Jay Carney

I wrote a short piece for the new print mag about the stars aligning to give Obama a real shot at getting health care reform through Congress.

From Obama’s 60 Minutes interview, this seemingly obvious but all-too-rare, refreshingly non-ideological declaration about how best to govern:

We’ve gotta come up with solutions that are true to our times and true to this moment. And that’s gonna be our job. I think the basic principle that government has a role to play in kick starting

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I have a piece that went up this morning anticipating today’s meeting in Chicago between the president-elect and the man he beat on Nov. 4.

Are conservatives really so blind to Gov. Sarah Palin’s true liabilities that they believe this is the reason she was mauled in the press? How appalling. Could it be, instead, that in her first interviews as the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, Palin revealed herself to be less knowledgeable about national and international affairs than …

I also have a piece in the election special on McCain’s campaign, and his future now that it’s over.

I have a piece up about Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s choice for White House chief of staff.

Whether they end up with 56 seats, 57, or more, the Democrats in the Senate will control the fate of President Obama’s legislative agenda.

AP tops a story about GOP bloodletting with a quote from Rep. Chris Shays, GOP moderate from Connecticut who co-sponsored Shays-Meehan, the House version of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law. Shays is currently fighting to save his seat. Here’s what he told the Yale Daily News about McCain:

“He has lost his brand as a

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Markos Moulitsas has a post today about the vindication of Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy. He’s right. When Dean launched the project, many thought it was foolhardy. As late as October 2006, top Dem strategists and elected officials were bemoaning the way Dean had spread the party’s money around instead of concentrating it on targets of …

Politico honchos Harris and Vandehei pen a fair assessment of the evidence – and the criticism – that the press in this election cycle has favored Obama and disfavored McCain.

A few things Scherer and I have heard re PersonalShopperGate:

You’ll be shocked to learn that no one at the campaign is happy about this.

You’ll be equally shocked to learn that lots of Republicans outside the campaign are ripped about it. “What a stunning display of incompetence!” one railed to me. “It’s the kind of political …

The Big Ten polling consortium has some shock-and-awe numbers this morning favoring Obama in the midwest, particularly in states like Ohio (+12), Michigan (+22), Minnesota (+19), Wisconsin (+13) and Indiana (+10). (And no, the Indiana number is not a typo!) If these numbers are real and not outliers, they foreshadow a landslide for …

Such was the subject of a McCain campaign conference call today featuring senior foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann and former CIA director Jim Woolsey. The stated purpose of the call was to discuss a Washington Post story this morning which, in a “rather irresponsible and quite outrageous fashion,” said campaign aide Michael …