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Allen West to Obama: I’ll debate you, my opponent, and your whole families
On offense. He doesn’t explicitly mention the families, but trust me. It’s clearly implied. I looked around for an independent poll on this race but, to my amazement, couldn’t find any. It’s all...
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WaPo: Karzai in “high level” talks with Taliban to end Afghanistan war
What could go wrong? It’s a testament, I think, to how many people are exasperated with/dispirited by the progress of the war that this potentially huge news has been only lightly blogged around the...
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Quotes of the day
Values. “DeMint said at a church rally Friday that openly gay people and unmarried women who are sleeping with a boyfriend shouldn’t be in the classroom, according to the Spartanburg Herald Journal....
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Obamateurism of the Dais
By popular demand. I’ve been getting bombarded with requests to add this to the pantheon of Obamateurisms, but I’m not sure that this qualifies. The presidential seal falls off of the podium on its...
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Peterson: My constituents wouldn’t know anything if the national media didn’t...
"Nothing's changed." It’s not the first time that Minnesota’s 7th CD Representative has spoken with something less than flattery about the people who send him to Washington. Last year, Collin Peterson...
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NYT: Obama letting big corporations off the hook with ObamaCare waivers
The Rule of Arbitrariness. Actually, that’s closer to the headline on MSNBC’s reprint (“White House allows big firms to dodge health reforms”) of this New York Times article than the one in the Times...
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Report claims WH squelched worst-case Gulf spill estimates
Cover-up? Initial glimpses of a new report from an Inspector General on the administration’s response to the Gulf spill focused on the failure to take it seriously in the opening days of the crisis....
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Baucus: EPA should not regulate greenhouse gases on its own
But it's not exactly a priority for him. Max Baucus assured constituents in Great Falls, Montana, that the EPA should not attempt to regulate greenhouse gas emissions on its own, but should wait for...
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Gallup: Unemployment rate back over 10%
Acceleration. In yet another harbinger of tomorrow’s official jobless report, Gallup shows a sharp increase in unemployment for September, pushing their estimate of joblessness to 10.1%. The pollster...
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Rasmussen: Angle leads Reid 50/46
Sharromentum? Rasmussen joins a series of fresh polls showing renewed momentum in the Senate race in Nevada for challenger Sharron Angle over incumbent Harry Reid. Two weeks ago, Reid held a one-point...
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Even MSNBC.com wants distance from MSNBC
Who can blame them? How bad has MSNBC’s brand become? Even the website which serves as its platform wants a name change: NBC Universal and Microsoft, the parents of MSNBC.com, are holding high-level...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Kerry Picket, Mary Katharine Ham, John Randall
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Kerry Picket of the Washington Times joins us to give us the latest from Capitol Hill. In the second half hour, Mary Katharine Ham rejoins us to...
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Democratic firewall shows fear of GOP wave’s amplitude
Gnarly. Democrats have begun bragging that Barack Obama and other party leaders have begun energizing their base and ramping up GOTV efforts, pronouncing that they will hold the House and Senate, and...
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Video: The Gingrich-Pelosi food fight
Party of foodstamps vs party of paychecks? Well, it’s not exactly Animal House, but watch what Newt Gingrich does here. He draws a fairly clear delineation between Democrats and Republicans by calling...
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PPP: Obama crashing in blue states
Collapse. Barack Obama isn’t just having problems in red or purple states in this midterm cycle, as it happens. Public Policy Polling, usually seen as a Democratic-leaning pollster, says that even in...
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Reason TV: Obama flunks education reform
Cost-benefit analysis. When Barack Obama took office, he declared that education was his highest priority and launched the Race to the Top initiative that Obama said would transform our schools....
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Obama to pocket-veto stealth bill that would make foreclosures easier for banks
Hmmmm. Shady congressional procedures and a one-size-fits-all federal “solution” that’s guaranteed to generate a ferocious populist backlash? Why, it’s ObamaCare all over again! Actually, I think...
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New Christine O’Donnell ad: “I know how tough it is to make and keep a dollar”
"What I'm made of." She’s really working the everyman angle here. Perhaps … too much? Jim Geraghty: O’Donnell begins, “I didn’t go to Yale.” Er, no, but she’s been accused of serially misrepresenting...
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European intel, Pakistani diplomat: Obama’s exaggerating the terror plot for...
Hmmm. Hey, remember when questioning the timing of terror plots was cool? A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not...
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Hmmm: Palin meets with 50 national conservative leaders in Florida
"This was an indication that she's strongly considering running." If it’s a day ending in “y”, it must be time for another “Sarahcuda’s probably running for president” post. Only two possibilities...
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