So what are Democratic members of Congress facing out there, as they return to their districts in the wake of passing sweeping health care legislation? Are they encountering angry mobs shouting “repeal and replace”? Are they being showered with bouquets and greeted as liberators?
2012 Election
Morning Must Reads: Steeled
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–Michael Steele’s woes atop the RNC are being compounded, not helped, by a handful of high-profile resignations, including chief of staff Ken McKay. Rather than looking like he’s getting his house in order, the departures inevitably lead to a series of stories citing the recent risque spending flap …
Morning Must Reads: Let’s Roll
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–Democrats have been careful not to appear gleeful over promising economic news as the jobs market continues to struggle. Cautious optimism ruled the day Sunday even as the White House economic team reacted to a very positive unemployment report.
–Unemployment woes are
White House to Karzai: Check Yourself
The White House isn’t just turning the other cheek to Hamid Karzai, though they’re not yet throwing counter-punches either. Following the Afghan president’s allegations of dastardly foreign meddling and fraud, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told a gaggle of reporters in his office this morning that the administration wants Karzai to …
GOP Party Like It’s 1994?
Not so much. Today, I look at five reasons why this cycle is different from 1994… so far.
TIME 100
As most of our readers know, every year we do a big dead tree edition on the 100 people that mattered most in the past 12 months. Today, the 200 nominees are up. Let the voting for the most influential person of 2009 begin. Will it be President Obama? Sarah Palin? Nancy Pelosi? Katheryn Bigelow? Rahul Singh? Sandra Bullock? And, yes, as …
Morning Must Reads: About That “Senator Program”
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–John Broder and Clifford Krauss, among others, scratch their heads over offshore drilling.
–Tom Schaller says everybody’s a bit right.
–China signals willingness to play ball on Iran sanctions.
–Sino-American relations warm.
–The RNC gets a potential rival.
–The …
Stop the Presses! The DNC Spent $13k at Lucky Strike!
Like Politico’s Ben Smith, I was sent by Republican National Committee Spokesman Doug Heye a long list of Democratic National Committee expenditures. I was hesitant to post them (they are below) because the RNC couldn’t provide the Federal Election Commission links to each of the searches and the DNC disputed at least one item: the …
KBH Is Staying Put
Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson had pledged to resign her Senate seat in her bid for Rick Perry’s governor’s mansion. She lost the GOP gubernatorial primary last month to Perry and today announced that, in fact, she will not resign — as first reported by Reid Wilson over at Hotline. She intends to serve out her term which expires in …
Coffee Talk with Democracy Corps
Democratic gurus James Carville and Stanley Greenberg were the guests at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast this morning, where they discussed the results of a Democracy Corps poll on the deficit. The results from the survey aren’t likely to inspire jaw drops: 93% of the 1,000-plus voters polled say they view the deficit as a major …
Morning Must Reads: Shore Thing
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–Obama will announce he’s opening coastal waters to offshore drilling today.
–The New York Times has a handy-dandy map:
–The Greens gripe, but get Bristol Bay.
–The left worries that the White House just jumped the gun on concessions for a climate bill.
–The White …
Morning Must Reads: Trust
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–Dexter Filkins and Mark Landler describe a growing deficit of trust between the White House and Hamid Karzai.
–Obama prods him in an interview with Matt Lauer on “Today.”
–AHIP caved fairly quickly to the administration’s needling over pre-existing conditions for minors. The …
Palin Gears Up The Midterm Machine
Fresh off her re-election rally for John McCain in Arizona and Tea Party soirée in Searchlight, Sarah Palin is endorsing a trio of Iraq War veterans running for the House. The three Republican candidates are looking to unseat one- or two-term Democrats in competitive districts, and each has been touted by the National Republican …