From Politico, via Hot Air’s Headlines: Glenn Beck is a polarizing figure. If he’s not catching hell for crying on the air and pointing out the Marxism behind many members of the Obama Administration from the Progs, he’s getting…
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Glenn Beck: Huckster, Disinterested Creator, or Just a Guy on the Radio? – (Ace of Spades)
Via the Politico today, we see White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer declaring: “If the Republicans vote in lockstep to oppose limits on corporate influence in our elections, it will be a defining moment for the public.”? Really. This is going to be a defining moment
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Hey, Look, It’s Another Defining Moment in Our History. Again. – (Campaign Spot)
I spent several hours yesterday gathering background on the JournoList. In his March 17, 2009, article at The Politico, Michael Calderone first wrote about the JList, the members of which have been described as “several hundred liberal journalists, activists and like-minded professors.” In an article yesterday at The Daily Caller, Jonathan Strong revealed how the
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Explaining the JListers ‘Leftist Radicalism’ (Updated 2x) – (The Real Obama)
By Jonathan Strong, The Daily Caller It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political career.
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Documents Show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright – (Expose Obama)
Over at Politico , an unnamed Obama adviser endorses Bill Press’ Americans-are-spoiled theory:?“I tell you, it’s very frustrating that it’s not breaking through, when you look at these things and their scale,” said a top Obama adviser, who spoke on background to offer a candid take on the state of play. “Can you imagine if Bill Clinton had achieved even one of these? Part of it is because we are divided, even on the left…And part of it is the culture of immediate gratification.”? By the way, why do White House officials talk so candidly to Politico?
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Politico: Obama Is a Successful President, But Folks Just Don’t Realize It – (Campaign Spot)
By JAMES HOHMANN & JAKE SHERMAN, Politico HERSHEY, Pa.— Rep. Darrell Issa, the conservative firebrand whose specialty is lobbing corruption allegations at the Obama White House, is making plans to hire dozens of subpoena-wielding investigators if Republicans win the House this fall
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Congressman Issa to create Obama investigation team after November Elections – (Expose Obama)
By John Podhoretz, New York Post Does Obama have 9/11 envy? President Obama doesn’t like the fact that the Gulf oil spill reminds people of Hurricane Katrina, since the public response to that catastrophe hastened the decline of his predecessor’s standing.
By MIKE ALLEN, Politico ? Democrats now seeking to sell Obamacare to the public Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and Victoria Kennedy — widow of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) — are expected to be named co-chairmen of a $125 million campaign that White House allies are rolling out to defend health care reform amid growing signs Democrats are failing to get political traction on the issue
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Dems launch $125M Obamacare PR campaign – (Expose Obama)
By JONATHAN ALLEN, Politico ? Blagojevich’s trial will be a political circus The corruption trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is already shaping up to be a political circus, promising to lay bare the underbelly of Chicago politics
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Rod Blagojevich trial rattles insiders – (Expose Obama)
By JOHN BRESNAHAN & JAKE SHERMAN, Politico ? ? Holder is doing his best to protect his boss The Justice Department has rejected a Republican request to appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations that the White House offered a job to Rep.
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DoJ nixes Sestak special counsel – (Expose Obama)
By Patrick Gavin, Politico ? Obama teases the reporter from the NYT, so much for objectivity… Remember those charges of White House favoritism towards the New York Times? As President Barack Obama toured the Industrial Support, Inc. manufacturing facility in Buffalo, he compelled New York Times reporter Sheryl Stolberg to jump in a small hovercraft.
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Obama gets cozy with NYT Reporter – (Expose Obama)
By BEN SMITH & MANU RAJU, Politico ? Illinois is baffling Obama President Barack Obama’s enemies like to call him a creature of the “Chicago machine,” but when it comes to the politics of his home state of Illinois, the White House doesn’t seem to know where the gears are. Indeed, Chicago has delivered an unending stream of embarrassment, frustration and discomfort to the administration of its favorite son, from an indicted governor to a failed Olympics bid to a series of smaller political blows.
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President Obama’s home-state headache – (Expose Obama)
By ERIKA LOVLEY, Politico While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they’ve taken from the oil and gas giant over the years. BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Donations come from a mix of employees and the company’s political action committees — $2.89 million flowed to campaigns from BP-related PACs and about $638,000 came from individuals
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Obama biggest recipient of BP cash – (Expose Obama)
By: Glenn Thrush and Mike Allen, Politico ? Gibbs is feeling the pressure for the administrations mistakes The ferocious oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is threatening President Barack Obama’s reputation for competence, just as surely as it endangers the Gulf ecosystem.
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White House in P.R. ‘panic’ over spill – (Expose Obama)
By JOHN BRESNAHAN & JONATHAN ALLEN, Politico ? Pelosi tells Obama to stop criticizing Congress and DC President Barack Obama’s Washington-bashing could boomerang on his party in Congress if he’s not careful, House Democratic leaders have warned White House senior adviser David Axelrod.
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Nancy Pelosi to White House: Quit bashing D.C. – (Expose Obama)
By JONATHAN ALLEN & CAROL E. LEE, Politico ? Obama goes into attack mode Mitch McConnell is in bed with Wall Street “movers and shakers” — and is fronting “cynical and deceptive” arguments on their behalf. John Boehner is a health care Chicken Little to be mocked for predicting Armageddon if the Democrats’ reform bill passed.
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President Obama’s strategy gets personal – (Expose Obama)
By Ben Smith, Politico The Democratic National Committee this morning released this clip of the president rallying the troops, if rather coolly, for 2010. Obama’s express goal: “reconnecting” with the voters who voted for the first time in 2008, but who may not plan to vote in the lower-profile Congressional elections this year.
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Obama Plays the Race Card for 2010 – (Expose Obama)
The Politico The following story makes me question the intelligence of Bi-Partisanship and Compromise: Quote Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has commitments from every Republican senator to block consideration this week of the Democrats’ Wall Street reform bill, a McConnell spokesman said Saturday. The unified opposition means Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) at this point lacks the crucial 60th vote to begin debate on the bill as it is currently written
? ? The White House goes out of it’s way to say that Kagan is not gay After a White House complaint, CBS News removed a story from its website Thursday that asserted Solicitor General and potential Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is a lesbian. The rundown of possible Supreme Court picks, written by conservative blogger Ben Domenech, referred to Kagan this way: The likeliest candidate, and it was somewhat of a surprise she didn’t get picked last time. Pluses: would please much of Obama’s base, follows diversity politics of Sotomayor with first openly gay justice (so would Karlan and Sullivan).
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WH riled by CBS web post on Kagan – (Expose Obama)
By JONATHAN ALLEN, Politico ? A Budget? we don’t need no stinkin’ budget Congress is poised to miss its April 15 deadline for finishing next year’s budget without even considering a draft in either chamber. Unlike citizens’ tax-filing deadline, Congress’s mid-April benchmark is nonbinding.
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Congress will just keep spending with no budget – (Expose Obama)
Obama Doesn’t Want SCOTUS Fight (???) Quote Liberal leaders see the resignation of Justice John Paul Stevens as a once-in-a-term opportunity for Obama to nominate an unabashed liberal to balance an increasingly conservative high court – while energizing the demoralized Democratic base just in time for the midterms. But few if any of the eight to ten potential nominees being mulled by the White House are progressive firebrands, and White House officials aren’t keen to pick a major new fight after the year-long health care battle, according to people close to the process.
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President Obama Will Further Damage SCOTUS – (Political Hotwire)
By MANU RAJU & EAMON JAVERS, Politico ? Obama? lays down another deadline for Congress Democrats blew deadline after deadline in the health care debate, and now some on Capitol Hill are bristling at the suggestion from the White House that a massive financial reform bill should be on the president’s desk by Memorial Day. “Setting deadlines in an arbitrary manner did not help us get health care done and it will not help us get financial reform done either,” one senior Democratic leadership aide told POLITICO. With Congress returning to session April 12, top Senate Democrats want to get a bill through the upper chamber as quickly as possible — but some privately questioned whether White House spokesman Robert Gibbs’s Memorial Day push would do more harm than good for negotiations.
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Obama sets another deadline – (Expose Obama)
By NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, Politico You would think Easter was about Obama by the way the preacher at the church they visited spoke… ? The first family attended Easter services Sunday at Allen Chapel, an African Methodist Episcopal church in Southeast Washington, a community that was struck by violence recently. The Rev.
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Easter at Allen Chapel for first family – (Expose Obama)
By MIKE ALLEN, Politico Obama will be pushing a radical agenda this Spring ? An emboldened President Barack Obama will take a stronger hand with Congress in coming weeks, planning to push lawmakers to pass new regulations for Wall Street by September, the second anniversary of the meltdown, aides tell POLITICO.
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Obama Plans a Spring Offensive – (Expose Obama)
By Ben Smith, Politico ? I guess they consider mission accomplished now that Obama is in the White House The national group ACORN is folding, an official there, Kevin Whelan, said in an emailed statement: The ACORN Association Board met on Sunday March 21 and approved a set of steps to responsibly manage the process of bringing its operations to a close over the coming months. These include: * Closing ACORN’s remaining state affiliates and field offices by April 1st; and * Developing a plan to resolve all outstanding debts, obligations and other issues. ACORN’s members have a great deal to be proud of–from promoting to homeownership to helping rebuild New Orleans, from raising wages to winning safer streets, from training community leaders to promoting voter participation—ACORN members have worked hard to create stronger to communities, a more inclusive democracy, and a more just nation.
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ACORN’s National Office is Closing – (Expose Obama)
Apparently he thinks so. Glenn Thrush wrote early this morning at The Politico: President Barack Obama had exhausted most of his health care reform arguments with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus during a White House meeting last Thursday when he made a more personal pitch that resonated with many skeptics in the room. One caucus
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Is POTUS Obama “Too Big to Fail?” – (The Real Obama)
By GLENN THRUSH, Politico ? Don’t leave yet Obama…. The White House has been bringing its A game to the final push to pass health care reform – and some House Democrats are so pleased with the shift they want President Barack Obama to postpone his planned Asia trip again if a deal isn’t sealed before his newly announced departure on Sunday. Several House members interviewed by POLITICO said Obama’s looming trip to Australia, Indonesia and Guam, while creating a natural deadline for 11th-hour health care talks, is once again becoming a problem as he tries to sell reluctant members of his own party on the reform legislation
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House Dems want trip delayed again – (Expose Obama)
By JAKE SHERMAN, Politico ? Obama and Co. know all about bribes The top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says the Obama administration may have broken the law by offering Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) a job in order to persuade him not to mount a primary challenge against Sen
By TIM GRIEVE, Politico “Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill,” Massa, who on Friday announced his intention to resign, said during a long monologue on radio station WKPQ. “And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me, and it will pass
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Rep. Eric Massa Bashes the Obama admin – (Expose Obama)
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, Expose Obama ? Obama has come plummeting down to earth Barack Obama was feted by many as a messiah. His supporters compared him to Jesus.
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Barack Obama: Super Hero Falls to Earth – (Expose Obama)
Crazy? Who, me
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Talk About Crazy: Pete Stark To Replace Charlie Rangel? – (Neoavatara)
Quote House Strips Torture Prohibition From Intelligence Bill By Main Justice staff | February 26, 2010 As it debated legislation to reauthorize U.S. intelligence programs, the House Friday morning at the last minute stripped language from a wide-ranging amendment that would have prohibited U.S. intelligence operatives from engaging in cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
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House Strips Torture Prohibition From Intelligence Bill – (Political Hotwire)
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, Expose Obama Obama is ramming his plan through Open wide: ObamaCare is about to be shoved down your throat. As the dust settles after the seven-hour Obama talk-a-thon called the health care summit, it is obvious that Obama never intended to actually listen, or consider compromise despite America’s desire for just that
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ObamaCare Coming Over America’s Objections – (Expose Obama)
Conservative infighting heats up as focus shifts to important policy debates When Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts special election to fill liberal icon Ted Kennedy’s vacant Senate seat, he was hailed as a conservative hero and a symbol of the start of a revolution in American politics. But Brown’s recent vote in favor of a Democrat-sponsored spending bill inspired thousands of conservatives to direct a firehose of anger at the newly-minted Senator via social media sites like Facebook and Twitter
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Conservative infighting heats up – (Political Hotwire)
By Carrie Budoff Brown, Politico ? I will raise taxes on future generations to pay for your healthcare President Barack Obama released a $950 billion health care reform proposal Monday aimed at pleasing the warring wings of his own party and bringing along skeptical voters, in part by including a provision to put off an unpopular tax on high-cost health insurance plans until 2018.
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The Obama plan – (Expose Obama)
By KENNETH P. VOGEL, Politico ? CPAC Starts Today in DC Since Richard Nixon was president, the Conservative Political Action Conference has provided the American Right with an annual occasion for self-evaluation. On Thursday, when some 10,000 activists gather in Washington for this year’s conference, they will find themselves part of a conservative movement significantly different than it was during the Bush administration, or even in 2009
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CPAC Starts Today in DC, EXPOSEOBAMA is here – (Expose Obama)
By David Reilly, Bloomberg ? Poor Jimmy Carter, always used? in the same sentence as Obama President Barack Obama is starting to look like the second coming of Jimmy Carter. If he’s going to avoid that fate, the president had better take radical action — and fast
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Man Up, Obama, or Make Way for President Palin – (Expose Obama)
By PATRICK GAVIN, Politico ? Gibbs is not getting laughs anymore… The White House press room was a jovial place to be in the early days of President Barack Obama’s presidency. But times have changed.
By MANU RAJU, Politico ? Pelosi Rebuffs Obama’s Overtures The Obama administration’s efforts to find common ground with congressional Republicans ran into two pockets of resistance Tuesday: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader John Boehner. At a closed-door White House session, Pelosi expressed skepticism over an administration proposal to offer tax breaks to businesses that create new jobs. And Boehner urged President Barack Obama to abandon much of the Democrats’ current agenda on the ground that it’s killing jobs by creating uncertainty in the markets.
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Nancy Pelosi resists President Obama’s outreach efforts – (Expose Obama)
By CAROL E. LEE, Politico ? Obama has turned into the lecturer in chief For a president who ran on uplifting themes like change and hope , Barack Obama spends an awful lot of time scolding Americans about how he hopes they’ll change.
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President Obama the scold – (Expose Obama)