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Trickle-Down-Size Economics: New Jobless Claims Jump
By David Knowles - Politics DailyMore bad economic news:The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits surged to a 26-year high last week, Labor Department data showed on Thursday, as a deepening recession forced employers to cut back on hirings. The scary thing about this time is that, because of the interconnected nature of our economy, we're all vulnerable. Retirement savings have vanished. Home equity has disappeared. Mass layoffs are everywhere you look. The auto industry is on the brink. And who has spotted a "microtrend" in all of this? Why it's none other than Hillary Clinton's former chief ...
Barack Obama Makes (Another) Bailout Plea for Hillary Clinton
By David Knowles - Politics DailyJoe Biden just sent me an e-mail! Okay, right, by now I've learned not to get all that excited when I check my inbox and find a message from the president-elect, David Plouffe, the VP-to-be, or any of the other gang in that social network known as the new administration. What's interesting, however, about this rather impersonal appeal for cash, is that it comes on behalf of the newly appointed candidate for Secretary of State: Hillary Clinton. Here's the pitch:Our campaign pledged to help Senator Hillary Clinton--one of the vital members of our team and our future Secretary of State--retire ...
The Hillary Memos
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIf you've ever scratched your head and wondered how on Earth Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama, you need look no further than Josh Green's exhaustive post-mortem published in this week's edition of The Atlantic (read it here). What distinguishes this "What went wrong" piece from all the others before it is that Green bases it upon internal memos and e-mails that he obtained from key players within Clinton's campaign. What is revealed is a frenetic, bee-hive full of conflict and in-fighting, and a queen unable to take charge and set a course for the ...
Clinton Memos: Bill Greenlit '3 AM' Ad
By Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily"The Atlantic" magazine has obtained 200 or so internal memos from Hillary Clinton's campaign, which it will publish sometime next week. Politico has some choice morsels in advance, and they paint a revealing picture of a chaotic, tempestuous campaign. While the fact that the Clinton strategy team was a hot mess is news to no-one, the memos do a good job of properly allocating the portions of crow, with big, steaming plates of it going to Mark Penn. One of the more shocking revelations, however, is this:The famous 3 a.m. ad, written by Penn and approved by Clinton, almost didn't run: "In the ...
The End!
By David Knowles - Politics DailyI think there's one thing we can all agree upon about this year's Democratic primary for president: It wasn't boring. In fact, if it was a novel, you'd have to term it a page-turner, and one with no lack of drama. A dizzying number of sub-plots and bit players filled out the narrative: Norman Hsu, Bosnia, Reverend Wright, Bill Clinton, Tony Rezko, the media, 3 a.m., Florida, Michigan, inevitability, assassination, "sweetie", Geraldine Ferraro, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Penn, and the DNC. When you step back from this thing for a moment and consider that the bulk of this happened over a mere six-month ...
A Question on Clinton's Debt: Please Help!
By David Knowles - Politics DailyOne of our devoted readers, Mr. Sandy Clark, sent me a very good question this morning:When Hillary does end her candidacy, does she get back the $22 million she has set aside for the General Election to offset her debt?Clinton's campaign is now an estimated $20 million dollars in the hole. Some commentators speculated that she might be staying in the race so that she could raise money to help re-pay it. Given that she has not managed to bring her debt down following Indiana and North Carolina, it seems fair to say that this theory has been something of a stretch. So, back to Mr. Clark's ...
Clinton Strategists a Hot Mess
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Clinton braintrust has been making news the past few days, and not in a good way. First, there was the revelation that I was righter about Mark Penn than I knew. From Time Magazine: As aides looked over the campaign calendar (last year), chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates. It sounded smart, but as every high school civics student now knows, Penn was wrong: Democrats, unlike the Republicans, apportion their delegates according to vote totals, rather than allowing ...
They'd Fire Mark Penn
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFirst, Clinton loyalist Paul Begala:"I have nothing but contempt for Mr. Penn," said Begala at a New York City breakfast sponsored by the non-profit group Public Agenda. "And for those of us who wanted to see him out from the beginning, it became almost a Rumsfeldian thing. And he is not even fired. He has been demoted. How could this be?"Second, Barack Obama: ...
Bill Clinton, Colombia, and Mark Penn
By David Knowles - Politics DailyMark Penn's recent reassignment within the campaign of Hillary Clinton came after it was learned that Penn's lobbying firm met with the government of Colombia to promote passage of a trade bill which Hillary officially opposes. The appearance of talking out of both sides of your mouth was something that Clinton knew would damage her chances with working class voters in Pennsylvania (and elsewhere), but, oddly, Penn wasn't fired outright for his indiscretion. Why, you may ask, would Clinton keep Penn on the payroll?Well, as Sam Stein writes in The Huffington Post:But within the Clinton ...
Wolfson: Mark Penn is No DiMaggio
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyOn today's Clinton campaign conference call, a reporter asked Howard Wolfson whether strategist Mark Penn would continue to participate in campaign conference calls. Wolfson refused to answer that question, although the Obama campaign reported earlier, on their own call, that Penn had, indeed, taken part in a call earlier today. Wolfson went on to say that Penn would continue to play a part in strategy, but would not be the Chief Strategist. When the reporter followed up by asking what the distinction was, Wolfson likened it to the difference between a Chief editor and a contributing editor. ...
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