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“We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every day, and every week, until November 2010. Our goal is to bring down approval numbers for Pelosi and for House Democrats. That will take ...
newsbusters.org - 3/14/2009
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newsbusters.org —
It has been only ten days since the
New York Times house conservative, David Brooks, suddenly discovered...
that "Barack Obama is not who we thought he was." As a result, the White House sent out a special team of four high level officials to ...
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'General' David Brooks Sings Obama Love Ballad
sistertoldjah.com - 3/8/2009
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sistertoldjah.com —
The UK media, surprisingly, has been all over
President Obama the last week or so after the...
bungled handling of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s visit to the US by Obama officials - and Obama himself. The Telegraph has apparently discovered ...
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Brit media figures out what the American media refuses ...
newsbusters.org - 3/6/2009
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The Sideshow —
... moderate Democrats Tuesday afternoon he offered a statement of solidarity. 'I am a New Democrat,' he told the New Democrat Coalition, according to two sources at the White House session. The group is comprised of centrist Democratic members of the House, who support free trade and a muscular foreign policy but are more moderate than the conservative Blue Dog coalition." So, he's happy to stake his claim with the right-wing Dems - and not with the rest of us. I'm so thrilled. (via) ...
Deja Vu All Over Again
Suburban Guerrilla —
Oh look! Our new president is not quite a Blue Dog - just Blue-ish. Change you can trust! [via]
President Barack Obama firmly resists ideological labels, but at the end of a private meeting with a group of moderate Democrats Tuesday afternoon he offered a statement of solidarity.
“I am a New Democrat,” he told the New Democrat Coalition, according to two sources at the White House session.
The group is comprised of centrist Democratic members of the House, who support free trade and a muscular foreign policy but are more ...
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thedemocraticstrategist.org 3/3/2009 — David Brooks penned a column for The New York Times today that is destined to become a classic of its type. His editors seem to think so as well, titling his essay: "A Moderate Manifesto." Its main thrust is to...
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Douthat To NYT: Not Just A Step Up, A Breakthrough
huffingtonpost.com 3/12/2009 — To add to the sorts of compliments that he finds to be "undeserved," I think the New York Times has made an exceedingly wise and, frankly, exciting choice to tap The Atlantic 's Ross Douthat as its new op-ed columnist . It's an upgrade in so many ...
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