Watch CBS News Videos Online Marc Ambinder has written a very interesting post today on the devilish prowess of Sarah Palin, someone I’ve continually covered since the 2008 election ended. For good reason. There is no one who fits the mood or the times or fills the current political vacuum better than Sarah Palin. There has [...] [...more]
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 [...] [...more]
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 an adult to do that [...] [...more]
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 arguments [...] [...more]
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 in the [...] [...more]
There’s been a ridiculous back and forth going on that started with Rahm Emanuel calling the liberal activist strategy on health care “f-ing retarded.” This ticked off Sarah Palin, who evidently thinks her cute son Trig is either a liberal, an activist or somehow involved in the health care debate. Then of course, Rush, [...] [...more]
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 [...] [...more]
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 [...] [...more]
Scott Brown doesn’t even have a business card, but people are asking him about 2012. My favorite part of the Walters interview is that Brown has “no regrets” about his nude Cosmo spread. Brown told Barbara Walters “you have to have a sense of humor about yourself,” and links the centerfold to many of [...] [...more]
“My message to these groups who are inexplicably offended by a pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life message airing during the Super Bowl: please concentrate on empowering women, help with efforts to prevent unexpected pregnancies, stay consistent with your message that for too long women have been made to feel like sex objects in our ‘modern’ culture and [...] [...more]
updated In case you thought ratings over at Fox News Channel couldn’t get any better, get ready for the next bump. Palin goes pundit. Jim Rutenberg reports: The network confirmed that Ms. Palin would appear on the network’s programming on a regular basis as part of a multiyear deal. Financial terms were not disclosed. Ms. Palin will not [...] [...more]
The GOP establishment may not like her, but she doesn’t seem to care. Sarah Palin knows that whatever shot she’s got at the big job won’t come through traditional means. She’s mapped out another strategy, which Politico’s Andy Barr explains today: Palin is declining an invitation to address the Conservative Political Action Conference next month because, [...] [...more]
Third party movement, Republican pest or Democratic gift? The first time I heard about their convention it was through an ad on a conservative blog. Christian Science Monitor writes about the possibilities: .. But with an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll ranking a generic “Tea Party” as more popular than either Democrats or Republicans, and Palin herself [...] [...more]
It comes from the Republican gaffe machine, Rep. Peter King, proving yet again that my plea to disband and defund the Homeland Security apparatus is a good one. Via Ben Smith: “I think one main thing would be to — just himself to use the word terrorism more often,” said King, the ranking Republican on the [...] [...more]
updated Someone tell Matthew Yglesias it’s 2010. So, misattribution of a quote not Sect. Hillary Clinton’s really is so 2008. Besides, the Reuters headline didn’t even offer quotation marks on global threat. Reuters read: Clinton calls instability in Yemen a global threat. It should have tipped Yglesias off, but instead he used it as a Clinton [...] [...more]
