Gordon of TN has announced that he will not seek a 14th term but plans to retire from the House. He joins Dennis Moore (KS), John Tanner (TN) and Brian Baird (WA) as Democrats in swing districts who have announced their [...]
She's the best-selling author of "Going Rogue,'' a former VP candidate and governor of Alaska, and now Sarah Palin has a surprising new role -- as the most bankable star in...
It may all be coming down now to abortion.
With Sen. Joe Lieberman now saying he'll support health legislation, the Democrats' 60th vote may be Nebraska conservative Democrat Ben Nelson, who is...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger addressed the UN climate summit today in Copenhagen.
** NEW COLUMN COMING UP … OBAMA’S WEAK HAND ON CLIMATE, AND THE CALIFORNIA OPTION.
** QUICK HITS. President Barack Obama emerged from his meeting with Senate Democrats today saying that national health care reform is on the verge of [...]
One cannot help but wonder.
Freshman Congressman Tom Perriello is a Democrat. His district is mostly central Virginia [...]
In a further example of bias at the AP (in the guise of journalism critical of a Democratic politician), “reporter” Kevin Freking covers how the two Republicans vying to replace Barbara Boxer in the United States Senate have been making much of her “reprimanding a general for calling her [...]
Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi delivered the Keynote Address to the Democratic Party of Orange County’s 15th Annual Harry S. Truman Award Dinner last Friday, December 4th in Irvine. For those who [...]
