How closely should the Republican Party align itself with the Tea Party movement? That was one of the questions in National Journal’s The Hotline new media poll this week. Here’s the breakdown and my two cents on this one: “No, but let’s hope they do, as it would reveal the utter confusion on the right. [...]
Archive | April, 2010
Financial Reform Talk Smacks Up Against Ike’s Warning
[...] In fact, the president is on track to spend more on defense, in real dollars, than any other president has in one term of office since WWII. In that time we’ve had Korea, Vietnam, the massive military buildup under Reagan, and Bush’s funded-by-tax-cuts invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, but in the most trying economic [...]
Schumer Slams Pres. Obama over Israeli Policy
If we could only believe this is a case of good cop – bad cop to move peace mountain. However, there is no silver lining on what Sen. Chuck Schumer has done, because he’s made Pres. Obama the bad guy on Israel, something the right has been trying unsuccessfully to do. That Schumer chose the [...]
SEC Porn Watchers Made 6 Figures
Nobody is immune to smut’s pull. Well, not exactly nobody, but it can happen to anyone. Even big money people at the SEC can get caught with their… er… pants down. Alert the media. SEC’s inspector general found that the SEC staffers violated government-wide ethics rules. Why the AP is framing the story that the [...]
Celebrating Earth Day, with a Side of Politics
Will you be doing anything to honor the environment today? I’ll be out along the Potomac path this afternoon doing my part. One story that caught my eye today is another report on the Tea Party, which again obliterates the notion that it’s packed by independents. It also reiterates what I’ve written about the group, [...]
Caught Between Obama, Clinton Derangement, and Palin Paranoia
What’s the difference between Andrew Sullivan’s obsession “about Palin’s bizarre story about her fifth campaign prop during the campaign,” and Sean Hannity’s nutty insistence that Vince Foster didn’t commit suicide? And what’s The Atlantic’s responsibility for continuing to allow Sullivan’s coverage that implies there’s something worth investigating when nothing is ever offered to advance the [...]
Donny Deutsch Yanked for Keith Olbermann Offense
–bumped– Wonder what David Shuster is doing these days, as another MSNBC dog fight breaks into the open. There’s an old saying in show biz, always support the star, as upstaging him or her can be deadly. Phil Griffin has now made it clear that MSNBC isn’t a news network, it’s simply a star vehicle. [...]
The Hack-tacular Mr. Wolffe is Back
“…the White House has been very good to me.” – Richard Wolffe Pres. Obama’s battles with the press lately has prompted the White House to enlist an old favorite. Richard Wolffe, the journalist Obama team’s favorite stenographer is back and he’s ticking people off. From Michael Calderone, who’s gone from Politico to The Newsroom (h/t [...]
Palin Plays the Faith Card, ‘Jews for Sarah’ Joins In
“Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers,” said Palin. “And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.” – Sarah Palin It seems a site created by Binyamin Korn for “Jewish independents” is out to help Sarah Palin, via [...]
Mark Penn Offers Advice to Obama on Iran and Israel
Who’s still listening to Mark Penn? Seriously, if the man wasn’t aware the Democratic primaries wasn’t winner-take-all, how can he possibly understand the Middle East? Proving this point, Mr. Penn still thinks it’s the 1960s and the Middle East hasn’t changed. This is the foundation for his foreign policy advice to Pres. Obama, and another [...]
Mitch McConnell Changes his Tone
After a week of attacking the pending legislation as a ticket to new taxpayer “bailouts,” McConnell is striking a different tone. Monday on the Senate floor, he called for lawmakers to move beyond “personal attacks and questioning each others’ motives” to “fixing the problems in this bill.” – McConnell softens tone on finance regulation bill [...]
The President is Not Amused
Activists from a group called GetEQUAL began shouting at Obama while he was speaking at the podium. They expressed frustration over the slow progress of repealing the ban on openly gay people serving in the military. – Gay rights protesters interrupt Obama speech at fundraiser Pres. Obama does not like being challenged… especially in public. [...]
Reagan Segregation Legacy Creeps Back In
Call it a coincidence, but on the day that Dorothy I. Height passes, to find a separate story about segregated schools creeping back into the south seems like a country crying out for more witness to progress we’ve made, then lost. Studies have shown schools drifting back into segregation since the 1980s, when the federal [...]
Remembering Timothy McVeigh in the Era of Obama and the Tea Party
There you go again. Republicans love to re-write history, especially if they can delegitimize a Democrat at the same time. Byron York doing some fancy cherry-picking to coincide with the remembrance of the Oklahoma City bombing. No doubt he’s trying to give the Tea Party people and the angry right cover as we all remember [...]
Obama’s Problems Began Under Bush, Escalated Because of Health Care
I’ve been saying this for a long time, with a Pew poll now mooring the mounting discontent where it belongs. In the fall of 2008, when the financial crisis occurred. As I’ve also written, it was health care that ignited it. The recent downward trend in trust in government began in the fall of 2008, [...]
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