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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
"Young & the Guest List," Washington Life 's annual roundup of roughly 200 (more this year) of the metro area's top innovators under the age of 40 just hit newsstands. This year's list includes 152 men, 112 women, 2 diplomats 35 CEOs and 44 folks from the White House and Cap Hill. WL tells us that there were 78 new editions this year and a quick read proves that DC media types were well-represented....
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The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
By GottaLaff I posted earlier about Richard Shelby's jaw-dropping hostage-taking of 70 of President Obama nominees. On the Thom Hartmann Show just now, I heard that Robert Gibbs is livid, justifiably so. Now the White House is going for a twofer: Calling this a national security threat as well as obstruction: Yesterday, just hours after the Senate voted 96-0 to confirm Martha Johnson as the Administrator...
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The Plum Line (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
The news that Richard Shelby has placed a blanket hold on some 70 nominees to force movement on defense contracts in his state hands the White House a gift, making it easier to dramatize GOP obstructionism as arbitary, self-interested, and an abuse of power. Now White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer is going on [...]
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Open Left (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Progressives are increasingly coming to see ending the 60-vote Senate, and restoring majority rule, as a necessary step to making progressive governance possible. At the same, moving to a 51-vote Senate is also viewed as a nearly impossible political task. None the less, the White House is starting to make some noise about ending the filibuster. Last week, when I asked David Axelrod about the possibility...
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First Read (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer writes on the White House’s blog about how the Senate is holding up administration nominees. “Historically, the filibuster has been used as a way to try and reach a bipartisan compromise; now it's just a tactic used to gum up the works. The Senate has had to cast more votes to break filibusters last year than in the entire 1950s and '60s...
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Politico (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
New-media mindset shapes W.H. comm. strategy.
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Chicagoray (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
At 2000 pages long weighing in at about 10 lbs is the 3 trillion 2011 budget, and he's proposing cutting the equivalent of ACORN's grants from the US government meaning you and I to the tune of 30 billion since 98. Or as the headline indicated, a piddly .065% of the national debt. What a freakin' spendthrift! Done laughing yet? What a joke that he thinks that's gonna do anything but be mocked endlessly...
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Say Anything (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
He’s going to cut spending by taking more of our money. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will propose cutting or changing some 120 items in his budget for fiscal 2011 that will help save $20 billion this year, the White House said on Saturday. ... One of the proposals would eliminate the “Advanced Earned Income Tax Credit,” which allows eligible taxpayers with children...
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Political Punch (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
President Obama will propose $20 billion in spending cuts in his FY2011 budget on Monday. The savings will come from 120 terminations, reductions, and various other savings. In a blog post today White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer details some...
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 01/30/2010
Washington (CNN) – Move over Dick Vitale, President Obama is sliding into the color commentary seat. Obama took a turn at the CBS microphone during the Georgetown/Duke college basketball game Saturday that was also attended by Vice President Biden, and several senior White House staffers including Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Dan Pfeiffer, Robert Gibbs and Mona [...]
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AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
Found this little gem via Greg Sargent : And [White House Communications Director] Dan Pfeiffer tells Politico that the White House will step up efforts to spotlight GOP obstructionism, but this quote may irk folks a bit: “With 59 Senators, it is mathematically impossible for Democrats to do everything on their own." Some will respond that it’s only mathematically impossible if Dems...
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The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Unresearched Dan Pfeiffer, 34, is the White House Communications Director, and he is married to the chief of staff to POTUS CoS Rahm Emanuel. Pfeiffer’s job is to deny. In sum, the oafish, puffy and slow-witted Pfeiffer is way too inside the Obama [...]
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Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
Was it a tack to the right? A re-insistence on health care reform? A play for bipartisanship? A State of the Union address depends largely on how you look at it and who you're talking to, and some disparate voices came together to discuss it this morning for a panel put on by National Journal and The Atlantic, those voices belonging to: National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn...
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Today With President Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 01/27/2010
Obama will urge healthcare bill in his state of the union speech tonight. Once something passes--if something passes-- they should continue to work on healthcare. Maybe they'll be able to come up with more meaningful legislation out of the spotlight, once healthcare moves to the back burner, perception-wise. Asked if Congress might abandon a health care initiative beset with political and policy problems,...
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