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Scott Brown and the Palin Path: Will He Choose Brassy or Boring?
Democrats Leave Health Care Behind for Jobs, Toyota, Gays in Military
Murtha Turned Against War, but Not Grab-While-You-Can Politics
Rep. John Murtha, Advocate for Pa. District, Pentagon, Dies at 77
Liz Christman, Enemy of the Passive Voice, Who Rocked Some Jaunty Hats
Is Obama's Search for 'Common Ground' Real?- Tim Tebow's Brilliant Fake Leads to Pro-Life Score
'Snowmageddon' in D.C. -- The Politics, Talk Shows and Snowball Fights Go On
Sarah Palin Serves Tea Party Delegates Red Meat and Certainty
My Left Breast Put Fancy TSA Scanner to the Test
From a Grass Roots Tea Party, a PAC Blooms
At Nashville Tea Party: Saving the Country, Waiting for Palin
Snowpocalypse: This Column Has a Snow Day
By David CornSnowpocalypse was fun -- that is, until our power went out and the heat vanished. That was two days ago. So I've been contending with the basics of survival: food and shelter. In between all that, I've been shoveling tons of snow. Our neighborhood was placed low on the priority list for Pepco, the power company. I guess we just don't have political pull. (Rep. Chris Van Hollen, don't count on this precinct next time.) And more snow is predicted for Tuesday night. A few years ago, a Pepco service guy -- a contractor -- complained to me that the utility had shed itself of many of its in-house ...
Why Question Time Is Right for Obama, House GOPers and Washington
By David Corn
At Wednesday's White House daily briefing, I asked deputy press secretary Bill Burton if the Obama administration would say yes to the cross-partisan coalition of bloggers, commentators, politicos and techies calling on the president and GOP congressional leaders to commit to regular, frequent and public Q&As between the commander-in-chief and the opposition party. (I have a special interest in the matter, as one of the organizers of this barely organized effort.) Burton, no doubt, had anticipated the query, and he noted that White House strategist David Axelrod had already maintained that ...
Bloggers Launch Campaign for More Obama-GOP Question Time
By David Corn Last Friday afternoon, President Obama and House Republicans made history. At the GOPers' issues retreat in Baltimore, the president fielded sharp questions from the Republican legislators on critical issues: health care reform, taxes, the budget, the stimulus, energy, government transparency, earmarks, and other matters. The exchanges, broadcast live on the three cable news networks (with Fox News cutting away in the middle), were substantive and civil. The session -- a far cry from the soundbite sallies of conventional political discourse -- was gripping to watch. (You can see the video ...
Can Palin Save McCain's Political Life? Should She?
By David Corn
When John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate, he did the not-yet-launched Tea Party movement a hefty favor by elevating to national prominence a woman who could lead this disparate band of grassroots conservative activists and give a powerful voice to their protests and passions. ("Death panels!") And how do the Tea Partiers pay back McCain? By trying to send him to the old folk's home. Tea Party types have rushed to support the campaign of former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, who is challenging McCain in Arizona's Republican senatorial primary. Hayworth, who years ago left the House to ...
Obama's State of the Union: Reset, Please
By David Corn
After the State of the Union address -- even one in which the president decried pundits -- it's always time for insta-analysis. In case you haven't gotten your fill, here's my take, first posted at MotherJones.com. Already, folks in the Twittersphere have accused me of being too harsh. Feel free to chime in below, in the comments. In the days after the Democratic defeat in Massachusetts, President Barack Obama held a town hall meeting, delivered a weekly address, and sent out a Twitter message repeating over and over that he has been "fighting" for the middle class. In his first State of the ...
Obama's Two Populisms: A Muddy Message?
By David Corn
There are essentially two types of populism. One slams Big Bidness; the other, Big Guv'mint. These two attacks can be merged, especially when government officials and corporate bigwigs are in cahoots. But often, liberal populists blast away at corporate evildoers (such as Wall Streeters) who screw consumers and exert undue influence on the political system, and conservative populists train their fire on money-wasting public officials who govern for their own sake and exploit their derived-from-the-people power. In recent days, Obama pulled a leftward populist pivot, proposing new taxes and ...
Test Fight for Obama's New Populism: Consumer Financial Protections
By David CornSo President Obama wants to be a populist fighter? In the past two weeks, he's proposed slapping the big banks with a bailout tax and implementing restrictions on financial institutions' casino-like activities. He'll probably have to fight like hell to make all this happen, for Big Finance and its lobbyists are not going to play dead or play nice. And there's another important battle-line where Obama may have to engage in rough combat with the big-money crowd: establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. The CFPA is the brainchild of Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren, who heads ...
Obama's Bipartisan Cred Isn't the Issue
By David CornThe White House briefing room is ground zero for a politerati fetish: bipartisanship. Sometimes it seems reporters at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. are obsessed with bipartisanship -- particularly whether President Obama is acting in a bipartisan manner. The day after Republican Scott Brown's upset win in the Massachusetts Senate race, several White House correspondents grilled press secretary Robert Gibbs on whether his boss would now proceed in a more bipartisan -- and compromising -- fashion, noting that Obama had not made good on his campaign vow to transcend the routine political bickering in ...
Brown's Win: Rise of the Tea Partiers, or Alienation of the Indie Voters?
By David Corn
On Tuesday night, just as votes were starting to be counted in Massachusetts, I was at a reception in Washington, and several labor officials were downcast, expecting the worst in the Senate race. One told me that she had been at a Democratic phone bank the other night, called a Democrat in Massachusetts to urge him to vote for Martha Coakley, and received a tirade in return: "I'm a Democrat, but I'm voting for Scott Brown. I want to send a message. Washington doesn't care about us. And Obama is surrounded by Geithner and Summers." This official tried to calm down this Democratic Brown voter ...
Obama's Year One: Changing Washington Is Tough
By David CornMight it be considered Shakespearean that President Obama could wake up on Wednesday morning, the one-year anniversary of his historic inauguration, and face a political world undone by his party's loss of Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in Massachusetts? The almost cosmic conjunction of Obama's first-year mark and the politerati-fixating face-off between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown has set off an avalanche of whither-O appraisals. These assessments will take a particular turn if Brown, whose campaign has been fueled by tea (carpet-) baggers, denies Coakley the EMK post. But ...
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