DOWNLOADS: (52) PLAYS: (204) Dean: Senate health bill 'watered down' : Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Howard Dean said Monday that Senate Democrats' healthcare legislation is so diluted it threatens the party's 2010 chances. Appearing on MSNBC, the former Vermont governor and outspoken proponent of healthcare reform charged Democrats were "playing with dynamite in terms of...
I was a little surprised to read Susie Madrak writing about Joe Sestak's potential conflicts with other Senators as a negative: It's a legitimate question since, as Howard Dean pointed out, the Senate is a gentlemen's club and your effectiveness is closely tied to your ability to build relationships. I can certainly confirm what Susie writes about Joe Sestak expecting his staff to work very hard, and...
To be kind, Obama's DNC head, Tim Kaine, isn't exactly from the Howard Dean mold and doesn't quite represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. Generally speaking, the outgoing governor of Virginia represents the Establishment or, in Paul Krugman's words about his kind of Democrats, "corporate tools, defending special interests." What he has in common with Dean, though, is that...
JOE'S TRUE COLORS Scarborough Removes All Doubt As To His Leanings For the few remaining souls still confused as to Joe Scarborough's true political leanings , the MSNBC host / syndicated radio talker has resolved the matter for good. During today's Morning Joe , the former congressman lashed out against Sarah Palin ( whose book has been a runaway success , especially up next to Scarborough's relatviely...
Joe Scarborough was surely right about one thing . . . when he warned that his pronouncement would "enrage conservatives." The Morning Joe host today proclaimed that comparing Sarah Palin to Howard Dean was an insult . . . to Dean's intelligence. Joe's jab came in response to an analogy Time's Mark Halperin drew between the excitement Palin creates and that drummed up by Dean's presidential...
Politico : After a host of battleground district House Democrats voted against the health care bill Saturday, liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas, founder of the widely read Daily Kos, urged followers of his blog to stop donating to another party committee — the DCCC, the committee charged with reelecting Democratic House incumbents — and instead contribute directly to candidates. “So...
Reihan Salam at National Review : Like a lot of people, my gut tells me that Sarah Palin or perhaps Mike Huckabee will be the Howard Dean of 2012. Of course, that would suggest that the Republican nominee in 2012 will be the right’s answer to John Kerry, which is a prospect too disturbing to contemplate for very long. Daniel Larison at American Conservative : It might be amusing to speculate...
New York Times reporter Peter Baker questioned whether President Obama’s soaring rhetoric ("the most gifted orator of his generation") was still getting through in his Sunday Week in Review piece " The Words That Once Soared ," and even let Obama aides suggest the president's Cairo speech "was responsible for Iranians taking to the streets of Tehran to protest a disputed...
Reihan compares political campaigns, past and future: Conservatives delighted in the ideological exuberance of Howard Dean's progressive youth, and they were unprepared for Barack Obama's slickly post-ideological campaign that drew on the left's energy while running a disciplined centrist campaign....
Of knowing they'll be more material at those times I'm in a pinch for it : Sarah Palin says she’s back on Twitter Former Alaska governor plans to offer updates from her book tour Wagging one's finger around is hard to capture in 140 words, but "Awesome Bogus, y'know" fits in quite nicely. Finally, the quartet for the 4-twits of the apocalypse is complete; Famine , Disease , War and...
MoveOn has reportedly raised more than $3.5 million in contributions to fund primary challenges against "any Democratic senator who blocks an up-or-down vote on health care reform with a public option," according to an e-mail sent to group members. The e-mail warned that any Democratic House member who joins Republicans to filibuster the health care reform measure will "face an enormous...
From http://lifenews.com/nat5623.html Pro-Abortion MoveOn to Challenge Pro-Life Democrats Voting No on Health Care by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor November 6, 2009 addthis_pub = 'sertelt'; Email RSS Print Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The pro-abortion grassroots activist group MoveOn says it has raised millions of dollars to take on any pro-life or moderate Democrat who would vote against or...
Byron York has been following MoveOn.org's effort to enforce left-wing conformity on the Democratic Party. The latest news is that MoveOn has raised nearly $3.6 million to defeat any Senate Democrat who has the temerity to vote against government takeover of health care. Then there's this: And now, working in conjunction with Howard Dean's old organization Democracy for America, MoveOn is starting...
The Olbermann Watch Research Division chuckles every time it hears someone on A-Mess-NBC attacking Fox for being a partisan operation, since we know there are more opposing views aired on any given hour of Hannity or The O'Reilly Factor than you will hear in a month of Edward R Olbermann. Having just finished one such month, here's the proof. We poured through the MSNBC online transcripts and tallied...
In an interview with TPMDC, former DNC chairman Howard Dean draws a bright line between voting against a public option and filibustering it: Even though I disagree with him, Joe Lieberman is well within his right to vote against a...
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