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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(April 16) -- American politics is being hijacked by hyperpartisans. We've seen an increase in incivility and outright death threats directed at members of Congress from both parties. Fear and hate are deployed to rally competing factions, dividing our country in the pursuit of political profit. It's not just your imagination. Things are getting worse because the wingnuts are on the attack. What's a wingnut? It's someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum -- the professional partisan, the unhinged activist and the paranoid conspiracy theorist. It is the person ...
Waking up to the news that President Obama had been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, the American media reacted with confusion and skepticism. Many commentators had some reason why the unexpected award reflected poor judgment by the committee or might end up hurting Obama. Some worried that it would fuel the president's critics, who already attack Obama's inexperience and international celebrity. Their alarm proved well-founded as conservative talk radio personalities took to the airwaves Friday. Mark Davis, who hosts a morning show on Dallas' WBAP and writes a weekly column for the Dallas ...
Callers to Michael Smerconish's radio show on Thursday fought through their nerves to ask President Obama about the nuts and bolts of health care reform and other issues. With Smerconish and his crew set up in the Diplomatic Room of the White House, Obama took caller questions on everything from health care reform to cash for clunkers to the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Smerconish led off the questioning, asking about the unprecedented expansion of government into several areas of the economy. Obama said he did not start the intervention into the banking or auto industries. "They were ...
I'm glad Ria brought up Alaska ex-governor Sarah Palin's possible move into radio because I was just reading this bulletin from Paige Albiniak at Broadcasting and Cable Web site, who says the Wasilla native is not feeling the love. ...
Jim Cramer, unlike Rush Limbaugh, cannot be written off as just another right wing talk show host reflexively opposed to all things Obama. Here's how he describes himself today.To be totally out of the closet, I actually embrace every part of Obama's agenda, right down to the increase on personal taxes and the mortgage deduction. I am a fierce environmentalist who has donated multiple acres to the state of New Jersey to keep forever wild. I believe in cap and trade. I favor playing hardball with drug companies that hold up the U.S. government with me-too products....But these are issues that ...
This also is entirely predictable: "Right now there's a great big me-too crowd coming together," said Mike Huckabee who said he wasn't surprised by Mitt Romney's endorsement of John McCain. "There's a lot of the folks sort of in the establishment of the party that is now not wanting to be left out," he said. Romney announced he would be telling his delegates to throw their support behind McCain, but Huckabee argued today Romney can't force them to do so. Unfortunately for Huckabee, he's not the one to make a conservative last stand rally, and he has only himself to blame. Right now he needs ...
Yesterday was supposed to be the day that conservatives and others who are critical of John McCain rallied around Mitt Romney as the answer to keeping him off the ballot. So that plan didn't work out. Instead, Mitt Romney showed some extraordinary weakness. After some tease polling, he still lost California by a huge margin, and he lost in the Northeast to John McCain, and in the South to Mike Huckabee. He did manage to get enough wins to keep going and to keep himself number two in the ballot race. ...
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