The White House has struggled to keep the grassroots momentum behind the Obama For America. The last time Obama spoke directly to the troops over YouTube, it looked like this:
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Obama might just as well have been giving a eulogy. Yesterday, Organizing for …
As Adam notes, I have a Time.com piece up saying that the White House is preparing for Rahm Emanuel’s departure as chief of staff as soon as early October. There is no doubt that Emanuel now finds himself in a tight spot: Many of the class of 2006 that he helped get elected to Congress are on the ropes in this midterm election, yet …
–Bob Woodward’s upcoming book has leaked and it’s full of every bit of White House palace intrigue one would expect from the Washington Post icon. Also, plenty of intra-administration sniping:
Mr. Biden called Mr. Holbrooke “the most egotistical bastard I’ve ever met.” A variety of administration officials expressed scorn for
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Being a difficult, occasionally bullying, intellectual powerhouse, Larry Summers has always drawn fierce attacks: political, personal or otherwise. And his time at the White House has been no different: whether for backers of outgoing CEA chief Christine Romer on the left or former OMB head Peter Orzag on the right, Summers became the …
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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 release, moments after Bloomberg moved the story:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release September 21, 2010
Dr. Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the National Economic Council, to
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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 …
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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 waters with dishonest …
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 Portland …
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 …
–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 …
