Maybe Obama reelect can finally get a day off, if for no other reason than to watch the coming onslaught. They’ve certainly done the job on Romney Republicans seemed too squeamish to do themselves, but which is now about to land hard on Mitt’s presidential campaign. Whatever vestige of Reagan’s 11th commandment was alive is [...]
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Election Eve: Dems Way Down, Sarah Still Rising
Happy Election Day eve, with numbers coming out on Pres. Obama that are devastating for Democrats. Among likely voters, Obama is down to 44% approval; his approval among white voters at 38%, realizing that 85% of likely voters in the tough states across the rust belt and Midwest are white. Bill Clinton’s approval among whites [...]
Obama on Defense: ‘Yes we can, but…
At this point in time, with the polls revealing almost all bad news, Mr. Obama should be on offense. The title above is a quote from Pres. Obama with Jon Stewart, which brought one of the biggest laughs of the night. What’s worse is the title of The Hill post today, which was given to [...]
Joe Sestak Catches Toomey, Turns PA to Tossup
The House is one midterm story, but what’s playing out for the Senate is quite another. Only Democrats voting can turn these tough races where Republicans are still favored into a Senate seat. It’s also why Markos gets the tweet of the day. With two weeks left, some conservative right-wingers are losing altitude, with Democrats [...]
Not These Guys Again
The fat cats at the big corporations are drooling at the prospect of “Speaker Boehner,” and why not? The industries giving the most to Boehner: insurance companies, drug manufacturers and Wall Street firms, all of which now face new regulations adopted by the Democratic-controlled Congress. The political action committees and employees of insurance firms, for [...]
Sestak and Bloomberg Show How It’s Done
…As its defenders point out, the Community Center at Park51 will occupy not a solitary inch of the 16-block site on which the Twin Towers stood. Once built, the center will indeed house a mosque, “open and accessible to all” — but also a swimming pool, basketball court, auditorium, library, day-care facility, restaurant and cooking [...]
Mosque Politics
What Barack Obama and his White House political team haven’t learned could fill a large notebook at this point. But you’d think they would have at least learned from George W. Bush’s two-term presidency. The American electorate care less if a president is right than if he stands up strongly even when wrong. This last [...]
‘Emergency Committee for Israel’ Targets Joe Sestak
Leading conservatives will launch a new pro-Israel group this week with a scathing attack on Rep. Joe Sestak, the Democratic Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, the first shot in what they say will be a confrontational campaign against the Obama administration’s Mideast policy and the Democrats who support it. – New conservative group will oppose Obama [...]
Bill Clinton Intermediary, but Sestak Navy Sect. Job Rumor False
–Sestak statement added below– Greg Sargent was the first to break the story. Bottom line: nothing here, put away the popcorn. Now, I’m a regular watcher of “Morning Joe.” So, I was cringing every time Scarborough began ranting about Sestak being offered the Sect. of Navy job. Chuck Todd did his best to keep Joe [...]
Joe Sestak Didn’t Offer Himself the Job
In the heat of a rough primary campaign Joe Sestak said he was offered a job by the White House. Contrary to Joe Scarborough’s statements, Sestak never said specifically what job. But his primary political gamesmanship is now coming back to haunt him. No doubt Ed Rendell is enjoying this after his machine was humiliated [...]
Sestak was Honest, Now It’s Over to Rahm
“I think what the White House should do is, to some degree, say, ‘Here are the facts,’” Weiner said Monday morning during an appearance on MSNBC. “If there’s not a lot [to] what’s going on here, then just say what happened.” – The Hill video via Politico Robert Gibbs said yesterday that “nothing inappropriate happened.” [...]
Political Zen
Rep. Souder resigned this week. Ideological purity versus implementation of policy for the public’s welfare, the purpose of politics, don’t mix. See Rand Paul. However, there are times when you have to take a stand and go down fighting if the principle you’re asked to compromise is a bridge too far. One of the most [...]
What It All Means
The outcomes of both contests, along with a Democratic primary in Arkansas that pushed Senator Blanche Lincoln into a runoff election in June, illustrated anew the serious threats both parties face from candidates who are able to portray themselves as outsiders and eager to shake up the system. – Specter Defeat Signals a Wave Against [...]
Joe Sestak: ‘A Win for the People Over the Establishment, Over the Status Quo, even over Washington, DC’
Meanwhile, AR Lt. Gov. Bill Halter forces Sen. Blanche Lincoln into runoff, according to CNN. Not sure even Bill Clinton can save her. It’s a cinch Pres. Obama cannot. As for the DSCC and the Democratic Party elites, they backed the guy. Never bet against a military man. Though the White House and the Democratic [...]
Election Night 2010, Take One
BREAKING NEWS… AP CALLS IT FOR JOE SESTAK. Lawrence O’Donnell re Sestak win, “White House political operation is reeling from this result and they should be.” Shorter: they suck. Also, Big Labor gets stiffed on this race, too. UPDATE: Critz brings it in for Dems, so Bill Clinton did what he needed to do on [...]
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