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Olbermann returns after two nights off on Tuesday
Publicity stunt. So that makes the suspension equal to, what — 40 minutes of air time for every unapproved political donation? MSNBC will put Keith Olbermann back on the air after two unpaid days off...
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Obama shocked, shocked to find true political cost of ObamaCare
Not listening. Maybe he’s just the Reuters of political prognosticators, or perhaps just a bit disingenuous. In an interview on CBS’ 60 Minutes, Barack Obama tells viewers that he found himself...
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NYT: Time to go, Nancy
Missed your sales quota ... badly. Nancy Pelosi’s demand to keep the top job in the House Democratic caucus despite leading it to the biggest electoral disaster in 72 years has run into some unexpected...
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Pawlenty: I’ll run on repealing ObamaCare
Perry attacks Medicaid expansion. If he runs, of course, and CNN’s Candy Crowley helpfully framed her question yesterday to leave that sliver of plausible deniability in her State of the Union...
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Boehner to make debt-limit hike vote stand-alone
Gauntlet, thrown. In the past, House Speakers have treated votes for raising the US debt limit like pirates legendarily treated their loot; they buried it by attaching it to other must-pass...
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Hoyer vs Clyburn for #2 spot in House Democratic caucus
Fighting over the crumbs. In a normal post-election process after a big loss, the party that lost its House majority would shed its previous leader and either look to previous leadership for a move...
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Obama offers compromise on top-tier tax rates
GOP says no to "decoupling." Stung by massive electoral losses in last week’s midterms, Barack Obama has attempted to shift to the center on one major issue facing Congress in its lame-duck session...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Kevin McCullough, John Ziegler
3 pm ET! Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Kevin McCullough joins us again to discuss the intersection of faith and politics. Kevin and I will talk about the impact of the midterm elections,...
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Issa: Whole lotta probing will be going on
Lest you doubted. The GOP takeover of the House holds the nightmare scenario for Democrats of putting Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) in charge of the House Oversight Committee. Issa spent the last two years...
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Gibbs to India: Not Without My Press Corps
An exercise in futility. Poor Robert Gibbs. For the second time in the past year, he has had to resort to threats against his hosts to remove Barack Obama from an event, this time in India, where...
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GOP wooing Manchin into party switch?
Maybe by 2012, he'll make up his mind. Most people only expected hardball efforts to get party switchers in the Senate if it wound up closely divided, either 50-50 or 51/49 in either direction....
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Video: I’m a Denier
Plus, the collapse of Al Gore's carbon commodity trading. Our friends at Minnesotans for Global Warming have a new theme song for the Republicans in charge of the House in next year’s Congress. With...
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Clyburn: Our “very introspective” caucus has concluded that Pelosi is...
The ultimate nuance. Let me just quote a bit here. New from CNN: More money was spent and more commercials were run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in this midterm election cycle than against any...
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Video: Metaphor of the day!
Walkover. No, this isn’t from last night’s Cowboys/Packers game, although middle school ball may very well be Wade Phillips’s next stop. The clip’s banked a quarter of a million views on YouTube in 24...
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Must watch: Dem candidates raise money on air at MSNBC
Glass houses. Wait, didn’t Rachel Maddow assure us on Friday that, unlike those mercenary wingnuts at Fox News who let Republican guests pitch donation URLs on the air, MSNBC is “not a political...
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It’s come to this: Grief counselors meeting with Democrats over election;...
It'll be okay. I don’t know what they’re so depressed about. With Nancy Pelosi back in charge, surely they’re only two years away from a new House majority. A staffer for a congressional Democrat who...
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Obama blows India’s mind with insane teleprompter skills
The one. He’s like Moses coming down off Mt. Sinai with the two tablets. Except, instead of the Ten Commandments, on each one it says, “If you like your plan, you can keep you plan.” President Obama...
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Illinois: We can’t certify Mark Kirk’s win until after Thanksgiving because...
Your government at work. Via Guy Benson. To recap, Kirk finished ahead of Alexi Giannoulias by more than 70,000 votes. Giannoulias not only conceded the race but met with Kirk for a rift-mending...
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Great news: Alec Baldwin might run for Congress
What could go wrong? Is this the next trend — celebrity liberals running for office? If not, why not? They’re self-funded; they have high name recognition; there’ll be plenty of Republican incumbents...
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Good news and bad news: GOP destroyed Democrats among seniors last week
Dilemmas. The good news: If there’s any single demographic you want to clean up in, it’s the one famous for high turnout election after election after election. Jackpot. The bad news: Looks like we’re...
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