edited by: Lisa Renee Ward,
Ohio Editor
Filed under: Gaffes, Obama Administration
New York PostFiled under: Senate, Republicans
via NRO, The Courier-Journal has the latest from Senator Bunning, likely the most vulnerable Republican in the senate.Filed under: Senate, Primaries
Courtesy of Cilizza at the washingtonpost.com, three good paragraphs. First, in response to the polling reported by DK yesterday.
Filed under: Republicans, Sarah Palin, 2012 President
The Plum LineFiled under: Media, Obama Administration
AP looks at a two studies that evaluated exactly how much the media is in the tank for Obama by comparing the press coverage with that of Bush and Clinton. Answer: big time. The tone of comments by reporters and sources on the [...]Filed under: Senate, Primaries
Update on the Ridge vs. Toomey situation that Matt blogged about earlier. Roll Call via the scorecard POLITICO.comFiled under: Primaries, Fundraising
Weapons of Mass Discussion were on the con call today and had the updates.Filed under: Media, Obama Administration
Time Net Show 18-49 Rating/Share 18-34 Rating/Share Viewers (Millons) 8:00 FOX Lie to Me 2.4/7 2.1/7 7.88 CW America's Next Top Model 1.8/6 2.1/7 4.00 ABC President Obama Press Conference 1.6/5 1.4/5 6.12 CBS President Obama Press Conference 1.5/5 0.9/3 6.01 NBC President [...]Filed under: Senate, Republicans
Let me chime in on what are likely to be a host of reactions. In general my feelings line up closely with The Jawa Report:Filed under: Budget, Obama Administration
From the Guardian:Filed under: Nancy Pelosi, Investigations
J Porter Goss slams Pelosi and others for recent mis-allocation of their own memory.Filed under: Nancy Pelosi, Investigations
J Porter Goss slams Pelosi and others for recent mis-allocation of their own memory.Filed under: House, Nancy Pelosi, Investigations
...when waterboarding was cool.
I think reasonable people can argue whether waterboarding is torture. It creates pain and unpleasantness, and the Wikipedia' [...]
Filed under: Economy, Scandal, Investigations
From the Wall Street Journal, this morning, a shocking revelation. At least this is shocking to me, something I thought would be impossible.Filed under: Economy, Budget, Polls
Rasmussen ReportsFiled under: Bush Administration, Economy, Budget, Obama Administration
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PoughkeepsieJournal.comFiled under: Guns, Polls, Obama Administration
An interesting story at Newsweek.com about the non-prospects for any sort of gun control.Filed under: Republicans, Media, Obama Administration
Hot Air: No surprise that the master of astroturfing would find a true grassroots movement distasteful. To be scrupulously fair, it's not the parties themselves that he's calling "unhealthy" but rather the potential of populist anger in an age of economic [...]Filed under: Republicans, Economy, Budget
Might have something to do with the reception of this South Carolinian Gresham Barret (R) who voted for the bailout in September. (Palmetto Scoop via Instapundit)
Shouts of "too late", "Go Home!", boos, members of crowd turning [...]
Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Economy, Budget
Here's a pre-Tea Party Roundup. Also more info to local tea parties can be found here.Riehl World View has a warning for both Republicans [...]
Filed under: Democrats, Obama Administration
KTUU AnchorageFiled under: Republicans, 2012 President
NYTimes.com - Paul KrugmanFiled under: Foreign Policy, Obama Administration
Youtube via BlackFive.
What happens to the fourth pirate now? I don't know but the Convention on the High Seas spells out the current law.
Article 19 On the high seas, or in any other place outside the' [...]Filed under: Foreign Policy, Obama Administration
AP NewsFiled under: Republicans, Economy, Budget
Parcbench has the email from Eric Odom, the Chicago Tea Party Organizer to Michael Steele, RNC Chairman in response to a request from Mr. Steele to have a speaking slot at the next Chicago rally:Filed under: Media, Obama Administration
It's a sad state of affairs when you have to go all the way across the Atlantic to find some criticism of Obama in a mainstream paper. Gerald Warner starts out by mocking Obama's big win of 5,000 troops for AfghanistanFiled under: Democrats, Immigration, Obama Administration
The IndependentFiled under: Gaffes, Foreign Policy, Obama Administration
POLITICO.comFiled under: Economy, Immigration, Foreign Policy, Obama Administration
Los Angeles TimesFiled under: 2008 Senate
Star-TribuneFiled under: President Bush
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POLITICO.comFiled under: House, Republicans, Budget
WashingtonPost.comFiled under: Economy, Investigations, Obama Administration
POLITICO.comFiled under: House, Democrats, Republicans
Times UnionFiled under: President Bush, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy
Obama bows to the Saudi King and it's the hot pic of the day.Filed under: 2008 Senate, Scandal, Investigations
NYTimes.comFiled under: House
Are the Republicans about to stop their election bleeding? Are the voters turning against stimulus and bailouts? Is an Obama endorsement a magic ticket to victory? The entire political world, media, pundits, and consultants look to NY Congressional District 20, and Republican Tedisco vs. Democrat Murphy for [...]Filed under: Barack Obama, 2008 President, Fundraising
The Philadelphia Bulletin reports about what the New York Times didn't consider fit to print about ACORN:Filed under: Media, Obama Administration
Earlier this month, Mark and Tommy posted stories about an article on Rush's ratings and whether they doubled. At the time I had to agree with Tommy that it was highly suspect that Rush's ratings actually doubled. I thought they had gone [...]Filed under: Joe Biden, Healthcare, Obama Administration
Here's the New York Times, in an article that on the whole is much nicer to Joe Biden than the interesting quotes I'm pulling from it here:Filed under: Foreign Policy, Obama Administration
The ObserverFiled under: Democrats, Republicans, Economy, Obama Administration
This is a quick response to David Knowles' excellent article about what happens if Obama's plan for the economy actually works. In the conventional view, there are two real risks for the GOP. By opposing Obama, they risk that' [...]Filed under: Senate, House, Economy, Obama Administration
This editorial by a soon-to-be-former AIG employee at the NYT is getting the buzz of the day at Memorandum, and it's not hard to see why. Jake DeSantis starts out with some context as to how he came [...]Filed under: Economy, Obama Administration
Representative Barrett was curious today, at the Geithner hearing, about what the next step was, just in case...Filed under: Economy, Obama Administration
A reader at Jim Geraghty's Campaign Spot offers an explanation of what happened today in the markets:
Filed under: House, Democrats, Economy, Obama Administration
Yesterday, Obama appeared to welcome the House-passed bill to slap a 90% tax on the AIG bonuses. via ReutersFiled under: Economy, Obama Administration
Again, we have to rely on Jake Tapper to take on the Sam Donaldson role in the WH press corps. If Sam Donaldson were moderate and civil that is. But Jake still appears to be the toughest in the room.
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Filed under: Polls, Obama Administration
Rasmussen Reports:
Filed under: Republicans, Economy, Budget, Obama Administration
Tea Party protests like this one in my hometown are very much happening. Here's a pic via an Instapundit reader.Filed under: 2012 President
Jules Crittenden notes that Gen. David Petraeus is scheduling events in Iowa, which to us political geeks can mean Only One Thing:Filed under: Barack Obama, John McCain, Economy
File this one under, "If a Republican had said it..."Filed under: Senate, Budget, Obama Administration
The embedded clip is the Senate Budget Committee hearing with Tim Geithner yesterday (via CSpan). All 2 hours or so. The relevant portion is 33:00 to 44:00 or so, the exchange between Senator Gregg and Treasury Secretary Geithner.
About a [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Economy
While she did get her dream scenario last November, things haven't gone well for Jennifer Stone-Anderson in the past few months. The artist painted up her car as a rolling Obama campaign billboard, but now she's about to lose it. Something about car payments' [...]Filed under: Economy, Obama Administration
OrlandoSentinel.comFiled under: Republicans
FiveThirtyEight claims to have a credible source saying that Steele is out if the GOP doesn't win NY-20 later in the month. I don't know about that, it seems to be a pretty specific claim for a Democratic site, but more interesting and concerning [...]Filed under: Economy, Budget, Obama Administration
First, for old times sake, McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Obama Administration
Remember, "Never Waste a Crisis" is a synonym for fear-mongering, which is something we were told that the Obama administration was hoping against and changing.
So see if you can figure out if the Obama administration is for or against using [...]
Filed under: Media
Los Angeles TimesFiled under: Republicans, Media
We've seen this before. A neo-conservative luminary says something critical about conservatism, is showered by adulation by the liberal press, finds that he likes it and tries to springboard the criticism to launch a bigger career. In David Frum's case, this was started with his' [...]Filed under: Economy, Obama Administration
Paul Krugman is losing the Obama love. Oh I'm sure he'd still vote for the guy. But this is definitely newsworthy, given Jim Cramer's recent rants showing he isn't the only one looking at the abyss in the market and wondering when' [...]Filed under: Senate, Republicans, Primaries
Looks like Arlen Specter is getting "primaried" as a direct consequence of his vote for a trillion dollar stimulus bill. He'd better hope it starts doing what Obama said it would. Any day now, I'm sure.Filed under: Economy, Obama Administration
Jim Cramer, unlike Rush Limbaugh, cannot be written off as just another right wing talk show host reflexively opposed to all things Obama. Here's how he describes himself today.Filed under: Republicans, Media, Obama Administration
Rush to the president:Now that your handlers are praising themselves for promoting me as the head of a political party -- they think that's a great thing -- then it should be a no-brainer for you to further advance [...]Filed under: Economy, Obama Administration
TIp to perfunction for this clip of Obama as investment advisor:
Now I know what you're thinking: "What the hell is a profits to earnings ratio?" Well we're pretty sure he meant a price to earnings ratio, but I [...]
Filed under: Scandal, Investigations
FOXNews.comFiled under: Democrats, Republicans, Predictions
There were plenty of good and thoughtful comments in yesterday's post. Unfortunately some of the comments were of the variety of "the GOP will never get back into power until they do X." All part of a pattern of concern coming from [...]