TODAY AT noon, and then again at 3:00 p.m., after listening to right wing radio for 20 years, I get to tune in to finally hear what I wrote about in my book. The last gasp of a dying influence. It’s over, even if the medium lives on. But finally, at long last, new-media has [...]
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Top Story: Obama Campaign Writes Mitt Romney on Taxes
DEAR MITT… I am writing to ask again that the Governor release multiple years of tax returns, but also to make an offer that should address his concerns about the additional disclosures. Governor Romney apparently fears that the more he offers, the more our campaign will demand that he provide. So I am prepared to [...]
The Women Behind Reelect POTUS
BUZZFEED’S QUICK AND DIRTY dissection of three of the top women inside Obama reelect is instructive. The tale begins with Rosengate, with Stephanie Cutter the central figure that helped manage a situation that went viral and gave Mitt Romney a breather from withering, well earned war on women attacks. But Cutter’s central role in damage [...]
CBPP: Republican Deficit Plan Offers ‘Minuscule Revenue’
chart via TPM The full headline from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is this: Republican Plan Contains Minuscule Revenue Increase Alongside Deep Cuts in Medicare and Medicaid. It’s the story on what the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (aka the “supercommittee”) is planning and proposing. But get this, Republicans also consider increases [...]
2012: ‘Ultra-paranoid’ Jim Messina and Obama’s Re-elect
Says one Democratic operative of Messina: “I hope he’s better at political campaigns than at managing big, important pieces of legislation.” – Jim Messina, Obama’s Enforcer, by Ari Berman Absolutely nothing frosted me more than watching the White House bungle the health care messaging. Jim Messina is the guy who got beat by Sarah Palin’s [...]
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