The Obama Victory Reconsidered
The Obama Victory Reconsidered The Obama Victory: How Media, Money and Message Shaped the 2008 Election by Kate Kenski, Bruce W. Hardy, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Oxford University Press, 2010 The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power, by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Oxford University Press, 2010 Barack Obama's presidential election victory [...]
NY Times Focuses on Obama’s Populist Sub Shop Stop in NJ, Skips Glitzy Manhattan Fundraising Tour
NY Times Focuses on Obama’s Populist Sub Shop Stop in NJ, Skips Glitzy Manhattan Fundraising Tour
New York Times reporters David Herszenhorn and Jackie Calmes reported on Obama’s politically calculated visit to the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, N.J. in Thursday’s "Obama Trumpets Party’s Small-Business Bona Fides."
The paper’s political team let Obama [...]
Paul Ryan Schools Chris Matthews on Tax Hikes, Budgets and Economics 101
Paul Ryan Schools Chris Matthews on Tax Hikes, Budgets and Economics 101
Chris Matthews on Monday got a much-needed lesson from Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) on how tax hikes impact the budget as well as the economy.
"Congressman Ryan, is there any tax role for reducing our $1.4 trillion to $1.7 trillion debt this year [...]
JournoList IS a Big Deal: Trying to Control the Message for Liberals (Also, See Who’s on the List)
JournoList IS a Big Deal: Trying to Control the Message for Liberals (Also, See Who’s on the List)
The smarty pants set, breezily dismiss the contents of JournoList, the group made up of hundreds of mainstream journalists, bloggers, activists and Democrat policy wonks. The reasoning goes this way: how is it [...]
CBS: Financial Reform ‘Big Win’ for Obama, Adds to ‘Long List’ of ‘Accomplishments’
CBS: Financial Reform ‘Big Win’ for Obama, Adds to ‘Long List’ of ‘Accomplishments’
On Thursday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric touted the just-passed financial reform bill as a "big win" for President Obama, "as was the passage of health care reform." She then lamented how despite that: "…there are rumblings he’s in big [...]
Japanese Democrats lose big in upper house elections
Japanese Democrats lose big in upper house elections
Economy permently stuck in neutral
by Clifford F. Thies
The ruling, center-left Japanese Democratic Party lost big in the just concluded elections of half of the upper house of their country’s national parliament. Even with its large number of holdovers, the Democrats and their junior coalition partner have lost their [...]
Japanese Voters Reject Ruling Party and Doubling ‘VAT Tax’; AP Calls It a ‘Sales Tax,’ Ignores U.S. Implications
Japanese Voters Reject Ruling Party and Doubling ‘VAT Tax’; AP Calls It a ‘Sales Tax,’ Ignores U.S. Implications
An outraged electorate has just handed Japan’s ruling party its hat in elections for half of the seats in the upper house of that country’s parliament in a direct reversal of election results from a year [...]
Heavy Randian influence on a soon-to-be United States Senator
Heavy Randian influence on a soon-to-be United States Senator
And we’re not talking Rand Paul
From Eric Dondero:
Mike Lee is poised to be the next US Senator from the State of Utah. His election is now virtually secured, having won the GOP primary run-off.
Lee is firmly affiliated with the Tea Party, and has often [...]
OHIO: Kasich increases lead over embattled Democrat Gov. Strickland
OHIO: Kasich increases lead over embattled Democrat Gov. Strickland
From Eric Dondero:
Fantastic news coming out of Ohio. Fiscal Conservative stalwart John Kasich has actually increased his lead over scandal-ridden incumbent Gov. Ted Strickland. Rasmussen reports that Kasich is up by 2 points over a similar poll done in May.
From Rasmussen:
The latest Rasmussen [...]
Chris Matthews Stars in Future Marco Rubio Campaign Commercial
Chris Matthews Stars in Future Marco Rubio Campaign Commercial
UPDATE: It turns out that the future is NOW. This Matthews video is running as a Marco Rubio campaign commercial as of yesterday.
Are you happy with the job that the Obama administration and the Democrats are doing? If so, then vote for Charlie Crist for [...]