President Obama has violated Rule 7 of Saul Alinsky’s 13 Rules for Radicals: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Don’t become old news.” As Obama failed to leverage his reelection position of strength into fiscal cliff and sequester victories,
WASHINGTON, March 8 (UPI) —U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., fresh off a 13-hour filibuster over President Obama’s drone policy, says he is considering a presidential run in 2016. In an interview published Friday in Politico, Paul suggested the Republican Party
Juan Williams has had to admit that a recent column he wrote contained full sections of a report by the liberal Center for American Progress and that he failed to attribute the source. Williams used CAP’s work, in some cases
This Politico story points out that Atty. General Holder’s response to Sen. Paul’s 13 hour filibuster was just 43 words long. That got me wondering how many words it took to prompt that curt response. Transcripts of the first 7
Earlier this week, the White House announced that they will halt all public tours of the White House on account of the mandated sequester cuts that kicked in on March 1. The WH tour cuts will save $74K a week
In response to Crumbs in exchange for party unity: I suspect you’re right about the likely results of attempting to herd the GOP’s grassroots cats, with anything approaching the coordination Obama forced upon the gun control lobby. One might go
Amazing Politico piece about gun control groups agreeing to fall in line, like good little soldiers, and mindlessly support whatever Obama does: The White House knew its post-Newtown effort would require bringing key gun-control groups into the fold. So the
My criticism of the First Lady has little to do with her fashion sense (which is hit or miss, I think), but this exchange between the New York Times and famous designer Vivienne Westwood is revealing: Q. You must love
On Monday, Politico ran a long story by Dylan Byers ripping into Fox News president Roger Ailes. “[W]ith his career heading toward its twilight,” wrote Byers, “Ailes is in a war for control of his own legacy.” Byers cites the
In response to Ace: The White House has not responded to Sen. Paul all day. Even Politico couldn’t get them to talk. But it seems unlikely the President will be able to simply ignore this. It will be network news.
In response to Is Obamacare Really All That Bad?: State governors and legislatures are facing a tough decision on whether to participate in Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. There’s a good piece by Chuck Blahous, public trustee for Social Security and Medicare over at
True to form, Politico and MSNBC once again became one just a few minutes ago. Here’s Politico’s national political reporter, James Hohmann, explaining Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster motivations on MSNBC: Rand Paul’s concern is his own base of support. He
The voters of Kentucky, who are among the most conservative in the nation and largely regard human life as sacred, should know that Ashley Judd, a prospective candidate for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat, is being championed by EMILY’s List, the
ADDED: Financial Times communication manager Ryann Gastwirth emailed some clarifications to this story. His full email is below: The cuts and restructuring outlined by John Fallon are Pearson-wide and not specific to the FT. Also, the second sentence refers to
The research that the GOP has done on Ashley Judd, prospective candidate for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat, seems to be bearing fruit. Some Kentucky Democrats are nervous about Judd entering the race due to her bizarre past statements. Fourteen Kentucky
Michelle Obama may have spoken at the Oscars, but Oprah Winfrey is going her one better in the prestige department; she will be the speaker at Harvard University’s 2013 commencement. It’s hard to take the announcement seriously as an indication
On March 1, National Journal Washington bureau chief Ron Fournier tweeted a question: Why is that President Obama “can handle Bin laden, not Boehner? He may be POTUS, but Obama incapable of ‘a Jedi mind meld.’” He then continued, “Bin
In the days leading up to Friday’s sequester deadline, President Obama and Administration officials ratcheted up their dire warnings over the impact of automatic spending cuts. Speaking at a press conference Friday, just hours before he would sign an order
Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter says Robert Gibbs sent him a “threatening email” in 2008 after he wrote an article critical of Barack Obama. There is a kind of a threatening tone that from time to time, not all the time,
Now that it is OK for the Old Media to slam Bob Woodward, hit pieces on his work are coming out of the woodwork. One of the latest is from The New Yorker, where Woodward’s body of work was termed,
The State Department has released its much-anticipated report on the environmental impact of the Keystone Pipeline and, to the alarm of the green lobby, it seems to leave President Obama with little reason to continue delaying approval of the project.
Amid the push for more gun control for law-abiding citizens, President Obama exercised his pardoning power for Larry Wayne Thorton, a Forsyth, GA man who had been sentenced to four years probation for firearm-related offenses. Thorton was sentenced after being
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Leave it to Mike Allen, one of the White House’s designated spokespeople at Politico, to misquote one of Politico’s own stories in order to push the Obama sequester-end-of-the-world agenda. This morning on Politico’s Playbook, Allen quoted a story from his
There are two stories circulating around Bob Woodward this morning. One is relatively easy to resolve and the other is more difficult. The first is the the claim being made by numerous media personalities, both left and right, that what
