President Obama talks with Political Director Patrick Gaspard in Madison, Wis., Sept. 28, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) –Democratic committees are retreating behind a new firewall, cutting back funding for Steve Driehaus in Ohio, Florida’s Suzanne Kosmas and Kathy Dahlkemper in Pennsylvania. –An ABC News/Yahoo! poll finds 85% of Americans are angry [...]
Alaska Politics Blog : Miller’s news conference…, posted with vodpod Many of the Tea Party candidates thus far this cycle have been declining to speak to the mainstream media, while still doing local press. Alaska’s Joe Miller, though, is bucking the trend: he’s still speaking to national media (just before this press conference he was [...]
Kentucky’s Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul is in a spot of trouble over a comment he made about how to shore up Medicare. Speaking at a town hall in September 2009, Paul said “a $2,000 Medicare deductible would solve a huge amount of problems.” His Democratic opponent, Jack Conway, has seized on the statement, highlighting [...]
A few weeks ago, some readers were miffed when Rob Portman, the Republican Senate candidate in Ohio, questioned stimulous money going to Head Start because it wasn’t succeeding very well as a program. Apparently, the Obama Administration agrees with Portman’s assessment–anyone familiar with this crucial but under-achieving program would agree–and has launched a major Head [...]
I’ve been caught up in catching up with my life after a month on the road, so I’m shamefully late in congratulating the Nobel Committee for its selection of Liu Xiaobo for its Peace Prize this year. The Chinese government is going berserk, of course, snubbing the Norwegians and putting the laureate’s wife under house [...]
For those who haven’t been following along, Manchin is the Democrat.
Paul Krugman’s column yesterday offered an important reality check on political cant about the economic stimulus plan Barack Obama signed last year: more than 40 percent of the stimulus, Krugman reminds us, consisted of tax cuts. (It’s a little surprising that Obama doesn’t hit this point more often. According to PolitiFact, after all, he can [...]
I spent the last few days in West Virginia looking at the special election for Robert Byrd’s Senate seat. Two-term Governor Joe Manchin, a Democrat who until recently was leading by double digits, has seized on a TV ad put up by the independent expenditure arm of the National Republican Senatorial Committee that features some [...]
The two candidates duking out a personal battle for Obama’s old Senate seat — Democratic State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias and five-term Republican Congressman Mark Kirk — took their beefs to the set of Meet the Press this morning. Sitting in the D.C. studio, the two candidates spoke nary a word before the segment and twiddled [...]
