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Rebellious Arizona -- the Perfect Venue for Next Week's Tea Party Summit
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyArizona -- with its battles over immigration and its liberal gun laws -- has become something of a poster child for the anti-government movement. Which is why the Tea Party Patriots, the largest tea party group in the country, will hold their American Policy Summit at the Phoenix Convention Center Feb. 25-27. The Tea Party Patriots, which claim more than 3,000 locally organized chapters and more than 15 million supporters nationwide, state on their summit website that they picked Phoenix because the state's tea party invited them and also to support Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's immigration ...
Obama Hate Machine Exploits Egyptian Crisis
By David Corn - Politics DailyIt's been thrilling to watch millions of people rise up and call for free expression and democracy in Egypt. The collective courage of the demonstrators has been inspiring; the apparent spontaneity encouraging. And we could view it live on our computer screens and smartphones. At this point, there's no telling what the as-of-yet nonviolent protests will yield. Political reforms that lead to a diverse democracy? An opening that is exploited by Islamic fundamentalists? Chaos? Rebellions can produce horrible outcomes. But the Egyptian uprising holds plenty of promise -- and is boosting the ...
Bill Clinton Visit to White House: Is Obama Borrowing His 'Triangulation' Strategy?
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyCould President Obama, in his tax compromise with Republicans, be borrowing a page from the book of Bill Clinton, who had some triumphs working with the GOP in Congress during his presidency? Suspicions that Obama is headed toward a "triangulation" strategy grew Friday with word that the 42nd president is due at the White House for a meeting with the 44th. The term triangulation is attributed to onetime Clinton aide Dick Morris, who counseled working with the GOP after the 1994 Republican Revolution swept the GOP into power in the House and Senate after Clinton's rocky first two years in ...
Obama's Compromise: Neither Reaganesque nor Clintonian
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyRegarding President Obama's announcement of a proposed compromise with Republicans on taxes and extending unemployment benefits, it strikes me that there were two things he could have done politically: stand up to Republicans and try to stare them down over the notion of them holding the middle-class tax cuts hostage by wanting to give millionaires a tax break -- while not extending jobless benefits (at Christmas!) -- or claim the whole compromise idea as his own and declare victory. Either option would have signaled a coherent strategy moving forward. We might not have agreed with his move, ...
Obama: An Incompetent Traitor?
By David Corn - Politics DailyObama is incompetent. Obama is a wimp. The bitter partisans of the right have been pushing these memes hard. It makes me wonder whether they know there's a reality beyond Fox News. True, the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has provided conservatives fodder, for perhaps the president could have done something sooner to deal with this tragedy (though who knows what would have led to a faster or better remedy). But leave it to the right -- which tends to oppose government efforts to better regulate corporations -- to hyper-ventilate about Obama's alleged culpability and lack of fortitude. ...
ABC and NBC Refuse to Run Ad Critical of Obama Health Care
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyABC and NBC have refused to run a national ad critical of President Obama's health care reform plan. The commercial features a doctor who warns that a government-run health care system will lead to rationing and will disproportionately harm the quality of care for seniors on Medicare. The spot has been running for two weeks on local affiliates of Fox, CBS and even ABC and NBC. But the two networks have refused to air the commercial nationally, according to Fox News. ...
McCain's Three-State Nightmare
By David Knowles - Politics DailyReaders of this blog known that I've been keeping tabs on the three states that John McCain's campaign put forth as their ticket to victory. You'll recall that the three in question are Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pennsylvania. Here are the latest developments. Yesterday, we learned that the RNC, as McCain had done before Michigan, will now be pulling down ads in Wisconsin. Why? According to Realclearpolitics.com, McCain's numbers have cratered of late. He went from being 5% down two weeks ago, to 6.7% down last week, and he now trails Obama by 10.4% in the aggregate polls, making Wisconsin a ...
Chelsea Clinton Better Than Bill
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe circle is now complete...- D. Vader Former President and would-be First Gent Bill Clinton seems to have been overtaken in the political skills department by daughter Chelsea Clinton, observes Politico:In Philadelphia Monday night for a final rally before the must-win Pennsylvania primary, Chelsea Clinton told a packed crowd that she and her father are having an "implicit competition about who is my mother's better surrogate on any given day." She may have been joking. She may also be winning. Bill Clinton is a master of retail politicking, widely acknowledged to have few peers as a ...
Dick Morris: It's Over
By Dave - Politics DailyDick Morris is certain and his logic is sound: The results are already clear. Obama will go to the Democratic Convention with a lead of between 100 and 200 elected delegates. The remaining question is: What will the superdelegates do then? But is that really a question? Will the leaders of the Democratic Party be complicit in its destruction? Will they really kindle a civil war by denying the nomination to the man who won the most elected delegates? No way. They well understand that to do so would be to throw away the party's chances of victory and to stigmatize it among African-Americans and ...
Dick Morris and Huckabee
By Dave - Politics DailyAt the risk of spending too much time covering Mike Huckabee, eyebrows are being raised over the relationship between him and Dick Morris: Morris lately has been lavishing praise in newspaper columns and television appearances on Huckabee, whose polished debate performances and recent gains in the polls in Iowa have given him a chance to penetrate the top tier among the GOP candidates."Mike Huckabee is on a roll," Morris began one of his columns in The Hill newspaper last month. He also offers regular political analysis for Fox News and the New York Post.Morris' public touts of Huckabee ...
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