Charlie Rose with Dan Bartlett; Dana Milbank; Mark Halperin; Nancy Gibbs; Timothy Burger; Bob Bryan; Mike Bryan (February 9, 2004)
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
How many protesters were in attendance at Republican congresswoman Michelle Bachmann's tea party healthcare protest? "I climbed the Capitol steps just before the event started so that I could get a good view of the whole crowd," the Washington Post's onetime White House reporter and columnist Dana Milbank wrote Friday. "I divided it into sections and [...]
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
"The sign, visible to the lawmakers as they looked into the cameras, carried a plea to 'Stop Obamunism.' A few steps farther was the guy holding a sign announcing 'Obama takes his orders from the Rothchilds' [sic], accusing Obama of being part of a Jewish plot to introduce the antichrist. ... " No one said Freedom was Pretty By Dana Milbank, Washington Post November 6, 2009 (Submitted by...
BackyardConservative (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Photographic Proof that Dana Milbank Is, as Mark Levin Describes Him, "A Punk, a Liar and a Coward."
........Scattershot........ (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post was at yesterday's bizarre teabagger takeover on the steps of the Capitol building. You can read his epic takedown of this foolishness here. An excerpt: "More ominously, a man standing just beyond the TV cameras apparently suffered a heart attack 20 minutes after event began. Medical personnel from the Capitol physician's office -- an entity that could, quite...
Deus Ex Malcontent (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Dana Milbank's column in today's Washington Post is required reading, even if you have to sign in to do it. As a service to you nice folks, here's the best of it (and oh how irony can be such a cruel mistress): "Many of the demonstrators chanted 'Weasel Queen,' their pet name for the speaker of the House. Others wore masks of Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.); they...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
THANK GOODNESS FOR GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE ON CAPITOL HILL.... About 20 minutes into yesterday's right-wing rally on the Hill in opposition to health care reform, one of the protestors suffered a heart attack. Fortunately, as Dana Milbank reported, medical professionals...
First Read (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Former President George W. Bush will deliver a keynote address at SMU on Nov. 12 outlining his vision for his policy institute, which will be part of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, his office said yesterday. Dana Milbank on yesterday's Tea Party protestors: "Many of the demonstrators chanted 'Weasel Queen,' their pet name for the speaker of the House. Others wore masks of Pelosi (D-Calif.)...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
At the Capitol Hill rally against nationalized health care on Thursday, talk-radio host and author Mark Levin talked to the press: "These are citizen patriots out here, and I’m tired of them being smeared." Some didn’t get the message. In Friday’s Washington Post, columnist Dana Milbank played the usual game of quoting the wackiest signs and smearing thousands of people...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Dana Milbank WashPost Friday, November 6, 2009 The call to arms went out last week. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who made her name suggesting that Barack Obama and other Democrats have "anti-American" views, appeared on Fox News on Friday night and urged Americans to come to Washington to protest: "We need to pay a house call on Nancy Pelosi and tell her what she can do with the...
American Power (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
From Howard Fineman, " One Year Later, Big Test for Big Government ": President Barack Obama believes in the saving grace of the federal government. But do the American people? In a time of economic uncertainty and fear, that is the core question implicit — and sometimes explicit — on Election Day 2009. After a year of sweeping, even breathtaking governmental action to revive...
Open Left (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
This post is part of Friend's of the Earth sponsoring Open Left. Please check out the Friend's of the Earth website here --promoted by Chris Bowers Hearings on the Senate’s climate and energy bill introduced by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA) started this week in the Environment and Public Works Committee. For a good lay of the land on the committee check out this post from...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
JAMES INHOFE, HEATING UP.... Dana Milbank noted this morning, "It must be very lonely being the last flat-earther." He was referring, of course, to the tragically confused senior senator from Oklahoma, James Inhofe (R). The Senate Committee on Environment and...
Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) represents a state with a lot of casinos. But as Dana Milbank points out in a Washington Post column, the Nevadan is gambling with our future so he can shore up support with the left-wing elements of his party. Reid faces a tough reelection fight next year. What Harry Reid did Monday afternoon gave new meaning to the phrase "public option." The Senate...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
MILBANK'S SPIN ON REID'S ANNOUNCEMENT.... When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced yesterday that the chamber is moving forward on a health care reform package that includes a public option, reform advocates were impressed. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank...
Rude Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Hey, There's a Senate Health Care Bill That Doesn't Suck : In the scheme of things, on the already rigged-to-the-right playing field that we were given, Senator Harry Reid's announcement yesterday that the Senate version of the health care reform bill will contain a public option, with the stupid-states-can-bail opt-out clause, was actually a victory of sorts for the left. Sure, sure, the whole public...
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