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Will they be celebrating the new Gallup numbers in the White House tonight? Will Master Rahm be inviting Larry Summers and Tim Geithner? by Ken Okay, it's official now: Gallup has the president's approval rating down to 49 percent . ("President becomes fourth fastest to slip below the ...
White House
Timothy Geithner
Larry Summers
Barack Obama
Economic Meltdown
Yesterday something truly startling happened. The American people won and the Establishment lost-- IN CONGRESS. That never happens. Alan Grayson and Ron Paul teamed up and made it happen-- against the wishes of their party leaders and, more important, against the wishes of the big banks that ...
Congress
Federal Reserve
Ron Paul
Bud Day
Appropriations Committee
July 30, 1965, LBJ signs Medicare bill, Truman looks on, Republicans start plotting how to kill the program Yesterday the House voted 243-183 , only one Republican, Michael Burgess (R-TX) joining the Democrats, to pass John Dingell's Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 (H.R. 3961). ...
Congress
Yesterday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted 23-12 to pass the Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act, which would extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal government workers. Next step: the full House, where it is expected to pass, then the Senate and ...
Congress
Appropriations Committee
Aaron Schock
Paul Hodes
People who live in nice houses like this have pretty tulips-- and the clout to get out of paying their fair share of taxes The battle over the Estate Tax is heating up again. The simplistic way to look at is that the defenders of wealthy elites-- the Republican Party and DLC and Blue Dog ...
Congress
Parker Griffith
Warren Buffett
You wanna guess what side these two dour a-holes are on? A friend of mine does policy work for Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) and right now they're working on something that doesn't sound very sex-- but that touches almost every single person in the country-- interchange rates. Those are the fees ...
Congress
Christopher J. Dodd
Chris Matthews
Thad Cochran
To be kind, Obama's DNC head, Tim Kaine, isn't exactly from the Howard Dean mold and doesn't quite represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. Generally speaking, the outgoing governor of Virginia represents the Establishment or, in Paul Krugman's words about his kind of Democrats, ...
Congress
Tim Kaine
Palin & Karzai trading tips on voter fraud Despite her massive unpopularity-- and status, to non-teabaggers, as a rather embarrassing and borderline outré vaudeville act-- Sarah Palin's proclamation that Obama is wrong on Afghanistan won't make it any easier for him to be perceived as ...
World
Sarah Palin
Afghanistan
Foreign Policy
General David Petraeus
"[A] battle is on right now between the Right and Left to offer an enraged America a populist way to channel its justifiable anger. . . . [A] cautious and sometimes corrupt Democratic Party has become the Washington Establishment via its overwhelming wins in 2006 and 2008. That means it ...
White House
Barack Obama
-by NOAH Well, it just seems that President Obama can’t leave our country without the Republikook Party spitting and foaming at the their whining gangrenous pieholes about some sort of imaginary continuing “Apology Tour” that our President is supposedly undertaking in order to turn us into a ...
World
Karl Rove
Fox News
Rushin' to get his makeup right, Sessions left his sheet & hood home After spitefully holding his nomination up from nearly nine months, the dominant obstructionist wing of the Republican Senate caucus was dealt a severe setback today when even the most reactionary and cowardly Democrats who ...
Congress
Jeff Sessions
Pete Sessions
The far right has never been friendly territory for Jews It's always a little jarring to watch the small but determined handful of befuddled Jews flirting-- for one reason or another-- with the right-wing elements that have been trying to exterminate them since Biblical times. There were ...
Congress
When it comes to manipulating a terror-prone public with lies and obfuscations, Rudy gives Rush a run for his money. by Ken We say we want pols who "say what they mean and mean what they say," but we really don't, do we? Americans want lies. They demand lies. They want lies that will make ...
Congress
Rush Limbaugh
Tom Price
Joe Lieberman
Rudy Giuliani
Has Obama Got What It Takes To Say No To The Military-Industrial Complex Eisenhower Warned Us About?
Last month 25% of Brits polled wanted their troops out of Afghanistan asap. Last week it was 63% who had figured out this war was useless. And now the figure is 71% . This weekend the U.S. media was trumpeting the decision by Germany to send another 100 troops to give a hand to the ...
World
Afghanistan
Barack Obama
That's Jonathan Farnick on the right Melissa Bean never joined the Blue Dog caucus; she's too smart for painting that kind of a target on his back. But her record in Congress has been just as bad-- and in some cases worse-- than most Blue Dogs. The Democratic darling of the Chamber of ...
Congress
Melissa Bean
photo by Jean Baptiste Mondino, 2009 The Museum of the City Of New York just put out a compendium of the 400 most essential people in NYC's 400 year history. It's quite an inspiring list and one of the names on it is Patti Smith, someone I first met long before she had recorded anything. I ...
Congress
Lamar Smith
Huffington Post
This weekend we looked, sadly, at Tom Perriello's failed balancing act between his attempts to do the right thing-- he was one of the only red district freshmen who voted for cap and trade, and he did vote for the healthcare bill-- and his attempts to curry enough favor with GOP extremists to ...
Congress
Glenn Beck
Virginia Foxx
Henny Penny prepares for battle, along with Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey & Turkey Lurkey Imagine Dick Cheney shot up with lots of botox and wearing a blond wig. Or just watch the video from Fox yesterday morning: I had already started writing this piece before I saw that ...
White House
Dick Cheney
Bud Day
Republican National Committee
Last week, after talking a little bit about our media strategy for the new Blanche Lincoln TV ad (see below) we got a lot of e-mails asking why we were spending money in Memphis, Tennessee and Springfield, Missouri. I want to clear that up. The way the cable systems cover Arkansas is by ...
Congress
Health care
Blanche Lincoln
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