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The Night They Drove the Tea Partiers Down
The Night They Drove the Tea Partiers Down
FOR all cable news’s efforts to inflate Election 2009 into a cliffhanger as riveting as Balloon Boy, ratings at MSNBC and CNN were flat Tuesday night. But not at Fox News, where the audience nearly doubled its usual prime-time average . That’s what happens when you have a thrilling story to ...
Tea partiers hit Capitol
Tea partiers hit Capitol
politico.com — Capitol Police arrest nine protesters Thursday morning in the Hart Senate office building.... (more) Tea partiers hit Capitol
Exit poll: In Virginia, it's all about the economy
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com — (CNN) - The economy and jobs are the number on issue on the minds of voters in... Virginia, according to data from CNN exit polls Tuesday. Forty-six percent of Virginian voting Tuesday, as Republican Bob McDonnell and Democrat Creigh Deeds faced ... (more) Exit poll: In Virginia, it's all about the economy
Everything You Need To Know About Tonight's Election Spin
Everything You Need To Know About Tonight's Election Spin
tnr.com — I don't usually re-publish emails straight from political parties, but this collection of quotes following the 2001... elections, emailed by the DNC, is pretty telling:   read more (more) Everything You Need To Know About Tonight's Election Spin
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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — ... a Democratic bill, passed by Democrats alone (save one lone Republican, Cao-LA, and I wonder what his email looks like this evening) after considerable and lively debate. Next up is the Senate, the place where health reform traditionally goes to die. It won’t be easy there, either. And while there are many bumps in the road ahead, congratulations are in order tonight for Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats for their work in doing the people’s business. Frank Rich on NY-23 (with cautions to Democrats): If the tea ...

Political Pandering of Ft Hood, New Lebanese Govt
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man — ... Frank Rich Seymour Hersh Lee Siegel “We’re not going to let the system go back to the way it was,” - Timothy Geithner "As the ...

Frank Rich: It's the Big Banks, Mr. President
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed — ... wonder 62 percent of those polled by Hart Associates in late September felt that “large banks” had been helped “a lot” or “a fair amount” by “government economic policies,” but only 13 percent felt the “average working person” had been. Unemployment ranked ahead of the deficit and health care as the No. 1 pocketbook issue in the survey, with 81 percent saying the Obama administration must take more action. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11...

GOP Nazi Rhetoric Continues and Backfires
NJDC Blog — ... anti-Semitism has no place at any GOP event.” Forman also pledged to “take GOP Holocaust comparisons and anti-Semitic statements to the Jewish electorate and to other fair-minded American voters and paint you [GOP] as the party of bigotry and insensitivity toward the Holocaust.” It appears though that right wing use of Holocaust rhetoric and other instances of right wing lunacy are hurting the GOP at the ballot box. Both Paul Krugman and Frank Rich wrote in The New York Times that the right wing’s misconduct, ...

The Richard Hofstadter Drinking Game
Hit & Run — ... ], his pagemate Frank Rich delivered the goods Sunday: "Only if [NY-23] were situated in Dixie — or Utah — could it be a more perfect fit for the narrow American demographic where the McCain-Palin ticket had its sole romps last year.") ...

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