“The Fix” in today’s Washington Post offers up this headline: Obama: The most polarizing president. Ever. When you look at how divided this country is that could be easy to conclude, but is it President Obama’s fault? First let’s take a look at how they come to this conclusion: For 2011, Obama’s third year in […]
Yesterday Bill Clinton gave some advice to President Obama on his next pick for the Supreme Court: S”But it’s not predictable. I’d like to see him put someone in there, late 40s, early 50s, on the court and someone with a lot of energy for the job.” Clinton said his wife would be “great” at […]
Morning Joe is still stuck on Massa. Really, it appears that Joe has some inner regret for not being one of Massa’s targets, but something they have been saying has really got me going. All morning they have been comparing Eric Massa to Mark Foley. Massa is accused of making sexual advances towards male staffers […]
Yesterday on Meet the Press John Boehner continued the same old line that President Obama was the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate. He also seems to be throwing out the idea of ever working together: MR. GREGORY: Does he have a point? REP. BOEHNER: No. If, if you think about what I said, […]
It really isn’t a lesson, but more of a reminder. Democrats suck at politics. To the Democrats out there acting shocked over the Brown win, all I can say is “wake up!” We don’t need to turn back the pages of history more than a few months to remind us how bad Democrats are at […]
I really like Chris Dodd and want him to start pushing his bill through to fix the FPL, but news like this really makes me angry with him too: Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Wednesday ripped the Senate’s “newest members” for the lack of comity in the upper chamber. In a floor speech Wednesday night, […]
TPM has been digging deep into the apparent implosion at The Washington Times and this latest revelation is just creepy: It’s starting to seem like everything we’ve reported so far about the implosion at Washington’s conservative paper, The Washington Times, was only the pre-implosion. The OpEd page editor is now filing complaint with EEOC alleging […]
The detail of Sanford’s little lover’s rendezvous in Argentina keep emerging. The latest round shows that Sanford’s office truly didn’t know where he was and couldn’t contact him: Gov. Mark Sanford’s chief of staff, Scott English, called the governor’s cell phones 15 times during the governor’s secret trip to Argentina to visit his lover last […]
It doesn’t matter what President Obama does. The only thing that matters to Republicans is to oppose it: The National Republican Trust PAC, currently the best-funded and most aggressive independent Republican group, has dispatched a round of letters to Republican senators threatening to go after senators who back President Obama’s judicial nominees. “I encourage you […]
Bipartisanship is another name for date rape –Grover Norquist quoted in the Denver Post 2003. This was right after the Republicans took control of Senate in 2002. It seems back then that the Republicans had no desire for bipartisanship. Something else Norquist said in the same interview: We are trying to change the tones in […]