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By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyI was on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" this morning opposite Bill Press. Click here to watch. ...
The Week in Blog: Everybody Hates Arlen
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyEach week Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss what's happening in the blogosphere. Check out this week's edition ... Turmoil in the conservative Twitterverse (08:03) Specter's defection leads to finger-pointing on the right (07:43) Liberals welcome Specter with less-than-open arms (04:08) How many GOP apostates are there left to kick out? (04:26) Joe Biden's gaffe (or ploy) on swine flu precautions (07:44) Obama reads blogs, but is he leaving lib bloggers out in the cold? (08:24) ...
The Week in Blog: Snoring Pug Edition
By Matt Lewis - Politics Daily'The Week in Blog' (featuring Bill Scher) is up. The Week in Blog: Snoring Pug Edition Lip-locked lesbians on YouTube (and other TWiB homework) (08:43) Matt vs. Limbaugh on Obama vs. pirates (07:41) Obama and the politics of luck (08:24) Are Americans becoming more or less angry about taxes? (07:50) Could high taxes drive the wealthy out of the country? (03:14) Conservative bloggers fear a knock on the door in the night (07:26) ...
The Week in Blog: Conservative Milk, Tea, Vitamin Water
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWill liberals crash conservatives' tax-day tea parties? (03:58) Bill: Most protests don't achieve their goal (06:07) RedState declares war on Virginia GOP chairman (06:02) New political pragmatism from the online right? (02:34) Enviro bloggers smack George Will for global warming denialism (08:20) Dark horse candidates for 2012 GOP presidential nominee (05:27) ...
The Double Standard Debate on Banks, Autos
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyI was on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue last night with David Shuster and Firedoglake's Jane Hamshire. Here's the segment on the double standard between the auto industry and the banking industry (my part comes in at about the 3:48 mark): Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy ... One note, regarding the unfairness of this, I mistakenly said "Lehman Bros. gets bailed out and others fail" -- obviously,it was the other way around (Lehman Bros. was allowed to fail while everyone else was bailed out) -- though the point that government is picking winners and losers ...
The Week in Blogs...
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyMy latest "Week in Blogs" featuring Bill Scher of Liberal Oasis is out: Arlen Specter foils liberals by defecting on card check (06:14) Sorry Arlen, the right still kinda hates you (04:33) Judd Gregg for VP-or P? (03:13) Analyzing the Obama teleprompter meme (05:39) Should Dems use parliamentary tricks to get health care reform? (08:37) Will Obama spark the Ayn Rand revolution? (03:43) ...
The Week in Blog: Bill and Matt's Excellent Adventure
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyI was on Bloggingheads TV last night with Bill Scher of Liberal Oasis, discussing ... Conservative split: squishy elites vs. true-blue bloggers (05:44) The Palin dinner no-show scandal (03:29) Liberal bloggers call for Geithner's head (04:10) Dissecting Evan Bayh's moderate machinations (08:53) It's hard out here for a governor (05:02) AIG bonus backlash as the key to bank nationalization (04:26) ...
Discussing Michael Steele with Contessa Brewer and Carlos Watson on MSNBC
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe Huff Post's Roy Sekoff and I were on MSNBC today, discussing the whole Michael Steele controversy with Contessa Brewer and Carlos Watson. .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px;} .msnbcLinks a:link, .msnbcLinks a:visited {color: #5799db !important;} .msnbcLinks a:hover, .msnbcLinks a:active {color:#CC0000 !important;} Visit ...
Obama's Missed Opportunity
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyI was on FOX's The Live Desk yesterday, discussing the stimulus and stem cell research. Essentially, my argument is that -- not only is the notion of the stimulus philosophically flawed -- but Obama also mishandled it politically by allowing Congressional Democrats to "lard" it up, and thus taint it ... ...
Rahm Emanuel's Heart of Darkness?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe lefty bloggers have been all over me lately over a comment I made on TV recently, regarding the conversations between Rahm Emanuel and Blago. Clearly, there is a concerted attempt on the left to step-up efforts to defend Obama from any hint of accusations he had anything to do with the Blago scandal. Depending on which lefty blogger you read, I'm either ...1). An idiot who doesn't realize Hawaii is part of the United States, or...2). An evil genius who is intentionally insinuating Obama is not "American" enough...Obviously, I can't be both. In this case, I would say I'm neither (but hey, ...
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