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Nancy Pelosi Raising Cash for Wisconsin Labor Fight
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyNancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the U.S. House and a well-known rainmaker for her party, is lending her fundraising prowess to the ongoing labor battles in Wisconsin, where the Republican governor threatens to eliminate public workers' collective bargaining rights. On Thursday, Gov. Scott Walker also ordered the arrests of 14 Democratic lawmakers who are on the lam to avoid voting on his budget bill. Pelosi sent an e-mail to Democratic supporters nationwide Thursday, asking them to pledge as little as $5 to help fight what she called Walker's "reckless assault on the middle class." "Karl ...
Sarah Palin's Secret Asset: Cyber-Messenger Rebecca Mansour
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyIn the 21st century political arena, social media have transformed the dynamic of old-school politicians and their communications consultants. Not so long ago, political image advisers like Michael Deaver deftly used photo ops to show Ronald Reagan atop the Great Wall of China or filling sandbags after a Louisiana flood. James Carville helped chart Bill Clinton's path to the Oval Office by distilling an election message to "It's the economy, stupid." Less than a decade after that, Karl Rove was the architect of a Christian revolution in the Republican Party that carried George W. Bush to ...
Adam Carolla Tops List of Favorite 'Matt Lewis Show' Podcasts of 2010
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyIt's hard to believe the year is almost over, and it's even harder to believe that we're about to celebrate the first anniversary of the podcast. Early on, I was a bit too ambitious -- hoping to do a show a day. (That lasted about six months, until we settled into a more realistic schedule of two to three shows a week). To be sure, we've had some terrific guests this year (and the year isn't over yet). Picking my favorite shows wasn't easy. I racked my brain to come up with my top 10 choices. Note: Several of my regular guests, like Politico's Shira Toeplitz, former White House press ...
On Joe Scarborough's Takedown of Sarah Palin
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyI hope Joe Scarborough likes getting e-mails, because his Politico column on Sarah Palin is sure to provoke some angry ones. Here are a few immediate thoughts on the controversial column: - Scarborough refers to Palin as "a reality show star," but is she really? Now that we have all seen her TLC program, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," I'm not so sure that is a fair classification for it. When people hear the term "reality show," they likely think of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" or "The Osbournes." Calling "SPA" a reality show is not entirely inappropriate, but I would argue that it is also a ...
Bush Takes a Shot at McCain in His 'Decision Points' Memoir
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 8) -- George W. Bush once kicked John McCain when he was a threat, but now he's kicking him when he's down. In his new memoir, "Decision Points," Bush says McCain responded poorly to the financial crisis and should have asked him for help in taking on Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race. McCain may be guilty of the first charge: As the financial crisis exploded, the Arizona senator suspended his campaign, then quickly backtracked, all the while offering no substantive proposals for righting the nation's economy. But as for the second claim, Bush had only a 25 percent approval ...
What Will Christine O'Donnell Do for an Encore?
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Nov. 3) -- Christine O'Donnell isn't letting a little thing like a big loss get in the way of midterm election fun. The tea-party-backed GOP Senate candidate was plainly trounced by Democrat Chris Coons in a race many say helped map out the limits of the tea party's influence. But while the colorful candidate may be off the mat, she's still fighting on, railing against the Republican Party's leadership and vowing to hold Democrats accountable for their big-spending ways. The defiance came through loud and clear in her concession speech Tuesday night, which was just about as unorthodox as ...
Karl Rove Comment on Palin Sends Americans Searching for 'Gravitas' Definition
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 28) -- Let's get this out of the way at the very start: Merriam-Webster defines the word "gravitas" as follows: noun --- high seriousness (as in a person's bearing or in the treatment of a subject) On Thursday, after Republican strategist Karl Rove told a British newspaper that retired Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lacked the "gravitas" to ever become president, thousands of people across the country flocked to computers to try to find out just how big of an insult Rove had made. In fact, for much of the day, the terms "gravitas" and "gravitas definition" remained two of the top 10 Hot ...
Karl Rove Slams Palin for President
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Oct. 28) -- Tell us how you really feel about her, Karl. In an interview with the British newspaper The Telegraph, Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's so-called "brain," offered a few thoughts about Sarah Palin. Essentially, Rove argues that Palin, who left office midway through her first term in office as governor of Alaska, doesn't have what it takes to be elected president. Surveying the prospective field of candidates, Rove told the Telegraph, "You can make a plausible case for any of them on paper, but it is not going to be paper in 2011. It's going to be blood, it's going to be ...
Karl Rove Says Rush Limbaugh Twisted His Tea Party Comment
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyKarl Rove vs. Rush Limbaugh? Who'd a-thunk it? The GOP strategist and former adviser to George W. Bush said Limbaugh misconstrued a remark he made about the tea party being unsophisticated, interpreting it as criticism of the grassroots movement, the Hill reports. "What he took out of context was a comment I made in an interview with a hostile German reporter in which I said the tea party's not sophisticated," Rove said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation." "These are not people who are skilled in the ways of Washington. They don't want to be," he explained. On his radio show Wednesday, ...
House Republicans Get Cozier With Tea Party
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyCall it PDA. Keeping a safe distance no more, House Republican leaders are openly embracing the tea party with No. 2 guy Eric Cantor saying he's willing to work closely with new members elected with the support of the movement. Cantor (R-Va.), the minority whip, brushed aside Democratic claims of extremism within the tea party movement and said the grassroots activists "are people who are concerned about the fiscal state of this country." They are not "outside the mainstream" of American politics, he told CBS's "The Early Show." At the same time, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) ...
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