In the Arena

Election Road Trip, Day 16: The Mind of a Green Machine

Colorado Springs, Co. traveling companions: none event: lunch with Captain Jeremiah Ellis and 1st sgt. Jack Robison I couldn’t pass through Colorado Springs without looking up Captain Jeremiah Ellis and First Sgt. Jack Robison, with whom I’d embedded in Kandahar Province last April. Their unit, Dog Company of the 1/12 of the 4th Infantry division, [...]

Summers to Leave White House

The release, moments after Bloomberg moved the story: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release                                              September 21, 2010 Dr. Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the National Economic Council, to Return to Harvard University at the End of the Year WASHINGTON – Dr. Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the National Economic [...]

Quote of the Day: Bill Clinton on Anger

He tells the Daily Beast: Disgruntled Obama supporters planning to sit out the midterms are making “a horrible mistake,” [Clinton] said. “Like everything else you do when you’re mad, there’s an 80 percent change you’re making a mistake. You’ll get the exact result you don’t want.” Good advice. Unfortunately Clinton was utterly unable to heed [...]

1,000 Words: The Big O

Ohio. UPDATE: Comment of the day goes to liberalmeltdown: Adults: 0 Kids: 8 Touchdown plus safety.

She’s Baaaaaaack!

Most Everything You Need to Know About Health Reform in 9 Minutes

Despite all the explainers and the charts that have been published in the past year – including in this space – to explain health care reform, Americans remain utterly confused about how the authors of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) intend for it to work. It’s no secret why. Politicians and pundits have muddied the [...]

The Lady GaGa Effect

Doesn’t seem to be much of one, at least not on Maine Republican Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. MSNBC is reporting that Democrats don’t expect to find the 60 votes needed to break a Republican filibuster this afternoon and overturn the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military. Here‘s the [...]

More on the Rove GOP Money Machine

Witchcraft is fun to talk about, but when it comes to the outcome of the midterm elections almost nothing is more important than the potential impact of big-spending Republican independent groups nationwide. In the new  issue of TIME I explain this network of independent groups that are blasting Democrats on the airwaves nationwide, with the [...]

Morning Must Reads: Cerebral

–Democrats are still looking for GOP votes on the defense authorization (plus DADT repeal and DREAM Act). Olympia Snowe sounds like a no. –Max Boot argues the military isn’t a bad place for motivated immigrants to end up. –The major Democratic committees out-raised their Republican counterparts in August. But, as Crowley’s story illustrated last week, independent expenditure [...]

Miller, McAdams Focus Their Fire on Murkowski

Wasilla, Alaska There will be two names on the ballot in the Alaska race for U.S. Senate this November: Joe Miller and Scott McAdams. But in events today for both those candidates the 800-pound gorilla in the room was incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski, who announced Friday she will seek a write in bid to keep [...]