“He’s just a president and like any president you have to hold their feet to the fire,” Maher tells POLITICO. … “This is not what I voted for” he said, after Obama had failed to meet Maher’s expectations on health care and climate change. What he needs in his personality is a little George Bush. [...]
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Nobody’s Thrilled, But Republicans Still 2nd to Obama
Fox News has been making a serious charge about mainstream political reporters: They hate Sarah Palin. This is not just wrong, it’s absurd. The reality is exactly the opposite: We love Palin. And if Palin does not exactly love us, she’s smart enough to recognize how quickly reporters devour every provocative remark she utters. She [...]
McCain-Lieberman Push Iran Human Rights Bill
This would authorize the president to deny visas and freeze economic assets for people in Iran who are responsible for the kind of brutality that we’re seeing on these videos,” Lieberman said during an appearance on MSNBC. – The Hill Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy On the 31st [...]
The Swoon
Well, never let it be said that the traditional media establishment won’t eventually catch on. David Broder, the Washington dean of politics, finally takes a deep breath only to find himself intoxicated by Sarah. The political perfume that’s been dropped on doorsteps in every conservative conclave in the nation, created the day she decided that [...]
Democrats Can’t Lead, Republicans are Worse
CBS’s Mark Knoller makes an amazing and completely wrong assessment of Obama’s bipartisanship appeal to Republicans: What these presidential appeals for bipartisanship always mean is: do it my way. Your liberal media at work. I guess Knoller thinks Obama’s commitment to nuclear and “clean coal” technology, which began long before he was elected, not to [...]
Tone Deaf In Chief
“I, like most of the American people, don’t begrudge people success or wealth. That is part of the free-market system.” – Pres. Barack Obama Well, the new media heavies (and latest wannabe) are having a blast with Obama’s latest blunder. Simon Johnson blasts Obama, with Paul Krugman calling him “clueless,” followed by “Oh. My. God.” [...]
The Accidental Godfather of the Tea Party
–updated– Republicans have significantly narrowed the gap with Democrats on who is trusted to deal with the country’s problems and have sharply reduced several of President Obama’s main political advantages, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. … Asked how they would vote in the November House elections, Americans split evenly — 46 percent [...]
Brennan, and ‘Bomb Iran’ is Back
Some news that’s surfacing slowly is Iran’s new bluster on refining higher grade uranium. Russia and Israel seem to be talking the same language, while China still isn’t willing to sign on to harsh sanctions, something SecDef Gates is promising will come sooner rather than later. Even as it will take some time to reconfigure [...]
What’s In It for Republicans?
What do you know. Ezra Klein finally gets it. Better late than never, though as long as it took it’s not very impressive. On Sunday, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell responded to Barack Obama’s summit invitation by demanding Obama scrap the health-care reform bill entirely. This is the context for that demand. What they want [...]
Bipartisanship Obama Believes In
The New York Times picks up on Obama’s interview with Katie Couric: Watch CBS News Videos Online “I want to come back and have a large meeting, Republicans and Democrats, to go through systematically all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward,” Mr. Obama said in the interview from the White [...]
Palin’s Hand-y List
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 [...]
Super Bowl Sunday
Today began “State of the Union” with Candy Crowley, with one of her guests Sect. Hillary Rodham Clinton. I’ll add a big note of praise to the political gods and CNN for Ms. Crowley, the first woman ever to anchor an important Sunday news show. Talk about paying your dues. Christiane Amanpour does foreign policy [...]
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 [...]
Sarah Gets a Studio – Tea Party Gets a PAC
–updated– Without leaving home, Sarah Palin will be able to reach much of her political base, courtesy of a soon-to-be-built television studio in her living room paid for by her newest media patron, Fox News. From her house in Wasilla, Alaska, Ms. Palin also sends missives to 1.3 million Facebook “fans,” writes newspaper columns, Tweets [...]
Anything Goes
music compliments of WB MSNBC headline: Palin e-mails reveal a powerful ‘first dude’. With the Tea Party convention in full swing this weekend, and the Beltway snowed in, can there be any doubt Fox News channel will get plenty of eyes Saturday night? However, the laugh out loud of the week is the rambling exhale [...]
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