Sure, polls say Obama and his agenda are wildly popular and enthusiastically supported by the public, but if you don’t count black people, you could say Obama and his agenda are merely really popular. They just can’t help themselves. (via email) *** Update *** I officially retire from “shorter” posts and will leave it to …
Archives for April 2009
How Bad Are Things For Jane Harman?
She believes that hiring Lanny Davis as a spokesperson is a step in the right direction: Rep. Jane Harman has hired lawyer Lanny Davis, a former special counsel to President Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky affair, as a media advisor, The Cable has learned. The enlisting of the heavyweight help is the latest sign that …
What really matters about the Specter switch
Mark Halperin thinks it’s how the cast of “The View” feels about it
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Permanent Republican Majority
Via email, this meltdown just keeps getting better and better: Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.’s appearance at a Michigan county Republican Party event was scrapped this week after the county chairwoman said that hosting the moderate Utah governor would mean abandoning the party’s conservative principles. Kent County Republican Party Chairwoman Joanne Voorhees abruptly canceled the party …
The Skills to Pay the Bills
Trouble in paradise: A battle over control of the party’s purse strings has erupted at the troubled Republican National Committee, with defenders of Chairman Michael S. Steele accusing dissident RNC members of trying to “embarrass and neuter” the party’s new leader. Randy Pullen, the RNC’s elected treasurer, former RNC General Counsel David Norcross and three …
Open Thread
Figured there were a bunch of new threads up, so we probably needed one designated for random babble. At any rate, one of the things I have been doing the past couple of weeks is getting into a solid routine of taking long walks in the morning, and since the weather has been so nice, …
Not Long For the Party
I’m not sure how long Olympia Snow will remain a Republican- she just seems too damned sane: It was as though beginning with Senator Jeffords’s decision, Republicans turned a blind eye to the iceberg under the surface, failing to undertake the re-evaluation of our inclusiveness as a party that could have forestalled many of the …