Daily Gut: Dan's the Man
So the White House has a new communications director, and he’s just as adorably misguided as the previous one. During an interview with The New York Times’ The Caucus blog – whatever that is – Dan Pfeiffer (no relation to
So the White House has a new communications director, and he’s just as adorably misguided as the previous one. During an interview with The New York Times’ The Caucus blog – whatever that is – Dan Pfeiffer (no relation to
The 2010 elections represent an enormous opportunity for Congressional Republicans. As I pointed out in Part I of this series, The Lessons of ’66 and ’94 Loom Over the Democrats, the average loss for the President’s Party, when the President’s
Consider this irony: Democrats and their special interest allies are in the fight of their lives to keep the seat formerly held by the champion of socialized medicine in the bluest of states. Democrats should be tap dancing on the
Mark McGwire, America’s tarnished baseball hero, the mythical Paul Bunyan with a bat, the man who went in front of a bunch of showboating, preening congressmen and infamously said that he wasn’t there to talk about the past, finally opened
Media Matters is taking the Tea Party Convention to task regarding its limited credentialing for press access. Tea Party convention hosts Palin and bans the press. Except Palin employer Fox News Media message from the right wing: If you don’t
Media Matters is taking the Tea Party Convention to task regarding its limited credentialing for press access. Tea Party convention hosts Palin and bans the press. Except Palin employer Fox News Media message from the right wing: If you don’t
The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (the Stimulus Bill) has been such an epic failure, that even the mainstream media has started to notice. The White House has tacitly acknowledged this and recently announced that it would no longer ‘count’
So a recent article posted on the White House website claims that President Obama’s “steady diplomacy” has given America a renewed moral authority. So what’s the recipe for their self-proclaimed success? Obama’s clumsy and misguided attempt to close Gitmo. According
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy AP: Declaring “We want our money back,” President Barack Obama wants to slap a tax on banks to recoup the money that the American public spent on bailing
The other day I pointed out the fact that President Obama has yet to donate the money he was awarded as the Nobel recipient. Obama stated he would donate the $1.4 million prize to charity. It’s been several weeks since
Wednesday, the Washington Post reported: “For months, economists and government watchdogs have warned that the job-creation reports should be taken with a heavy grain of salt. . . . Trying to count the number of jobs created or saved may
The voters are getting angry at The One. A majority disapprove of how he’s handling health care “reform” AND the economy. The AP reports that the billions spent on road construction has done nothing to lower unemployment. The “most popular
With the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expected to conclude this week a comment-seeking exercise relevant to net neutrality rules proposed last fall by Julius Genachowski, top telecommunications and tech policy observers are claiming that the FCC Chairman could be set
On January 3 the usually non-partisan Food Network had its closest brush with politics, with predictable results. Bait and switch, Washington style. Food Network aired a two hour Iron Chef: America featuring Michelle Obama. Our choleric FLOTUS was there to
In August 2003, then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi issued a press statement demanding to know from President Bush, “Where Are the Jobs?” The statement was released in response to the monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, which, at that time
Big Government contributor Dana Loesch has reported on the Coakley staffer who attacked a Weekly Standard reporter outside a Martha Coakley fundraiser on Capitol Hill. A number of outlets have identified the culprit as Michael Meehan, a long-time Democrat political
Republicans are continuing to insist on behalf of the American people that any legislative negotiations pertaining to health care reform be made public. Today, Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) is filing a discharge petition which, if signed by 218 Representatives, would
It’s amusing to watch President Obama try to stick it to his friends in organized labor by proposing a tax on union-negotiated health care benefits. If it weren’t for the fact that the tax proposal would have a devastating effect
Five minutes into this interview I thought it was a joke. Then it lasted five minutes longer and by that time there was nothing funny about it. More than ten minutes of network time wasted on a guy ABC thinks
Before we begin… Perhaps it’s genetic and, because I’m Irish-American, I’m sounding like Joseph McCarthy when he railed against Communism with his Un-American Activities Committee. Plus, with a name like Moriarty, given that’s the “handle” for the major villain in
In the book Game Change penned by John Heilemann and Mark Halprin, Harry Reid is quoted as saying that people supported Obama because he was “light skinned,” and because he exhibited no “Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
Hamas rally, March 30, 2005 (Reuters/Nayef Hashlamoun) [Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans. Click here to read earlier articles.] How deep are the ties between the so-called antiwar
Midterm elections can present a considerable risk for a new President. Often viewed as a referendum on a President’s policies, the last 45 years featured such huge party losses as 54 House seats under Clinton, 48 seats under Ford, and
To the common definition of pessimist – one who anticipates the worst — I plead guilty. Yes, I know that it is the start of a New Year and I ought to be looking forward to the new decade with
It takes a lot to shock us Nevadan’s. We live in a state where gambling is open and legal. Prostitution is legal in some counties. Taxi cabs are wrapped with pictures of strippers and ads promoting Las Vegas take great
