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PSA: SNOW CANCELLATIONS, FOREIGN POLICY EDITIONSnow cancellations....Date: 08 Feb 2010 20:12:01 ESTNELSON WILL BACK GOP FILIBUSTERDem says he'll support filibuster over Obama's nominee for the National Labor Relations Board....Date: 08 Feb 2010 19:43:34 ESTREMAINDERS: MAG SALES DROPMore bad news for magazine industry....Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:51:19 ESTNRCC EXPANDS YOUNG GUNS PROGRAMOn Monday the National Republican Congressional Committee announced a new round of candidates had been added to its “Young Guns” recruitment program for meeting fundraising and campaign organization benchmarks to receive additional support from the party....Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:21:16 ESTCONGRESSIONAL DINNER POSTPONEDCongressional Dinner postponed....Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:21:13 ESTDIPLOMATICALLY, GATES OPPOSES FRENCH SUB SALE TO RUSSIADiplomatically, Gates registers opposition to French sub sale to Moscow....Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:11:14 ESTREPUBLICANS HAVE QUESTIONS FOR OBAMAThe top two Republicans in the House delivered a series of pointed political questions to the White House the day after the president announced a bi...Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:11:06 ESTSEBELIUS: OBAMA'S BIPARTISAN MEETING WILL SPEED REFORMSebelius: Obama's bipartisan meeting will speed reform...Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:11:01 ESTWAPO'S FLETCHER LEAVING WH TEAMWaPo shaking up political team....Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:10:55 ESTHOUSE CANCELS TUESDAY VOTESAnother winter storm bears down on Washington....Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:10:49 ESTOBAMA'S FAREWELL TO "TOUGH-AS-NAILS" MURTHAObama's farewell to Murtha....Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:52:37 ESTPENCE ENDORSES RUBIOHouse GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence became the latest national Republican to endorse former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio's campaign for the U.S. Senate Monday....Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:42:30 ESTNAMES: ENVOY TO PAKISTANVeteran diplomat tapped for Islamabad job....Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:42:23 ESTSTOPPING TRAFFICA "Get Motivated" "seminar" with Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, and Colin Powell has <a href="http://www.myfoxhouston.com/d...Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:42:18 ESTPATERSON DENIESWith everyone in town scrambling to match a New York Times story that doesn't (yet) exist, the governor talks to the Associated Press:...Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:42:11 ESTREMAINDERS: HIRESRemainders from Feb. 8, 2010....Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:42:03 ESTS.C. GOP UNITES WITH TEA PARTYState Republican Party announces it will share resources and coordinate messaging with tea party groups....Date: 08 Feb 2010 16:41:21 ESTROGERS AND MURTHARogers, on the passing of Jack Murtha....Date: 08 Feb 2010 16:31:52 ESTWHY OBAMA'S MEETING IS UNLIKELY TO YIELD MUCH BIPARTISANSHIPWhy Obama's meeting is unlikely to yield much bipartisanship...Date: 08 Feb 2010 16:31:43 ESTTEA PARTY GOPAndy Barr reports that the South Carolina Republican Party has established a formal relationship, of sorts, with local Tea Party groups:<br /> <br...Date: 08 Feb 2010 16:22:36 EST
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HUFFINGTON POST
NAOMI KLEIN: WE MUST STAND WITH TIM DECHRISTOPHERDear Friends, The epic fight to ward off global warming and transform the energy system that is at the core of our planet's economy takes many forms: huge global days of action, giant international conferences like the one that just failed in Copenhagen, small gestures in the homes...Date: 08 Feb 2010 20:11:41 ESTCHRIS WEIGANT: HIDDEN DANGERS OF CITIZENS UNITED RULINGIn the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, there has been a lot of anxiety over what elections will now look like with corporations and unions free to spend as much as they like on political advertising. Much of the discussion focuses on...Date: 08 Feb 2010 20:11:30 ESTPAUL HELMKE: GUNS AND STARBUCKS: ESPRESSO SHOTS, NOT GUNSHOTSWhat would your reaction be if you and your kids walked into the local Starbucks and, while contemplating the choice between a latte and a mocha cappuccino, you noticed several fellow customers had semi-automatic pistols and ammunition magazines hanging from their hips? This scenario has...Date: 08 Feb 2010 20:02:13 ESTTEA PARTY TURMOIL: INTERNAL CONFLICT PLAGUES MOVEMENT FOLLOWING CONVENTIONThe Tea Party war -- the internal one -- continues. Following the weekend convention sponsored by Tea Party Nation, a social networking site for tea partiers, a rival site, Tea Party Patriots, sent out an email message to its members complaining about the "media frenzy" around the conventi...Date: 08 Feb 2010 19:23:10 ESTDANIEL CLUCHEY: CONSERVATIVES' NETWORK MOMENTThere is a special circle of hell reserved for self-hating intellectuals, bright minds who have opted to poison the well of political discourse in this country rather than engage in the sort of vigorous national debate that would in a better world serve as the awesome engine of American dem...Date: 08 Feb 2010 19:23:01 ESTOBAMA'S HEALTH CARE SUMMIT: MERELY POLITICAL THEATER?WASHINGTON — Could this turn into something more than political theater? President Barack Obama's televised dialogue with Republican lawmakers on health care, promised for later this month, has the makings of an entertaining exchange. But the differences between the basic Democratic a...Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:50:55 ESTARIANNA HUFFINGTON: THE TEA PARTY 600: CANARIES IN THE POLITICAL COAL MINE?There was much to mock about this past weekend's Tea Party convention: the low turnout, Tom Tancredo's repulsive immigrant bashing, a conspiracy-drenched documentary claiming the financial crisis was deliberately engineered by radical 1960s ideologues bent on bringing down capitalism, and,...Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:50:50 ESTLANAE ERICKSON: GRANDMA KNOWS BESTAn elderly woman sits with her grandson. She begins to tell the story of her family and her Catholic faith. She talks about her core values and says, "Marriage to me is a great institution. It works, and it's what I want for my children, too." The camera angle widens to reveal the woman'...Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:50:39 ESTJOHN HICKENLOOPER LEADS SCOTT MCINNIS IN FEBRUARY RASMUSSEN POLLIn a round of polling conducted February 4, Rasmussen Reports found Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper with a 4-point advantage over his Republican rival, former congressman Scott McInnis. The poll, which has a 4% margin for error, showed Hicknlooper with a 49%-45% lead over McInnis with 6% un...Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:31:25 ESTPRO-CHOICE LICENSE PLATE ADVOCATED IN VIRGINIA: SUPPORTERS THREATEN LAWSUITRICHMOND, Va. -- Abortion-rights advocates have been unable to halt the "Choose Life" license plate variations in nearly two-dozen states, so now they're working to balance the bumper debate. Activists are pushing a "Trust Women/Respect Choice" license plate in Virginia, which would become...Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:31:19 ESTREMEMBERING THE 'MURTHQUAKE': WHEN JOHN MURTHA TOOK ON THE IRAQ WARThe passing of Rep. John Murtha (D-Penn.) on Monday from gall bladder surgery complications brought to an end one of the most dynamic careers of the political generation that emerged from the Vietnam War. The 77-year-old lawmaker and warrior, who remained an officer in the Marine Reserves...Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:31:12 ESTRICK AYERS: CONSTRUCTING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAPThe problem of the "achievement gap" in public education is the most vexing problem on the agenda today. Many people look at this gap -- in grades and test scores between people of different races and family incomes -- as a mysterious and intractable problem with no discernable solution....Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:31:04 ESTSTEPHEN MO HANAN: COLIN POWELL CHANGES HIS TUNEAs a member of the Harvard Class of 1968, I approached my 25th Reunion in 1993 with some misgivings over the honoring of Colin Powell. Echoes of distaste for the Shah of Iran's presence at my own Commencement reinforced my current views on militarism in general, and Pentagon homophobia in p...Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:20:57 ESTFRANCES MOORE LAPPE: JUSTICE THOMAS' REASONING -- DANGEROUS FOR DEMOCRACYThe normally closed Supreme Court opened a crack last week, as Clarence Thomas defended the 5-4 decision clearing away limits on corporate spending to influence elections. "If 10 of you got together and decided to speak, just as a group," he said, "you'd say you have First Amendment right...Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:20:49 ESTOBAMA'S APPROVAL RATING HITS A NEW LOW: POLLPresident Obama's approval rating continues to slump, according to a new Marist University poll out on Monday. The poll showed that 44 percent of registered voters approve of the job Obama is doing as president, while 47 percent disapprove. According to the polling Web site, Pollster.com...Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:02:24 ESTPATERSON AFFAIR SCANDAL? NEW RUMORS OF BUFFALO MISTRESS AS GOVERNOR DENIES RESIGNATION REPORTSAnother day, another unconfirmed report of scandal brewing in the Paterson administration. While New York Magazine quotes an unnamed source as saying that the eagerly-anticipated New York Times story will be "PG-13, not XXX," new salacious reports of yet another alleged affair bubbled up t...Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:41:44 ESTJUDITH ELLIS: WHAT'S IN A NAME?Glenn Beck accused President Obama of being a radical because when he transferred to Columbia he went back to using the name that his parents had given him at birth. BECK: He chose to use his name, Barack, for a reason. To identify, not with America -- you don't take the name Barack to ide...Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:41:36 ESTBUSH BILLBOARD LOOMS OVER HIGHWAY (PHOTO)George W. Bush is back...in billboard form. Hovering over I-35 near Wyoming, Minn., is an ominous/how'd-anyone-take-him-seriously pic of the former president with the question, "Miss Me Yet?" There have been no reports as to who is behind the billboard. For all we know Bush put it up after...Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:41:30 ESTWHAT'S NEXT FOR MURTHA'S CONGRESSIONAL SEAT?After the death of Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) on Monday, what happens to Pennsylvania's 12th district congressional seat? Murtha died Monday at the age of 77 after complications from earlier gall bladder surgery. Just last week he became the longest-serving member of Congress in Pennsylvania...Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:41:21 ESTTOM MATZZIE: JOHN MURTHA SHOWED US HOW TO BE STRONGI hope that we will remember John Murtha for his strengths. It is a good way to encourage others in Congress to show strength. Murtha did something very important on Iraq--he showed leadership when there was a lack of it. He took a risk when others were hiding. And he admitted a mistake (hi...Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:41:14 EST -
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FIRST LADY IS TACKLING CHILDHOOD OBESITYAfter laying the groundwork for nearly a year, first lady Michelle Obama launches a campaign on Tuesday against childhood obesity that she hopes will change the way millions of Americans eat, exercise, look and feel. Michelle Obama - Obesity - United States - Health - Conditions and Dise...Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:42:42 ESTREP. JOHN MURTHA, D-PA., DIES AT 77A spokesman says Democratic Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a retired Marine Corps officer who became an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, has died. He was 77. John Murtha - Pennsylvania - United States Marine - Marines - Iraq...Date: 08 Feb 2010 15:21:41 ESTGOP COOL TO OBAMA CALL FOR HEALTH TALKSRepublicans gave a chilly reception Monday to President Barack Obama's invitation to discuss health care in a bipartisan, televised setting later this month, part of the White House effort to revive the stalled legislation. Barack Obama - Republican - President of the United States - Heal...Date: 08 Feb 2010 11:51:55 ESTNYT: OBAMA, GOP SET FOR TV HEALTH SHOWDOWNThe meeting would mark the first time in the long health care debate that leaders from both sides would be allowed to air their ideas publicly. Republican - Health care - Television - United States - Health...Date: 08 Feb 2010 05:50:46 ESTOBAMA: NYC NOT RULED OUT FOR TERROR TRIALPresident Obama says he has not ruled out a New York federal court trial for Sept. 11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but he was taking into account the objections of the city's mayor and police commissioner. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - New York City - Barack Obama - New York - Politics...Date: 07 Feb 2010 19:01:31 ESTOBAMA ADVISER: STOP ANTI-TERROR CRITICISMPresident Obama's top counterterrorism adviser says lawmakers and others are using national security to score political points, defending the handling of the failed Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner. United States - National security - Christmas - President of the United States -...Date: 07 Feb 2010 11:21:12 ESTIT’S REVOLUTION TIME, PALIN SAYSSarah Palin declared "America is ready for another revolution" and repeatedly assailed President Barack Obama on Saturday before adoring "tea party" activists. Sarah Palin - Barack Obama - President of the United States - United States - Republican...Date: 07 Feb 2010 03:31:20 ESTPALIN TO OBAMA: ‘STOP LECTURING’Sarah Palin had some pointed advice to President Barack Obama during her speech to the inaugural national "tea party" convention. Sarah Palin - Barack Obama - President of the United States - United States - Republican...Date: 06 Feb 2010 23:10:48 ESTOBAMA: I’M NOT GIVING UP ON HEALTH REFORMPresident Barack Obama seeks to assure despondent Democrats he would not abandon his commitment to overhauling health care and would work to counter GOP challenges. Barack Obama - Health care - President of the United States - United States - Politics...Date: 06 Feb 2010 13:01:37 ESTSENATOR: FINANCIAL REFORM IS AT AN ‘IMPASSE’Efforts to tighten financial regulation ground to a halt in the Senate on Friday, casting one of the top domestic policy priorities of the Obama administration in a stark political light. Presidency of Barack Obama - United States Senate - Barack Obama - Senate - United States...Date: 06 Feb 2010 03:41:10 EST"DEMON SHEEP" HAUNTS SENATE RACE IN CALIFORNIAA bizarre campaign ad by Senate candidate Carly Fiorina featuring what has been dubbed a "Demon Sheep" has transcended California politics to become an Internet sensation, but analysts wonder if it was such a good idea. California - Carly Fiorina - United States Senate - Politics - United...Date: 06 Feb 2010 03:11:00 ESTOBAMA HONORS 7 SLAIN CIA EMPLOYEES AS PATRIOTSPresident Barack Obama paid somber tribute Friday to the seven CIA employees killed in one of the worst attacks in the history of the U.S. intelligence agency, calling them patriots who "served in the shadows and took pride in it" before paying the highest cost for freedom. Barack Obama...Date: 06 Feb 2010 03:10:52 ESTIT'S TIME FOR OBAMA TO TELL THE HARD TRUTHNewsweekThe president needs to tell the truth on taxes, entitlements, and how to really reform health care—before it's too late....Date: 05 Feb 2010 22:21:34 ESTRUBIO'S DILEMMA: HOW MUCH TEA PARTY IS TOO MUCH?NewsweekU.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio hopes to harness the movement without getting burned....Date: 05 Feb 2010 19:01:58 ESTWHY THE PUBLIC IS TO BLAME FOR THE POLITICAL MESSNewsweekWho's to blame for the political mess? You....Date: 05 Feb 2010 17:11:56 ESTOBAMA'S BUDGET AVOIDS HARD CHOICES (AGAIN)NewsweekBig government's big shortfall....Date: 05 Feb 2010 11:21:29 ESTADVICE FOR OBAMA FROM A SELF-PROCLAIMED CRACKERNewsweekAdvice for Barack Obama from a self-proclaimed cracker....Date: 05 Feb 2010 09:31:51 ESTHOW POLLSTERS SHAPE DEBATE, MAKE FOR BAD POLICYNewsweekStrategists such as Frank Luntz can make governing very difficult. But smart politicians can learn from their insights....Date: 05 Feb 2010 09:10:51 ESTANALYSIS: WHY OBAMA MUST MEET DALAI LAMAJust a week after enraging China with an arms sale package for rival Taiwan, President Barack Obama risks more damage to this crucial relationship by agreeing to meet with the Dalai Lama in two weeks. Barack Obama - Dalai Lama - China - President of the United States - United States...Date: 05 Feb 2010 08:20:55 ESTNEWSWEEK: SCOTT BROWN LOOKS TO BE GOP PARTISANBrown is a heat-seeking missile aimed straight at Barack Obama, and anyone who thinks he is moved by the bipartisan spirit of, say, Ed Brooke, the moderate Republican of yore from Massachusetts, is deluding himself. This guy is a fighter. Barack Obama - Massachusetts - Republican - United...Date: 04 Feb 2010 20:41:10 EST
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1,000 WORDS FOR PALINFrom the photo editors at the Washington Post:...Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:43:12 ESTNOT A MAN OF THE PEOPLEGarrison Keillor gets taken to the Wobegon woodshed by Chuck Chalberg: But a reader needn't be much of a sleuth to detect another source of anger -- Mr. Keillor himself. Oh, he does his best to hide behind well-cultivated folksiness and well-advertised geniality. But behind it all is anger -- as in...Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:43:03 ESTFL SEN: REP. PENCE ENDORSES RUBIORep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) endorsed Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio today, according to the Rubio campaign. Pence serves as the Republican Conference Chairman -- the third-ranking Republican in the House -- and briefly considered a Senate candidacy of his own this year. Here is Pence's statement...Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:42:57 ESTREP. MURTHA DIESRep. John Murtha (D-PA 12), an 18-term Congressman representing southwest Pennsylvania, died today at age 77. He had been hospitalized for complications related to gallbladder surgery. Murtha's passing will set the stage for the seventh House special election in the 111th Congress, in a district tha...Date: 08 Feb 2010 15:21:53 ESTPENNSYLVANIA REP. JOHN MURTHA HAS DIED. A. HE WAS 77.Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha, the first Vietnam veteran elected to the House, has died. He was 77....Date: 08 Feb 2010 15:03:09 ESTNV GOV POLL: ANOTHER REID WITH AN UPHILL CLIMBPoliticos are still questioning why Clark County Commission chair Rory Reid decided this was the year to run for governor, when his father is having his own political struggles. Sure, the incumbent Republican is in huge trouble. But with Jim Gibbons unlikely to be renominated, a new Rasmussen poll (...Date: 08 Feb 2010 14:02:38 ESTMARIST: OBAMA APPROVAL 44%A new Marist national poll shows President Obama with a 44 percent job approval rating, the lowest in its polling so far. Now 47 percent disapprove of his job performance. The result moves the RCP Average Job Approval to 47.7 percent, near the lowest point. Looking inside the numbers, only 29 percen...Date: 08 Feb 2010 11:42:00 ESTTHE RUMORS IN NEW YORKIn the Week Ahead over at Politics Nation, we noted the potential political bombshell in New York this week, with rumors trickling out during the Super Bowl about a forthcoming New York Times story that may be devastating to Gov. David Paterson (D). Well now, the Lazio campaign is taking the specul...Date: 08 Feb 2010 10:51:43 ESTONE-THIRD OF IOWANS BACK TEA PARTY MOVEMENTLost in the stories coming from the Tea Party convention in Nashville this weekend are some eye-popping numbers from a Des Moines Register poll. A third of all Iowa voters, including nearly half of all independents, say they support the tea party movement. As the Register points out, "The findings...Date: 08 Feb 2010 09:21:39 ESTOH SEN POLL: PORTMAN HOLDS SLIGHT EDGEFormer Rep. Rob Portman (R) holds on to a slight lead over both potential Democratic opponents in a new Rasmussen poll of the Ohio Senate race (500 LVs, 2/5-6, MoE +/- 4.5%). General Election Matchups Portman 43 (-1 vs. last poll, 1/12) Fisher 39 (+2) Und 13 (-1) Portman 42 (-1) Brunner 38 (-2) Und...Date: 08 Feb 2010 08:51:22 ESTNH SEN POLL: AYOTTE +7A new Daily Kos/Research 2000 survey finds Republican Kelly Ayotte as the most competitive opponent to Rep. Paul Hodes (D-N.H.) in the New Hampshire Senate race. Ayotte leads the two-term congressman by 7 points, while Hodes leads Republicans Ovide Lamontagne and William Binnie each by 10 points. Ay...Date: 05 Feb 2010 14:41:22 ESTBLACK HISTORY AND RACIAL DISCOURSEOur latest racial tempest has to do with NBC's black history month meal. For those who don't feel like clicking through, NBC served "Fried Chicken, Collard Greens w/ Smoked Turkey, White Rice/Black Eyed Peas, and Jalapeno Cornbread." It seems like there were really three options for NBC here: (1) D...Date: 05 Feb 2010 14:10:48 ESTNV SEN POLL: REID TRAILS FOUR REPUBLICANSSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid continues to find himself behind in the polls as he seeks a fifth term representing Nevada in the Senate and perhaps another session of Congress as the Democratic leader. A new Rasmussen survey (Feb. 2, 500 LV, MoE +/- 4.5%) finds him trailing four potential GOP foe...Date: 05 Feb 2010 13:22:30 ESTCO SEN POLL: ROMANOFF RUNS STRONGER THAN BENNET VS. NORTONRasmussen's latest numbers in the Colorado Senate race (500 LVs, 2/2, MoE +/- 4.5%) show that appointed Sen. Michael Bennet might not be the Democrats' strongest candidate against former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton, the early favorite on the GOP side. Former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff (D) is runni...Date: 05 Feb 2010 09:51:54 ESTTHE PAWNBROKER AND HIS 'MASSAGE THERAPIST'The saga of the new duly elected Lieutenant Governor of Illinois continues. Of course, this sordid yet comic tale is Grade A stuff for columnists, and the always hilarious John Kass takes to it like a pig to slop....Date: 05 Feb 2010 09:41:31 ESTTHIS JUST IN...Conservative investigative filmmaker James O'Keefe not a racist, left-wing columnist Max Blumenthal not very accurate or ethical....Date: 05 Feb 2010 09:41:26 ESTMYSTERY MEN OF WALL STREETWilliam Cohan names names....Date: 05 Feb 2010 09:41:22 ESTMORE JOBS LOST, BUT RATE DIPSTwenty thousands more jobs lost in January, but the unemployment rate dipped to 9.7%. Decembers job totals were revised downward from 85K jobs lost to 150K. And it looks like things will get worse before they get better: Some forecasts call for the jobless rate to reach nearly 11 percent by year's e...Date: 05 Feb 2010 09:32:00 ESTUNEMPLOYMENT DECREASES TO 9.7%After a couple months of 10% unemployment, Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this morning unemployment decreased to 9.7% in January....Date: 05 Feb 2010 09:10:59 ESTINSIDERS SEE MAJOR DEMOCRATIC LOSSESNational Journal's latest survey of political insiders finds operatives from both parties think Democrats will lose a significant number of House seats this year. Of the Democratic insiders, 45 percent say Dems will lose between 20-29 seats in the 2010 midterm elections, with the average number 24...Date: 05 Feb 2010 08:41:25 EST -
WONKETTE
WRITING ON ONE’S HAND NOW CONSIDERED ‘FOLKSY,’ ‘DOWN-TO-EARTH’Nothin’ quite like a few rich poopbags trying to dissect Sarah Palin’s reasons for scribbling shit all over her hands during a teabagging speech. Disturbed racial theorist Brian Kilmeade offers another story from his dark, repressed childhood on this morning’s Fox & Friends a...Date: 08 Feb 2010 17:43:18 ESTDAVID PATERSON’S INSANE SCANDAL OF DEADLY PROPORTIONS DELAYED TWO DAYSFor the last few days, hype has been building over a New York Times story of “Vicki Iseman Proportions” about New York Governor David Paterson, and how he has sex with ladies and does corrupt things and will have to resign, for having corrupt sex. The Times was going to run the story tod...Date: 08 Feb 2010 16:03:08 ESTMEGHAN MCCAIN’S SEX BOOK: WE HAVE A RELEASE DATE!August 3, 2010! A full 208 pages! Jesus take your time… [Political Wire] Meghan McCain - John McCain - Political Wire - Politics - People...Date: 08 Feb 2010 15:21:58 ESTBOEHNER, MCCONNELL GREET OBAMA HEALTH CARE SUMMIT INVITE WITH LOUD ‘HEY SCREW YOU BUDDY’Barack Obama, the master tactician! Last night, before Super Bowl XXVVVV, he told Katie Couric and (to a lesser extent) America that he would hold a Bipartisan Health Care Summit, live on the teevee, on February 25, and the Republicans would have to show up or… or… or else they’d m...Date: 08 Feb 2010 14:51:08 ESTMAKE PRETTY PICTURES AT THE DSCC WEBSITE!The DSCC has introduced a fun new game. It’s called, “How To Lose Ted Kennedy’s Senate Seat To A Naked Furry,” with paintbrushes! No, it is just a fill-in-the-blank caption contest for Sarah Palin, because she is stupid. Be sure to submit all of your wacky photos to Bob Menen...Date: 08 Feb 2010 14:02:48 ESTLT. GOVERNOR CUTTY DROPS OUT OF RACE, AT SOME BARHere is Democratic Illinois lieutenant governor nominee Scott Lee Cohen, of steroids, prosititutes, knife-cutting, knife-cutting prostitutes while on steroids, etc etc, fame, res… HE’S RESIGNING? He can’t resign — we just ordered three more shipments! Crybabies. [YouTube]...Date: 08 Feb 2010 13:11:37 ESTYOUR OBLIGATORY PHOTOS FROM THE SNOWPOCALYPSEIt snowed. It snowed a lot. But everyone had plenty of toilet paper and kale, and everyone survived the storm in peace and happiness. Sure, some people’s cars got stuck on hills, and some people got stuck in basement apartments, and the storm pretty much rendered the entire city helpless, but...Date: 08 Feb 2010 13:02:13 ESTSARAH PALIN GAVE A SPEECH THIS WEEKEND, AND DID NOT EVEN CANCEL AT THE LAST MINUTE!An historic thing happened this weekend, a first-time ever event that served as an example to millions of Americans who have ever felt down or out! We refer, of course, not to the Saints winning the Super Bowl, but Sarah Palin actually showing up for an event that she headlined. (Historically minded...Date: 08 Feb 2010 09:52:55 ESTHISTORIC SUPER BOWL WAS BETTER THAN SUPER BOWL ADS!Nobody’s entirely sure how many, if any, workers are still unaccounted for in the wake of a power plant explosion in Connecticut on Sunday. [Hartford Courant] The New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl, proving that Barbara Bush was exactly right when she said that the city’s residents w...Date: 08 Feb 2010 09:21:48 ESTWONKETTE EATEN BY SNOW MONSTERS, SO HERE IS SOME PRETTY SNOWPOCALYPSE VIDEOWonkette comrade Matt Welch tried to get across Logan Circle so he could buy, uh, dishwasher detergent at Whole Foods. Super snowy out there! Never forget! [YouTube] Whole Foods - YouTube - Dishwasher - Arts - Movies...Date: 07 Feb 2010 02:51:57 ESTHAW HAW ARUGULA HAW K-LO HAWThis reminds, us, we have to go buy arugula right now, or K-Lo will chop off Active Senator Rick Santorum’s dick! THE SNOW IS STARTING TO STICK. [Instaputz] Rick Santorum - Politics - Government - Republican - Senate...Date: 05 Feb 2010 16:41:44 ESTLIVE FROM THE TEA PARTY CONVENTION, IT’S ‘BUTTON GWINNETT’Nine huzzahs, a bucket of toilet water and a two cartons of Luckies to C-SPAN, for making what appears to be the most comical collection of Tea Party Convention videos thus far — which really shouldn’t be very hard. Here is some Georgia speed freak, bulging eyes and all, dressed like a...Date: 05 Feb 2010 16:22:18 ESTSO, (A) IS RICHARD SHELBY AN EPIC EVIL DICK OR (B) DOES OBAMA HATE AMERICA?So Alabama shitbird Sen. Richard “Dick” “Swett” Shelby has placed a blanket hold on 70-ish Obama nominees, which someone in Harry Reid’s office bothered to tell us all about yesterday. He wants Northrop Grumman to get a contract for a tanker that would bring 1,500 jobs...Date: 05 Feb 2010 15:51:38 ESTTHE SHOW GOES ON DESPITE THE ONSLAUGHT OF SNOW IF WMATA DOESN’T SUCK TOO MUCHSaturday, February 6 through Sunday February 7: Fact: DC has a festival of short films, and the winners from said festival will be screened tonight and tomorrow night as part of the “Best of the Fest” — that is, assuming the snow doesn’t render living impossible this weekend....Date: 05 Feb 2010 14:22:04 ESTOL’ LIEUTENANT GOV. CUTTY DENIES ALLEGATIONS OF LITERALLY EVERY CRIMEHere’s Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Scott Lee Cohen, of “tries to stab and murder his prostitute girlfriend” fame, trying to “clear his name” on the teevee yesterday or maybe today. Also: no alimony payments, steroids… good lord! Was his primary oppon...Date: 05 Feb 2010 14:10:57 ESTUNPATRIOTIC WINGNUTS PUT ‘MY COUNTRY’ IN SCARE QUOTESOur favorite-ever letter-writer “Bob” is back, with an email once again expressing his displeasure with our “paper.” But maybe he is confused? Or maybe he just HATES OUR NATION. As we’ve seen with these shocking new surveys of Republican Opinion, “patriotism”...Date: 05 Feb 2010 13:51:47 ESTBARACK OBAMA WILL MOLEST YOU FROM SPACE WITH HIS VERMIFORM COCKBy the Comics CurmudgeonGuys, it’s come to my attention that you’re all a bunch of lonely sex-starved losers, and that you turn to your Wonkette for brief glimmers of eroticism that will make your sad, lonely lives feel like they might be worth living again! Also, according to our recor...Date: 05 Feb 2010 12:51:16 ESTIMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT TOM CAMPBELLDid you know that Demon Sheep Tom Campbell once impersonated Elvis at a party, just like Rod Blagojevich? And did you know that the person who made Carly Fiorina’s famous ad was one Fred Davis, who also made the terrible “Celebrity” ad (Barack Obama=Paris Hilton, plus phallic symbo...Date: 05 Feb 2010 10:31:45 ESTREADER OBJECTS TO POOR QUALITY OF WONKETTE NEWSPAPERPoor frustrated reader “bob” has clearly driven himself insane, trying to print out this Internet thing. WWW - E-book - Feed Readers - Clients - Handhelds...Date: 05 Feb 2010 09:32:09 ESTEVERYBODY HAS A LOT TO APOLOGIZE FORThe president of Toyota — a tiny but prosperous island nation in Southeast Asia — apologized for selling people murderous demon-cars, but nobody will be satisfied until actual heads roll. [New York Times] Another day of Shia religious festivals, another day of bombings. [BBC News] Here...Date: 05 Feb 2010 09:01:47 EST
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KIDNAPPING OF HAITIAN CHILDREN WAS NO ACT OF CHARITYEugene RobinsonAnyone sitting in a dank, fetid Haitian jail for any reason probably deserves at least a measure of sympathy, so in that sense I feel sorry for the Baptist missionaries from Idaho charged with kidnapping 33 "orphans" and trying to take them out of the country. But what the do-gooders allegedly did...Date: 08 Feb 2010 19:40:34 ESTGSA SET TO ANNOUNCE NEW FEDERAL CAFETERIA CONTRACTSThe General Service Administration will announce this week the winner of the first in a series of new federal cafeteria contracts that encourage the use of healthier food, organic and locally procured food, and advanced recycling and waste management programs. The effort is part of an administrat.....Date: 08 Feb 2010 19:30:47 ESTJOHN MURTHA DIES, SPECIAL ELECTION LOOMSThe death of longtime Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha (D) this afternoon will set off a special election in his very competitive western Pennsylvania 12th district. According to state law, the governor has ten days once the vacancy is officially declared to decide on the date of a special election, wh...Date: 08 Feb 2010 15:20:29 ESTCAN DEMOCRATS DISSUADE DAN COATS FROM RUNNING?In the six days since former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats (R) made clear he was preparing to challenge Sen. Evan Bayh (D) in the fall, national Democrats have unleashed an all-out assault aimed at making Coats reconsider his candidacy. First came a detailed dossier from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign...Date: 08 Feb 2010 14:50:35 EST"SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" TAKES ON THE RAHM EMANUEL APOLOGYAny time Andy Samberg does anything on "Saturday Night Live", we watch. And, when he decides to impersonate White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, we can barely contain our glee. Below is Samberg/Emanuel's "apology" for the impolitic remark he made about disabled people in a health care strategy s...Date: 08 Feb 2010 13:10:34 ESTWHITE HOUSE MOVES TO MAKE THE FILIBUSTER A CAMPAIGN ISSUEThe Senate -- and filibusters in particular -- are the focus of a new White House campaign. Over the past week, President Obama and his senior aides have repeatedly cited Republicans' filibuster threats as the primary reason for the lack of progress on big ticket legislative items, an early sign tha...Date: 08 Feb 2010 10:50:26 ESTMANAGING THE 2010 CENSUS AND PLANNING FOR 2020The 2010 decennial census is just getting underway, but Daniel Weinberg is already thinking about 2020 and how the Internet might be used to collect the nation's population data....Date: 08 Feb 2010 10:10:18 ESTOBAMA TO CONVENE BIPARTISAN HEALTH CARE MEETING ON FEB. 251. The big news out of President Obama's pre-Superbowl interview with CBS News's Katie Couric is that the White House will convene a health care meeting with congressional leaders of both parties on Feb. 25. One notable element of the half-day gathering is that it will be televised in its entirety -...Date: 08 Feb 2010 06:00:59 ESTMASS. WIND FARM THAT OBAMA ADMINISTRATION MIGHT SUPPORT MEETS STRONG RESISTANCEABOARD THE IDA LEWIS -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar journeyed out into Nantucket Sound on a Coast Guard vessel last week to signal the Obama administration's readiness to put some muscle behind wind energy. To do that, Salazar has to resolve a battle over building a wind farm on 25 square mile.....Date: 08 Feb 2010 02:30:14 EST5 WORKERS KILLED IN EXPLOSION AT MIDDLETON, CONN., POWER PLANTCONNECTICUT An explosion that sounded like a sonic boom blew out the walls of an unfinished power plant in Connecticut and set off a fire during a test of natural gas lines Sunday, killing at least five workers, injuring a dozen or more, and leaving crews picking through debris for more possible......Date: 08 Feb 2010 02:30:04 ESTHAWAII OFFERS WARMER WEATHER, YET LESS HOT AIRFreezing cold driving you to distraction? Time to head to Hawaii for the annual American Association of Airport Executives conference for some intensive golf and beach time! The five-day conference, sponsored by the airlines, aerospace folks, lobbyists and other usual suspects, starts Sunday, so mo...Date: 08 Feb 2010 01:30:44 ESTJUSTICES MAY RULE SOON ON CAMPAIGN-FINANCE CASEAfter a holiday break, the Supreme Court returned to work Friday with unfinished business at hand, some of its toughest cases ahead and a looming decision that could rock the national political landscape in this year of midterm congressional elections....Date: 08 Feb 2010 01:30:18 ESTTALK SHOWSGuests to be interviewed Sunday on major television talk shows:...Date: 07 Feb 2010 23:20:33 ESTU.S. SENDS A MESSAGE BY STEPPING UP CRACKDOWN ON FOREIGN BUSINESS BRIBESFederal authorities want companies to know that the cost of paying bribes to win overseas contracts is growing steeper by the day....Date: 07 Feb 2010 23:20:25 ESTOBAMA-BACKED WIND FARM IN MASS. MEETS STRONG RESISTANCEABOARD THE IDA LEWIS -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar journeyed out into Nantucket Sound on a Coast Guard vessel last week to signal the Obama administration's readiness to put some muscle behind wind energy. To do that, Salazar has to resolve a battle over building a wind farm on 25 square miles....Date: 07 Feb 2010 23:20:19 ESTEX-ALASKA GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN DOESN'T RULE OUT RUN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2012Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin did not discount a 2012 presidential campaign on Sunday....Date: 07 Feb 2010 23:20:13 ESTOBAMA INVITES REPUBLICANS TO SUMMIT ON HEALTH CAREPresident Obama moved to jump-start the stalled health-care debate Sunday, inviting Republicans in Congress to participate in a bipartisan, half-day televised summit on the subject this month....Date: 07 Feb 2010 23:20:04 ESTANTI-TERRORISM CHIEF REBUKES POLITICIANS WHO USE CASES AS TALKING POINTSPresident Obama's senior counterterrorism adviser on Sunday criticized politicians for using terrorism situations such as the Detroit bombing case as a "political football."...Date: 07 Feb 2010 21:11:43 ESTAL-QAEDA IS A WOUNDED BUT DANGEROUS ENEMYIn the past six weeks, Americans have witnessed two jarringly different -- but completely accurate -- views of al-Qaeda's terrorist network. One image was that of terrorist leaders being hunted down and killed by satellite-guided, pilotless aircraft. The other was of an agile foe slipping past U......Date: 07 Feb 2010 21:11:38 ESTOBAMA INVITES GOP TO SUMMIT ON HEALTH CAREPresident Obama moved to jump-start the stalled health-care debate Sunday, inviting Republicans in Congress to participate in a bipartisan, half-day televised summit on the subject this month....Date: 07 Feb 2010 21:11:29 EST -
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READING PALIN'S PALMThe CaucusA lot of buzz has been generated by the handwritten notes Sarah Palin used on Saturday night....Date: 08 Feb 2010 19:01:14 ESTIMPENDING STORM POSTPONES HOUSE VOTESThe CaucusThe prospect of another snowstorm forces the House to reconsider votes planned for Tuesday....Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:51:09 ESTMORE INFIGHTING AMONG TEA PARTIERSThe CaucusThe writings on Sarah Palin's palm produce a backlash from some Tea Partiers....Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:31:42 ESTTEA PARTY'S INTERNAL SKIRMISHING FOLLOWS GATHERINGThe CaucusThe writings on Sarah Palin's palm produce a backlash from some Tea Partiers....Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:10:41 ESTSPECIAL ELECTION TO FILL MURTHA SEATThe CaucusThe death of Representative John P. Murtha will put another House seat in play for the midterm elections....Date: 08 Feb 2010 18:10:32 ESTLANSING MAYOR IN MICHIGAN GOVERNOR'S RACEThe CaucusIn his announcement, Virgil Bernero focuses on economic issues including foreclosures....Date: 08 Feb 2010 15:31:44 ESTCONGRESSMAN MURTHA DIESThe CaucusThe Pennsylvania congressman was 77....Date: 08 Feb 2010 15:02:31 ESTRISKS AND REWARDS OF HEALTH CARE SUMMITThe CaucusWhat Republicans and Democrats might find at the bipartisan meeting to figure out what to do about health care....Date: 08 Feb 2010 14:50:54 ESTJOBS BILL EYED BY CONGRESSThe CaucusAction on Capitol Hill will be a bit delayed this week, in the aftermath of the blizzard that gripped Washington....Date: 08 Feb 2010 08:01:35 ESTSAFETY NETS FOR THE RICHBob HerbertWe’ve shoveled money at the rich and given banks and megacorporations everything they’ve wanted for decades, but it’s time to realize that trickle-down economics is a fairy tale....Date: 08 Feb 2010 03:10:25 ESTINVITATION TO DISASTERBob HerbertThe states, which are in the worst fiscal shape since the Depression, will face draconian cuts if they do not receive substantial new federal help....Date: 08 Feb 2010 01:31:24 ESTTHE MESSIAH COMPLEXDavid BrooksDirector James Cameron takes an old formula to a new level in “Avatar.” But is it offensive?...Date: 08 Feb 2010 01:31:16 ESTOBAMA'S BALANCING ACT ON TRADEThe CaucusFacing pressure from Democrats and Republicans, not to mention labor unions, the administration's message is one of ambivalence....Date: 07 Feb 2010 19:50:32 ESTSTORM PROMPTS SENATE TO POSTPONE VOTESThe CaucusOfficials said two votes planned for Monday night would be shifted to Tuesday....Date: 07 Feb 2010 17:01:27 ESTGILLIBRAND SEEKS TO STOP FUNDING FOR 'DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL'The CaucusThe New York senator wants to unveil a proposal to deny federal money for any further enforcement of the policy against openly gay members of the military before a gay rights group on Saturday....Date: 07 Feb 2010 12:01:43 ESTPALIN'S TEA PARTY SPEECHThe CaucusThe 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee extolled the meaning of the new movement in Nashville last night....Date: 07 Feb 2010 09:40:55 ESTOH, BYRON, WE HARDLY KNEW YEGail CollinsTwo Democratic senators quitting at the beginning of the New Year is seen as a terrible portent for 2010....Date: 07 Feb 2010 01:32:01 ESTA SCRUBBED TOE IN THE RACEMaureen DowdHarold Ford Jr., the transplant with the Tennessee driver’s license who was raised in Washington, D.C., professes that he loves, loves, loves, loves New York....Date: 06 Feb 2010 21:01:43 ESTTHE TEA PARTIERS COURT THE FOREIGN PRESSThe CaucusOverseas reporters try to understand the Tea Party movement after Obama's ascension....Date: 06 Feb 2010 20:30:51 ESTTEA PARTY ORGANIZERS EYE THE 2010 ELECTIONSThe CaucusLeaders of the convention in Nashville plan a summer meeting, but also suggest that the best way to influence politics is not through loud rallies....Date: 06 Feb 2010 16:10:44 EST -
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