It’s funny to me that people are speaking about the 2010 mid-terms as if the result wasn’t already baked in:
“I think that there is a real shot we are going to get slaughtered in elections this fall if we aren’t leading the efforts to reform Washington. We campaigned in ‘06 and ‘08, and if voters [...]
Obama’s liberal base ‘disengaged’ – USAToday (3/10/10):
“The energized base which transformed the nation and elected our first black president (is) now disengaged,” Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile says. “If this was September, I would hit the panic button.”
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Still, signs of trouble for the Democratic majority in Congress are springing up in:
Virginia, where a host of [...]
In a Supreme Court case involving Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay, the Obama administration has won the kind of victory the president should presumably relish. Both sides won, in some sense.
In October 2008, U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina had ordered that 17 Uighur detainees be released into the US:
U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. [...]
“It’s Time to Return to the 50 State Strategy” by John Morgan
(reprinted in full by permission, emphasis added)
Barack Obama campaigned for President on the message of Change. Many changes were necessary amidst the failed policies of the Bush White House. The country was going in the wrong direction and we were in a major economic [...]
Obama may compromise on consumer agency to pass financial regulation – WaPo (2/25/10):
The Obama administration is no longer insisting on the creation of a stand-alone consumer protection agency as a central element of the plan to remake regulation of the financial system.
In hopes of quick congressional approval of a reform bill, White House officials are [...]
Obama haz dem:
A new CNN poll finds that Americans think both Democrats and Republicans are failing to act in a bipartisan manner — and that the Democrats should be the first ones to give up some of their proposals.
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The next one: “Many people say that bipartisan cooperation will only occur if one party takes the [...]
Toomey Holds Big Leads in Pennsylvania:
A new Franklin & Marshall poll in Pennsylvania finds Pat Toomey (R) leading both Sen. Arlen Specter (D) and Rep. Joe Sestak (D) by double-digits in general election match ups.
Toomey leads Specter, 44% to 34%, and tops Sestak, 38% to 20%.
In the Democratic primary, Specter leads Sestak, 33% to 16%, [...]
Here’s (part of) a ThinkProgress headline: “Boehner now complains that Obama’s is too short“.
1115, she say, that if Obama’s is too short, then Boehner’s is totally non-existent.
(Funnily enough, that’s also true of their healthcare plans.)
“I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” – Barack Obama 9/12/08
The Democratic co-chairman of the bipartisan debt-reduction commission that President [...]
David Axelrod edition
“To the extent the Republican Party is seen as sitting on the sidelines, rooting for failure, I don’t think they will be rewarded.”
– White House political adviser David Axelrod, in an interview with The Hill, on the midterm elections outlook.
Seen any polls lately, dumbass?
