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Obama gives up on Bibi?
Learning lessons? The odd-couple pairing of Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu has apparently frayed for good, at least according to Ben Smith’s sources at the White House. As in most breakups, it’s...
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Video: How much can an 800-pound gorilla spend?
As much as you'll let it. When President Obama speaks to Congress in tomorrow night’s State of the Union speech, he’s widely expected to use the opportunity to move to the center, reaching out to...
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Christie turned down SOTU response offer
Controversy forcing a lower profile? Last week, I expressed my surprise that Republican leadership didn’t follow the plan last year for the opposition response to the State of the Union address by...
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Video: Say, there’s something oddly sexual about NY Mag cover story on Obama
Silly endings. Happy endings? Yes, I have heard the term before in connection with so-called “massages,” mainly from Curb Your Enthusiasm (mentioned here by Mika Brzezinski in her own defense) and The...
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Breaking: Court boots Rahm off ballot
Oops. With just four weeks to go and a commanding lead over his rivals on the ballot, Rahm Emanuel appeared to be coasting to a victory in Chicago’s mayoral race. Today, though, an appellate court...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Kevin McCullough
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 Gosnell case, the March for Life,...
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Huckabee says to count him out of early debates
Media wants to "sucker" candidates. Good for Mike Huckabee … assuming he sticks to his guns if the rest of the Republican field doesn’t follow suit. The runner-up in the 2008 sweepstakes says he won’t...
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Immelt the wrong CEO for Obama to follow?
Innovation vs. stagnation. Barack Obama revamped his recovery advisory board last week to focus on job creation, and put GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt in charge of it. Obama hopes to show a greater focus on...
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NY Times on Dr. Gosnell: Serial Killer a Bad Housekeeper
Burying the lede. Sunday the NY times published its second article about the Philly abortion clinic of Dr. Gosnell. The headline is Squalid Abortion Clinic Escaped State Oversight and that’s a pretty...
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Rubio: Why do we need a Senate Tea Party Caucus?
Questions. This shouldn’t be held against him, but it probably will be. The caucus members are Rand, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah and South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, who backed Rubio’s fledgling Senate...
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Rahm: I will kill any @#$!*% man who stands in my way
Dedication. I kid, I kid. He didn’t say that; that’s what he was thinking while droning through this very politic “we will prevail” statement. A few points to add to Ed’s post from a few hours ago....
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Are you ready for Senator Olbermann?
What could go wrong? I heartily endorse the idea, for four reasons. (1) What better way to herald the new Age of Civility than by drafting a guy known for comparing Al Qaeda favorably to Fox News and...
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The motion picture event of a lifetime: Pawlenty 2012
Dude. Via Dave Weigel, who explains why the over-the-top melodrama here might seem … familiar. And no, it’s not because this feels like a trailer for the sequel to “Air Force One.” My favorite part:...
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The obligatory “Chinese pianist plays anti-American tune at White House?” post
Hmmm. Skip ahead to 5:40 of the clip from last week’s dinner to watch him play the key bit. This story’s now three days old and I still haven’t seen a definitive account either corroborating or...
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Of course: Obama abandons plan to bring up Social Security reform in SOTU
Leadership. Remember, this is the guy who once famously said that he’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-termer. Putting the country back on a fiscal footing that’s even...
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Hawaii governor figures out that he’s barred by law from revealing Obama’s...
Sigh. Lemme see if I have this right. Everyone with an even casual interest in the Birther saga knows that Hawaii law bars the state from revealing someone’s long-form birth certificate without his/her...
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Bounce: Obama’s approval rating now above 50% overall — including among...
Dude? It’s not just one poll and it’s not just liberal polls. Rasmussen has him at 52 percent among likely voters, his highest rating since October 2009. CNN puts him at 55 percent in a poll of all...
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Obama’s climate change czar leaving White House
Gone. This’ll be spun as part of the standard midterm turnover inside the administration, but the big difference between her and people like Axelrod and Gibbs is that they’ll be replaced. She might not...
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Quotes of the day
Sneak preview. “President Barack Obama will call for new government spending on infrastructure, education and research in his State of the Union address Tuesday, sharpening his response to Republicans...
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Obamateurism of the Day
The Big Me. Today’s entry comes from Jonathan Last at the Weekly Standard, who noticed this passage from New York Magazine’s profile of Barack Obama and his efforts to show humility and responsiveness...
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