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Washington in 60 Seconds: Sharron Angle Comes Courting Lobbyists
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyGood morning, fellow Capitolists! Have you missed your morning roundup of things you didn't know when you woke up? In honor of your fearless leaders' return to Capitol Hill next week and the barn-burning 2010 election season, we're relaunching "Washington in 60 Seconds" until the political season slows down, or until we tire of waking before dawn. Until then, here's what's cooking today in politics and in the Capitol: - Ms. Angle Going to Washington. After hammering Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as "the godfather of lobbyists" for taking more than $500,000 this cycle from corporations' ...
Rep. Joe Wilson Tells Followers: Fill Out Census to Save Feds Money
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRep. Joe Wilson, the conservative South Carolina Republican who shot to prominence last year when he yelled "You lie!" during President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress, has a surprising message for his followers on Twitter -- save the feds a buck by filling out your Census form. "Don't forget to send your Census form back. If you don't, a Census worker will come to your home, costing taxpayers $57," he tweeted Thursday morning. Wilson's pro-Census, but fiscally conservative, guidance for Americans conflicts with several of his fellow conservatives' feelings on the decennial ...
Justice Samuel Alito Mouths 'Not True' During State of the Union
By David Sessions - Politics DailyHe was a bit quieter than Joe Wilson, and didn't quite call President Obama a liar, but Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had his moment of protest during Wednesday night's State of the Union address, the Washington Post reports. As Obama criticized the court's recent decision to allow corporations to spend unlimited money on elections, Alito -- just a few feet away -- appeared to mouth the words "Not true."Obama took issue with the Citizens United decision on the grounds that it would "open the floodgates" for new waves of money to be injected into politics. "With all due deference to ...
Racism: We're Talking About It Now
By Judy Howard Ellis - Politics DailyMary C. Curtis' excellent post about Sen. Harry Reid and matters of race asks the question about whether Americans can have an honest conversation about race. I offer this thought: Maybe the nation is already engrossed in one. First of all, the Obama administration is the epicenter of that conversation. The administration has exposed racism as one of the creepy things that crawl in the basement of politics, along with an array of bigotries. This is the same damp place where white and minority politicians get schooled on how to get minority votes on Sunday morning without really giving ...
Top 5 Most Outrageous Political Videos of 2009
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyPolitics in 2009 was pretty serious business, except when it wasn't. Some serious moments made for amusing parodies; others remind us that there can be an absurd quality to high-profile transgressions, criminal acts, and even death. So, please take a step back from the contentious nature of politics to enjoy some year-end, bipartisan, moments courtesy of YouTube. 1. "Don't Call Me Liz," as re-enacted on Keith Olbermann's show The e-mail chain between Elizabeth Becton (aka "Don't Call me Liz!") -- the scheduler for Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) – and a Democratic lobbyist's assistant was ...
The Top 15 Winners and Losers of 2009
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyWINNERS LOSERS 1. Barack Obama: Inaugurated as the first African- American president in U.S. history, he inherited two wars, the Great Recession, a Democratic Congress with a pent-up agenda, a liberal base with a litany of unrealistic demands, and a hostile Republican Party – and managed to keep his head above water and his famous cool. 1. Nobel Prize Committee: With friends like the geniuses in Oslo, Obama needs no enemies. Awarding the Peace Prize to Obama before he'd learned where the White House cafeteria is located (not to mention committed 35,000 more ...
Political Winners and Losers of 2009
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyMichelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Sonia Sotomayor topped the list of who Americans thought were "political winners" this year while the prize for the biggest losers went to White House gate-crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi, according to a Gallup poll conducted Dec. 11-13. ...
'You Lie': Two Words That Launched $4.4 Million (and Counting)
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyThere's a lot of money in the words "You lie." Since now-famous GOP Rep. Joe Wilson shouted them at Barack Obama during the president's speech to Congress last month, the 2nd Congressional District rematch between Wilson and Democratic challenger Rob Miller has become the richest U.S. House race ever in South Carolina. And this is more than a year before the actual election. Reports from McClatchy newspapers detail the political and financial developments since Wilson's Sept. 9 outburst. Wilson, of Springdale, collected $2.7 million from 50,000 campaign contributions; Miller, of Beaufort, ...
Forget Obama and David Brooks -- Because It Is About Race
By David Corn - Politics DailyRace is the never-ending debate of America. In recent days, former President Jimmy Carter said that the intense opposition to President Barack Obama was fueled by racial bigotry. New York Times columnist David Brooks opined that "race is largely beside the point." He contended that the current attack on Barack Obama was race-free populist rage against the elites in the tradition of Huey Long or Father Coughlin. (He did overlook the inconvenient fact that Coughlin's populism was built on a virulent anti-Semitism.) At Friday's daily White House briefing, press secretary Robert Gibbs declined ...
Video: 'SNL' on How GOP Plotted 'You Lie' Incident
By David Sessions - Politics DailyVideo: "You Lie" Opening from Saturday Night Live "Weekend Update Thursday" ...
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