Boehner won a bare majority in a vote that saw nine Republicans vote for other GOP members, and several others who abstained from voting or voted “present.” Two years ago, Boehner won all 241 available GOP votes. [The Hill] NEXT FIGHT for Speaker Boehner is getting Republicans to raise the $16.4 trillion debt ceiling, educating [...]
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Fools on the Hill
Things were so bad for Speaker John Boehner Thursday night, support for his Plan B tax bill so diminished, the limits of his power with his own party laid bare, that he stood in front of the House Republican Conference and recited the Serenity Prayer. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I [...]
News Desk — Gov. Haley’s Historic Pick for South Carolina: Tim Scott
Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina has chosen Representative Tim Scott to replace Jim DeMint in the United States Senate, according to three Republican officials. The move will make Mr. Scott the first black senator from the South since the late 19th century. [The Caucus - New York Times] THE 2012 presidential election cycle will [...]
Bill Kristol Goes All In on Taxing the Wealthiest
SO WE now hear from the vanquished. From Huffington Post, reporting on Sunday: “It won’t kill the country if we raise taxes a little bit on millionaires,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” “It really won’t, I don’t think. I don’t really understand why Republicans don’t take Obama’s offer.” “Really? The Republican Party is going [...]
Top Story — It’s the Demographics, Stupid
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy AND BY stupid I mean former Governor Haley Barbour’s assertion that Sandy cost Mitt Romney the presidency. I made the case preemptively that Romney couldn’t blame losing on Sandy, knowing what was bound to come in what I believed (and wrote) would be [...]
TOP STORY – Team Obama Takes Out Right Wing Noise Machine, Rush, Sean, Laura, All Led by Karl Rove [Video]
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 [...]
Washington Post/ABC Poll: Obama Trails Romney by 33 Points with White Males
However, Romney does now boast a statistically — and substantively — important lead on the economy, which has long been the central issue of the race. When it comes to handling the nation’s struggling economy, 52 percent of likely voters say they trust Romney more, while 43 percent say they have more faith in the [...]
Tabloid TV: Fox News Becomes the Benghazi Channel
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com ON FOX News channel yesterday, former General Jack Keane refused to play ball with Megyn Kelly, in what has developed on the FNC network as All Benghazi (almost) All The Time. Ms. Kelly’s frustration and disappointment read on the screen. However, Keane is an exception and FNC doesn’t make [...]
The Epic Fail of Drudge, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity
But when footage finally aired on Hannity’s Fox News program and on Carlson’s Daily Caller website at 9 p.m., following hours of aniticipation spurred by Drudge’s promise of controversy and Hannity’s promise of a “bombshell”, it fell flat. – Dylan Byers, Politico THE DAYS of Matt Drudge having influence beyond the Sean Hannity squealers is [...]
Paul Ryan’s Remarks Beat Daily Caller’s 2007 Obama Tape [Video and Transcript]
TUCKER CARLSON’S Daily Caller, in an apparent move to be the conservative version of Mother Jones, has unloaded a 2007 video of Barack Obama that had Sean Hannity jumping out of his infotainment captain’s chair on Tuesday night, as he talked with Carlson. Juan Williams couldn’t get a word in during another segment with Hannity. [...]
What Should Romney Do in the Debate? The O’Reilly-Ingraham Edition [Video]
THE SEGMENT on “Fox and Friends” today turned into a battle over whether Michael Savage is “malicious” or not, with O’Reilly and Laura Ingraham colliding on debate strategy for Romney. Watching Bill O’Reilly’s face as Laura Ingraham takes it to him is a priceless moment. The upshot of the whole segment? Romney needs to capture [...]
Top Story: The Republican Swarm to Save Mitt
IT’S ALL HACKS on deck. A battle between the Republican establishment on one side and on the other is conservative bloggers and other allies trying to help Mitt Romney make the case that President Obama’s Middle East policy caused what happened in Benghazi, Libya. The art of political warfare depends on riding into a negative [...]
Jake Tapper Questions Whether U.S. Haste to Exit Afghanistan is Cause for Green-on-Blue Killings
IN A CONVERSATION that cites the biased coverage of 2008, as well as what it might mean for 2012, the interview ABC News’s Jake Tapper did with Laura Ingraham is not something you’ll hear every day. Tapper said he thought the “media helped tip the scales” in ’08, which I prove conclusively in my book, [...]
Romney Calls Akin Comments ‘Insulting, Inexcusable and Wrong’, As Rove’s Group Pulls Out of Missouri
The conservative outside-spending powerhouse Crossroads GPS is pulling its ads from the Missouri Senate race, three sources confirmed to POLITICO. [...] Contacted about the decision to withdraw its resources from Missouri, Crossroads spokesman Nate Hodson responded: “The act speaks for itself.” [Politico] REPUBLICAN NOMINEE Mitt Romney acted like someone who wants to lead Republicans closer [...]
Top Story: Romney Accuses Obama Campaign of ‘Hate’ After 3 Years of Birtherism
“Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago,” Romney said while campaigning in Ohio. [The Hill] “Well I think, if you look at the ads that have been described and the divisiveness based upon income, age, ethnicity and so forth, it’s designed to bring a sense of enmity and [...]
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