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Huntsman, defending Obama, blasts the press.
Jessica Valenti says Palin is the sexist.
AP writers got a bonus for getting her book.
Candidates can go back to flying on donors' jets.
Virginia's still purple.
Way more people thought Bush was illegitimate.
Petraeus gets a political ...
White House
Barack Obama
Sarah Palin
Virginia Foxx
General David Petraeus
Jesse Jackson
Artur Davis
The anti-union blog Labor Pains gets its hands on another SEIU internal memo, this one detailing the proper language for talking health care, as suggested by pollster Celinda Lake.
So: "sliding scale" is in, and "free" is out. "Guaranteed" is in, ...
Other
Celinda Lake
The political website t-shirt CafePress announced today that it would remove all designs referring to Psaslm 108:9.
Brad Hirschfield noted the rise of the meme the other day, and quotes the prayer:
"May his days be few, may another take over his position." And before anyone ...
White House
Barack Obama
Another somewhat odd scene from Noblesville, posted to Palin's Facebook page .
(via a not entirely respectful Rumproast )
White House
Sarah Palin
politico.com - 17 hours ago
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The logistics seem to have fallen apart a
bit at Palin's second Indiana stop, in Noblesville, where
she left behind a crowd chanting, "Sign our books!" One man can be heard yelling, "Quittin' on the job." Reports a local TV ...
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Spurned in Noblesville
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Think Progress
found this 17 hours agofound this
Kay Bailey Hutchison tries to turn a liability -- her decision to run for Governor from the Senate -- into an asset in her first ad.
Congress
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Lisa Lerer explores what happened to what appeared to be John McCain's signature bipartisan cause, which he now refers to as "cap and tax."
Congress
John McCain
politico.com - 18 hours ago
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politico.com —
The president has a cameo in a PSA
for volunteerism and exercise, to air during the Thanksgiving
football games.
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Obama on Thanksgiving
The Republican National Committee just blasted out an "urgent call to action" to its large email list, asking supporters to "call Sens. Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln TODAY and tell them to vote against Harry Reid’s liberal bill when it comes up for a vote on ...
Congress
Blanche Lincoln
Republican National Committee
Bill Nelson
Harry Reid
Nancy Pelosi
Bill Kristol :
Still, who could help McCain beat back a populist conservative challenger? Sarah Palin. I predict that Palin will come to Arizona next summer to campaign for McCain, will make an impassioned case for him, and will help him win. She will thereby repay McCain for his confidence ...
White House
Sarah Palin
politico.com - 20 hours ago
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Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, a Republican source says,
sent written questions to Attorney General Eric Holder following
yesterday's meeting, going after the National Iranian American Council, a group drawing conserative ire because it advocates a ...
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Kyl presses for NIAC inquiry
politico.com - 16 hours ago
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All resemblances to parody are, apparently, unintentional.
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Tea Party, the movie
It's on :
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina lawmakers say they'll formally consider the possible impeachment of Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Harrison tells The Associated Press he will gather a seven-member panel Tuesday to ...
World
Mark Sanford
Argentina
President Obama's job approval numbers will dip below 50% for the first time today in Gallup's tracking, the service tweets .
His approval numbers have bounced down to the 50% mark several times, driven by weaker support from independents and Republicans, but hadn't crossed it.
Worth ...
White House
Gallup Poll
Ronald Reagan
Lincoln appears set to vote to bring the health care bill to the floor, and Nelson and Landrieu seem set to vote the same way.
Meanwhile, the generally reliable Augusta Insider thinks Snowe will vote "no."
Congress
Blanche Lincoln
Bill Nelson
Olympia J. Snowe
Health care
Organizing for America's Mitch Stewart emails supporters:
Right now, Sarah Palin is on a highly publicized, nationwide book tour, attacking President Obama and his plan for health reform at every turn.
It's dangerous. Remember, this is the person who coined the term "Death Panels" ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Organizing For America
MoveOn keeps waging the public option wars, going up with this anti-trigger spot in Maine and Arkansas.
Other
A rare benefit of being a Brooklyn based political reporter: Michael Crowley tweets , "It's not every night you sit down in a Brooklyn restaurant ( Po ) and notice a Supreme Court justice (Sotomayor) two tables away."
"She left her purse on a chair; stern-faced security guys ...
Law
Sonia Sotomayor
The New York Times
CNN rounds up the advice by operatives close to Rudy, Huckabee, and Romney to a preliminary RNC session on the 2012 calendar.
The quick version: Rudy's guy (Mike DuHaime) would like to diminish the influence of Iowa; Huck's guy (Chip Saltsman) is defending Iowa; and Mitt's envoy, Beth Myers, ...
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Mitt Romney
CNN
Republican National Committee
Rudy Giuliani
Vogel dives deep :
The grass-roots activists powering the movement have become increasingly divided on core questions such as whether to focus their efforts on shaping policy debates or elections, work on a local, regional, state or national level or closely align itself with the Republican ...
