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The Speaker Shuttle service’s Friends & Family Program
Culture of entitlement. It’s good to be King — or in this case, Queen. CBS probes the use of taxpayer-funded charter jets by Nancy Pelosi and finds that the Speaker likes to travel in style — and that...
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Blame Bush past expiration date … in Massachusetts?
Boo. Maybe Democrats should have test-marketed the Blame Bush meme before taking it out for a spin in the final week of the midterm elections. After all, if Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) can’t sell in the...
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Bennet camp to radio station: Just ask about how groovy he is, mm-kay?
Subtlety. I’ve been doing talk shows on terrestrial radio for almost seven years, and daily Internet shows for the last three-plus years, and have interviewed hundreds of politicians in that period....
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Bill Maher: These dumb dog-like hillbilly voters certainly are stupid
Aw. Via the ‘Busters, I don’t care about this any more than you do but (a) we could use a mindless palate cleanser; (b) I promised you yesterday that there’d be entertaining lefty tantrums galore all...
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New Joe Miller ad: My opponent’s not a witch, but…
She who will not be named. Behold the media reach of Christine O’Donnell, capable of influencing ads for Senate races thousands of miles away from Delaware. I like the spot, mainly because it lightens...
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Boehner: On second thought, let’s not compromise with Obama
Heh. Remember what he told NPR over the weekend? Quote: “I think the American people want us to find a way to work together to address the concerns that face the American people every day. We’re going...
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Good news: Time travel exists
Dude? To cleanse the palate. Actually, we already knew that time travel exists. Remember this photo? You’ll never convince me that that’s not a modern-day hipster jackass, playing it cool as ever after...
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Karl Rove: Palin’s reality show doesn’t exactly lend her presidential gravitas
It's on. First came the criticism of O’Donnell on the night she won the primary, then came the knock on tea partiers for being unsophisticated, which earned him Rush’s ire. Now this. Is he … trying to...
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Video: The most painfully awkward debate moment of the year
Dude. Via Capital Tonight, meet New York Assemblyman — and Democrat — Bob Reilly. If you thought the last few months of the Dems’ national campaign were tone-deaf, wait until you see ol’ Bob here in...
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Quotes of the day
Coping. “MATTHEWS: Okay I gotta wonder, Chris Cillizza I gotta wonder when people are gonna start wearing uniforms. I mean they’ve got an army out there in Alaska of militia people. You’ve got these...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Chameleon. Yesterday, Barack Obama met a group of five progressive bloggers at the White House. Obama has had some trouble getting his progressive base energized for the election, and so he wanted to...
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Gallup: No movement towards Democrats yet
Kowabunga. Have Democrats made a big comeback in the final days of the midterm election? Barack Obama has conducted a barnstorming tour — mainly of safely-blue districts — attempting to fire up the...
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Video: Mr. Say Anything to get the bill passed
Genius. I’m no fan of television ads, but one of the few I actually enjoy is the Budweiser “Real Men of Genius” spots that poke fun at self-importance and inflated egos. I’m not sure how Bud decided...
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The strange case of disappearing Nevada youth in CNN/Time poll
Spooky. Yesterday, CNN and Time released their final joint polls from five states in the midterm cycle, mostly with good news for Republicans. However, in Nevada, veteran political journalist Jon...
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Survey USA shows GOP leading in all Ohio statewide races
Lock on Senate hold. Like most other pollsters, Survey USA’s final 2010 look at the state of Ohio shows the brief flirtation with blue-state status has likely come to an end. The Democratic incumbent...
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DNC presses Pentagon for records on potential 2012 GOP presidential contenders
Priorities. It’s never too early to do oppo research, apparently. Even before the conclusion of the midterm elections, the DNC has filed FOIA requests for official correspondence between the Pentagon...
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Giannoulias admits to dirty trick with third-party campaign in IL
Bankrupt. Not only did Alexi Giannoulias admit to sending mailers to voters touting the Libertarian candidate in the Senate race in Illinois, he implicated the state Democratic Party in the attempt to...
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Video: Sestak unleashes most potent force in political campaigning
Smells like Democratic-agenda spirit. You know, when we say political candidates sling crap while campaigning, we didn’t really mean it literally — until now. Forget Demon Sheep and Aqua Buddha; Joe...
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Shocker: Bush beats Obama 48/43 in poll
Yes. When I wrote yesterday that the “blame Bush” strategy had reached its expiration date, I had no idea how prescient that was. Pollster Douglas Schoen, who partners with longtime Democratic...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Kerry Picket, Rob Bluey, John Randall
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Kerry Picket of the Washington Times returns to TEMS for all the skinny on Capitol Hill and the elections. She’ll be calling from Nevada, where she’s...
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