The Politico headline is the jumping off point. The subtitle the lede: Harold Ford’s political weakness may be his high-paid job at Merrill Lynch and a gilded Manhattan life. Yeah, because we all know how much the American electorate is ready to sign on to that this year. Mr. Ford declined to discuss what he [...]
Archive | January, 2010
How Clueless Is The Democratic Leadership?
updated The headline here is from Talking Points Memo, to which I reply DUH. Though I’m not picking on TPM, but instead utilizing the headline to make a larger point. Democrats remain clueless as to what they’re facing in 2010. This includes Pres. Obama, who obviously doesn’t get it either. You’d think what happened on [...]
Teddy Kennedy’s Seat
updated and bumped I wanted to add something about this race. I’m 100% behind Ms. Coakley, but the scene outside Sonoma restaurant the other night, an upscale, wonderful wine bar that I’ve been to many times, is indicative of the heat right now coming from the right. A video of a “reporter” getting pushed to [...]
Dear NBC, I Watch Letterman
Conan’s statement begins People of Earth. Shorter: You can screw me, but I’m not going to be party to you screwing The Tonight Show. Now, I’m not a Conan fan, because when he was on late at night, that’s the time I’m usually reading or doing research into the wee hours when it’s quiet. As [...]
Health Care Test for Unions
“It could well be” a recipe for disaster in 2010, Trumka told a group of reporters. “I just came back from southern California. I was in five or six places out there… it is amazing the number of people that come up to you unsolicited and say, ‘I’m really worried about this health care bill.’” [...]
In Gillibrand v. Ford, Women’s Civil Rights at Stake
Who knows, maybe New York will make Harold Ford, Jr. lean left. But that simply hasn’t been his record, regardless of his protestations in the New York Post, of all papers, today. Recently, Mr. Ford said he’d “evolved” on gay marriage (“Today” show video), having voted against it in Tennessee, supporting the Defense of Marriage [...]
Prop 8 in Court
Ted Olson and David Boies partner up. Opening statement today, with one small section below: First – Marriage is vitally important in American society. Second – By denying gay men and lesbians the right to marry, Proposition 8 works a grievous harm on the plaintiffs and other gay men and lesbians throughout California, and adds [...]
Sarah Palin to Fox News
updated In case you thought ratings over at Fox News Channel couldn’t get any better, get ready for the next bump. Palin goes pundit. Jim Rutenberg reports: The network confirmed that Ms. Palin would appear on the network’s programming on a regular basis as part of a multiyear deal. Financial terms were not disclosed. Ms. [...]
Reid, Hume and Political Correctness Run Amok
updated below Sen. Harry Reid made a ridiculously embarrassing statement about Barack Obama. He apologized. Pres. Obama accepted. End of story? Hardly. Because everyone must get their scalp. In fact, even using the phrase with the word “scalp” in it, I’m likely to get hate mail. But one ray of light, the Congressional Black Caucus [...]
The McDonnell Economic Model
updated below Bob McDonnell won the Virginia governorship because he was running against a pitifully weak Democratic candidate, but also because he used economic discontent, something Frank Rich talks about today, which extends to health care, while utilizing Democrats in Washington as the target model, tapping into what independents are feeling right now, while simultaneously [...]
A Side of Dish from Election 2008
updated below Jackie Collins, eat your heart out. The teases from John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s new book, ‘Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime’, are deliciously salacious. Check out New York Magazine, whose excerpt on John and Elizabeth Edwards is a reputation killer for all time, [...]
The Only Choice Left Is Mutiny
I’m a liberal. “Progressive” was adopted because the right had made the word “liberal” radioactive and activists didn’t want to fight to change the persona. So, they simply adopted a new name. That’s fine, but it’s indicative of the battle, though there are strains of liberal fight in the movement progressives, seen in the economic [...]
Palin Knows Exactly What She’s Doing
The GOP establishment may not like her, but she doesn’t seem to care. Sarah Palin knows that whatever shot she’s got at the big job won’t come through traditional means. She’s mapped out another strategy, which Politico’s Andy Barr explains today: Palin is declining an invitation to address the Conservative Political Action Conference next month [...]
OBAMA: ‘We are at war. We are at war against al Qaeda.’
–updated– (Part of Obama’s statement today.) Pres. Obama gave conservatives what they wanted in the words they wanted to hear. In fact, they could have scripted them. Then he channeled a little Harry S. Truman. “Ultimately, the buck stops with me,” Obama said today. The security review is now online, with the summary telling the [...]
Jones: ‘A Certain Shock’ Coming Over Missed Clues in Latest Terrorism Report
This one makes me queasy. From USA Today: White House national security adviser James Jones says Americans will feel “a certain shock” when they read an account being released Thursday of the missed clues that could have prevented the alleged Christmas Day bomber from ever boarding the plane. President Obama “is legitimately and correctly alarmed [...]
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