From today’s Politico: At a meeting last April with corporate lobbyists, aides to President Barack Obama and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) helped set in motion a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, primarily financed by industry groups, that has played a key role
Politico UPDATE: Although Media Matters stated in a release that the Dobbs ad will air on Oct. 21 and 22, the network tells POLITICO it will not. “Contrary to reports, CNN has not accepted these spots and they will not
Taxpayers foot the bill for office items lost or stolen by members of Congress Half-a-million dollar NSF stimulus grant pays to search for alternatives to Facebook Stimulus funds pay to create an online database of bugs Stimulus funds to pay
Politico today turns its attention to the special election in upstate New York, where GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava is, basically, out of cash: Dede Scozzafava, the GOP nominee in a key upcoming House special election, is running dangerously low on
Politico: Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) received numerous standing ovations from the audience during his speech and also won laughs with his well-honed timing, spot-on impressions of George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and a bit of an equal-opportunity jab at
From the great folks at Sen. Tom Coburn’s office: Political scientists lobbying Congress for federal subsidies The National Science Foundation spends about $8 million annually to support political science research Research sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the U.S.
From CBS News: Bertha Lewis, the chief executive of embattled community group ACORN, told reporters at the National Press Club today that her critics are engaged in “modern-day ACORN McCarthyism” born in part from the group’s history of “going after
Several days ago, Capital Research Center’s Matthew Vadum published research here indicating an ACORN alumni in the White House (other than the president): Political Director Patrick Gaspard. As I did three weeks prior at ACORNcracked.com, Matthew used a Wade Rathke
Politico: Republican Sen. Jon Kyl’s now-famous comment that he doesn’t need his insurance policy to cover maternity care is now part of a DNC ad running in Tucson and Phoenix.
Politico: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele called New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman a “nut job” on Thursday for suggesting that current fury in among the conservative grassroots is creating the “same kind of climate here that existed in
Today’s Pork Report from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) identies at least $315 million in wasteful Washington spending: Congress boosts its own budget by $250 million; Increase will pay to hire consultants, hold receptions, and send postcards to voters Only 16%
Politico: When asked which friends from D.C. called him about his dancing last week, Tom DeLay said: “I had the former Speaker of the House. I had 24 members of Congress send me emails. They all think I’m crazy.”
This is how degenerate Hollywood’s become: Today it’s more damaging to your career to buck the “cool kids” and speak out against the child rapist than it is to be the child rapist. The round up below took twenty-minutes to
From Politico: NBC News president Steve Capus fired back at Americans for Limited Government Friday, after the conservative group published an email allegedly from NBC producer Jane Stone to its director of media outreach Alex Rosenwald, with one line: “Bite
**UPDATE** Politico: NBC Vehemently Denies Allegations Over Anti-Semitic Email **UPDATE 2** ALG Statement in Response to Alleged NBC Email **UPDATE 3** NBC News Statement **UPDATE 4**Group Stands Ground Over Claims That NBC Employee Issued Anti-Semitic Email Apparently NBC “Dateline” producer
In a Gallup poll released this week, more than half of those surveyed said the government has gone too far: Americans are more likely today than in the recent past to believe that government is taking on too much responsibility
Politico: In the most contentious exchange of President Barack Obama’s marathon of five Sunday shows, he said it is “not true” that a requirement for individuals to get health insurance under a key reform plan now being debated amounts to
***Full interview below*** Today Chris Wallace interviewed ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis and noted ACORN critic Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA). Politico reports on the interview here: Issa to ACORN: Will you come before Congress? Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) challenged ACORN chief
Politico: House Democratic leaders will move ahead with a “resolution of disapproval” against Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) on Tuesday afternoon, following through on their threat to sanction the conservative lawmaker for heckling President Obama during his speech to Congress last
Politico: A Democrat, amused at the shots of Eric Cantor working his Blackberry as the president talked about the cost of health care a few minutes ago, passes on this item from last week headed, “Cantor: GOP will be ‘attentive’
Bill Kristol: A guy named Jim Hoft in St. Louis, Missouri who runs a blog called Gateway Pundit did much more reporting on this than the entire mainstream media.Gateway Pundit: There were several bloggers who reported on this scandal. Glenn
Politico: Republicans and a handful of Democrats have called on the White House to review and suspend its use of czars. Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) on Friday asked for a Senate hearing on the Jones appointment. “In the wake of
[youtube _rRE5UK6NQU nolink] Join the Big Hollywood pool… How long before the media starts their dirty work on this man? For those of you who didn’t choose A: They’ve Already Started… first time in America? UPDATE: The Congressman being addressed
Politico: Obama has uttered more than a half-million words in public since taking office Jan. 20 – and a POLITICO analysis of nearly every word in this vast public record shows that domestic topics dominate, so much so that Obama
Naturally those who enjoyed (and created) all the “art” and pop culture used to demonize and dehumanize George W. Bush (whoops!) are now crying “racism” with the turning of the tables. They’re worried, and this hollow cry is all they
