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The Truth According to Mark (Free subscription) | 03/16/2010
In the last week I have seen several columns speculating that President Obama's popularity has bottomed out and will rise again. Here is the most recent by Howard Fineman. So, is there anything to this? Fineman mentions Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton so let's take a quick look at their presidencies. For Reagan, and Clinton, you need to understand the Misery Index . This is created by adding the inflation...
The Sideshow (Free subscription) | 03/12/2010
I don't know why anyone let's them get away with calling it "ObamaCare" when, in fact, it is DoleCare - Bob Dole's 1994 proposal for not having a progressive health care solution. With that in mind, Seth Ackerman on Why health care reform is not a "huge progressive victory" : Let's start by asking why there have been no large-scale advances in social legislation since the 1960's....
Bonncaruso's USA POLITIC (Free subscription) | 03/11/2010
2010 Midterm Elections – Bonncaruso's Senate Predictions, March 2010 Please read the ENTIRE analysis before commenting. Notice that in this analysis there is almost no mention of current issues. This is 90% statistics here. History has shown us that in the vast majority of mid-terms, the party in power has suffered losses. I did a thorough posting on this on the thead to my first prediction ....
All in Faber (Free subscription) | 03/10/2010
To expand upon the point of Mitt Romney's likely nomination by the Republican party in 2010, it might be worth looking back over the party's history and recognizing that in the 39 national conventions the party has held, the nominee has been the incumbent in 14 cases. Of the 25 remaining conventions, there have been nine in which there was no obvious "next-in-line" by virtue either of being...
The Left Coaster (Free subscription) | 03/09/2010
One of the most notable observations for American politics in the next three year window is how little opposition Barack Obama will face for President in the 2012. Of course there will be a Republican candidate but this hapless soul will have less a chance than Bob Dole did against Clinton, the same Clinton who had been savaged by Republicans and the press for four years and losing the 1992 midterms....
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 03/09/2010
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The political team that helped Scott Brown stage his improbable victory in the Massachusetts Senate race wants to apply its winning strategy elsewhere this election year. First stop: Rhode Island. The Shawmut Group, led by aides to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, is helping GOP congressional candidate John Loughlin, who's campaigning to replace retiring Rep. Patrick...
Creating Orwellian Worl (Free subscription) | 03/09/2010
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) He is the real deal unlike to the pretender that’s in office today. He knows his stuff and he is not an affirmative action teleprompter baby like the president. He is everything that Barry Hussein Soetoro is pretending to be. In this interview with Chris Matthews, on Hardball, Chris stopped just short of getting a tingle up his leg. (see 8:10min video) Congressman Ryan has...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 03/09/2010
Tomorrow's editorial page in The Wall Street Journal will be playing for laughs : President Obama has laid a political trap for Republicans with his allegedly bipartisan budget deficit commission, and the question is whether the GOP leadership on Capitol Hill will fall into it. One way to increase the odds of dodging it would be for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to name the likes of former...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 03/07/2010
So the US congress first voted on a non-binding committee resolution to condemn as genocide the mass killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 2007. It voted again on the matter this week. It is unlikely that the vote will reach the House floor. The administration will exert pressure to prevent it. But the Armenian community and their supporters (like Sen. Bob Dole) have been trying for decades...
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 03/01/2010
Cameron Lynch , a veteran D.C.-based political consultant, has some advice for Republican candidates in 2010: Don’t talk about abortion and same-sex marriage. In a blog on Politico over the weekend, Lynch — who has worked for politicians ranging from former Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle to former Republican Sen. Bob Dole [...]
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 03/01/2010
Former Fox News commentator Angela McGlowan is out to turn traditional politics upside down by running in Mississippi's 1st Congressional District race. She is a woman. She is black. She is a former beauty queen-turned congressional staffer-turned political analyst and is a best-selling author. And she says she is the most conservative candidate in a three-way Republican primary race to unseat U.S....
Judiciary Report (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
Tricky Dick Cheney Two of Washington's old guard, former Vice President, Dick Cheney and former Senator, Bob Dole, have been hospitalized (in addition to Bill Clinton last week). Yesterday, Cheney was hospitalized with chest pains, much like Rush Limbaugh a few weeks ago. The chest pains are most likely stress related, due to fighting President Obama, whose heart is years younger (though he could...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 02/23/2010
Bob Dole is recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after a bout with pneumonia and knee surgery, his office said. The former U.S. senator from Kansas and 1996 GOP presidential candidate is working from his hospital room, making calls on behalf of his clients at the Alston & Bird law firm.
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 02/23/2010
Washington (CNN) – Former Sen. Bob Dole is recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after knee surgery and a bout with pneumonia, his consulting firm said Monday. "Thanks to the great doctors and nurses at Walter Reed, I am making great strides, working between sessions and hope to be fully recovered and back at the [...]
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 02/23/2010
Former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., is currently being held at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington after undergoing surgery on his knee and battling off a bout with pneumonia. "Thanks to the great doctors and...
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