Stefan Sirucek of Huffington Post broke this story. “Energy.” “Budget [crossed out] (Cuts).” “Tax.” “Lift American spirits.” If Sarah Palin thought she needed notes there is no reason or excuse for not simply bringing them. The junior high school action of writing things on your hand you want to remember is so fundamentally embarrassing for [...]
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Sarah Palin: Tea Party Movement ‘Bigger Than Any Charismatic Guy with a Teleprompter’
It was Sarah Palin’s night. After a day when the “birthers” took a lot of heat from the Tea Partiers. Breitbart sounding beyond himself. “I was talking to her,” said Breitbart. “She was asking me if I thought it was was to bring it up, and I said, no. We have a lot of strong [...]
Senate Symbolism, and Pamela Geller Goes Hunting
–bumped– via TPM Obama makes a joke at his own expense today at the annual prayer breakfast, but as you can see in the video, his laugh isn’t full, but instead an afterthought, because the President knows all too well the dangers underlying the subtext of his material. Republican Rep. Mark Kirk won the Illinois [...]
Relating to Obama
So, to crunch the numbers, GOP primary turnout is up 11% over 2004. Democratic turnout has dropped 29%. If the Democrats let health care reform die, they’ll be looking at a turnout cataclysm. – Jonathan Chait I have been writing about Obama’s empathy and connection gap for years. As president, it’s gotten worse, morphing into [...]
Sarah’s USA Today Op-Ed
Palin’s op-ed today comes complete with links to her Twitter and Facebook page. Not that she’s recruiting supporters for 2012 or anything. She defends herself, but also makes the broader case for the Tea Party movement, which others have mentioned as well. That having started out as crazy “death panel” “birthers,” the movement has picked [...]
Palin Mag and Emotion Politics
Big primary day in the 2010 election season, with all sorts of things happening. Under the radar the 2012 season also begins, as does a battle likely to come in the Senate Democratic leadership fight, with feelings that Sen. Harry Reid may be heading for a loss. Amidst this we get a one-issue marketing magazine [...]
The House is Doing What???
–bumped– With no clear path forward on major health care legislation, Democratic leaders in Congress effectively slammed the brakes on President Obama’s top domestic priority on Tuesday, saying that they no longer felt pressure to move quickly on a health bill after eight months of setting deadlines and missing them. – Democrats Slam Brakes on [...]
Harry Reid, Titus and F-Bombs
–bumped– Now, a couple of years ago I met Dina Titus and her suave husband. I can just imagine her standing up and in her southern drawl letting fly on Sen. Harry Reid. Titus takes what Rep. Capuano said in Massachusetts (“we’re screwed”) and ups the ante. From Politico: In a display of contempt unfathomable [...]
Obama Has Lost More Than His Base
I’ve gotten a lot of emails since I sent out my newsletter last week. The more ridiculous included this one from “G.Rhodes” who said I was “still a traitor to Hillary.” Another in the same vein was from Angela B.: “When do we get your Mea Culpa for your role in s—-ing on Hillary Clinton.” [...]
Obama to Boston Crowd: ‘Fired Up!’
Obama comes to the rescue of Martha Coakley in Boston. Will it work? Ben Smith tweets what I’ve been hearing. Charlie Cook’s predictable pronouncement, via Mike Allen: “This past Thursday, Jan. 14, The Cook Political Report moved the open Massachusetts Senate seat rating from lean Democrat to toss-up, having moved it from solid Democrat to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dodd to Retire, Dorgan Out, Enter Harold Ford
Chris Cilizza reporting on Dodd, with his retirement possibly helping Dems keep the seat, according to those in the know, with a side note on Lieberman getting a serious 2012 challenger. That is, if he doesn’t go Republican by then. Still, this is a sad end for Sen. Dodd who as chairman of the Senate [...]
It’s Going To Get Harder From Here
On New Year’s weekend, all it took was one picture to set the right reeling. It began, as far as I can tell, with Glenn Reynolds, who compared Obama’s tux pic to Bush’s fighter jock “mission accomplished” stunt, but later upped the ante by posting another Obama shot, with this description: Just look at his [...]
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