Charlie Rose with Tom Daschle; Charles Rose; Alan Dershowitz (November 29, 1994)
First Read (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
From NBC's Ken Strickland In what appears to be the administration making a a last-minute push to curry votes for health care, Vice President Joe Biden is up there lobbying as is former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle . Interior Secretary Ken Salazar , a former centrist U.S. Senator has also been spotted in the hallways, but he says he's just up there to see friends and that he's not really lobbying...
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Bob Weir at American Thinker has some thoughts: What this country needs is a strong conservative leader with the courage of her convictions. Sensing those qualities in Sarah Palin, the liberal left is becoming frantic because they can't seem to halt her popularity. The reason they're panicking is because they're afraid of her connection with regular folks who work for a living, pay their taxes, attend...
Madville Times (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Sam Hurst is not the typical blogospheric barroom brawler. His thoughtful prose generally floats above the combative, poke-in-the-eye polemics that Sibby and I goof around with. I thus hesitate to use words like hammers , skewers , or other such violent metaphors to describe his writing. But Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin's Blue Doggery has provoked Mr. Hurst to come out swinging. Hurst offers...
Connecting.the.Dots (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
In 2006, conservative columnist David Brooks fell in love politically with a young senator and wrote a column, " Run Barack Run ." We all know how that worked out and now, in a column today, " Meet John Thune ," Brooks reveals a new heartthrob from the other side of the Senate aisle. "Thune," he writes, "is the junior senator from South Dakota, the man who beat Tom...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
U.S. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., is a guy some Republicans think should consider a run for president. After his bruising 2004 win that knocked Democratic heavyweight Tom Daschle out of a seat, Thune can be forgiven if he takes his 2010 re-election bid with less concern and actually looks ahead [...]
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I write this week from New Orleans, where I am participating in the Bipartisan Policy Center's Inaugural Political Summit, organized by Tom Daschle, Howard Baker and Bob Dole and hosted by Mary Matalin and James Carville. The conference has assembled about 20 top Democratic and Republican political strategists and operatives and has asked us to assess how we might take the poison out of partisanship...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
White House Communications Director Anita Dunn is stepping down at the end of the month. NewsBusters readers should remember Dunn as the outspoken Adminstration official who made quite a splash in October when she said the Fox News Channel " really is not a news network at this point ." Now, according to the Associated Press, she's passing the baton: White House officials say Anita Dunn...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Jake Tapper reports that Anita Dunn, tongue-chewing White House communications director, acolyte of Mao Zidong and Mother Theresa, and a frequent surprise guest in the Hit & Run comment threads, has been ousted by counterrevolutionary enemies of the people. Tapper, a running dog of the American Imperialist Broadcasting Company, says that Dunn was not made a non-person by capitalist stooges, but...
YID With LID (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
In a surprising move Anita Dunn, White House communications director is leaving her post at the end of the month. Dunn who set back the image of the presidency at least fifty years is most famous for taking on the Drudge Report and losing and then taking on Fox News and Losing: Dunn leaving White House, Pfeiffer takes over White House communications director Anita Dunn will step down from her post...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Looks like WaPo 's Chris Cillizza , on The Fix , is the first to report that White House Communications Director Anita Dunn will step down at the end of this month, to be replaced by her deputy Dan Pfeiffer . Cillizza's reporting: Dunn, a longtime Democratic media consultant, took over the job on an interim basis earlier this year when Ellen Moran abruptly left the post to take a job at the Commerce...
Patriot Room (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
NPR is wringing its hands . . . with good reason. Let's look at their list of Senate races and see how much good news is there for the Dems. Democratic leader Harry Reid is woefully unpopular in Nevada. Six Republicans are competing for the chance to topple him the way GOP Sen. John Thune of South Dakota did to then-Democratic leader Tom Daschle in 2004. RCP has both Republicans Lowden and Tarkanian...
American Power (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Ed Morrissey's got a great rundown on the House vote last night, " Is This the High-Water Mark for ObamaCare? " As he notes there, the rubber hits the road in the Senate, where Majority Leader Harry Reid's under pressure to produce a healthcare monstrosity that a majority of Americans opposes. The Politico 's got the story, " All Eyes on Sen. Harry Reid ." But the bottom line is...
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Today on AM1100 my good friend Scott Hennen played audio of a number of North Dakota political leaders saying that Governor John Hoeven has plenty of time yet to announce a run against Senator Byron Dorgan. The new spin among these Republicans seems to be that Hoeven is playing a delay game not unlike what challenger John Thune did to then-Democrat Senate Leader Tom Daschle. The problem? Dorgan is...
State of the Division (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
MSNBC reported on the "unprecedented release" of White House visitor logs: The White House on Friday released a small list of visitors to the White House since President Barack Obama took office in January, including lobbyists, business executives, activists and celebrities. No previous administration has released such a list, though the information out so far is incomplete. Only about 110...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
In Corner posts yesterday, I talked about Obama’s latest insult of Republicans -- we do what we’re told, while Democrats think for themselves -- and asked whether George W. Bush had ever so insulted Democrats. A reader sent me an excerpt from David Frum’s excellent book The Right Man , an account of Bush in the first year of his presidency: Bush would not criticize individual Democratic...
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