September 14th, 2011
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ICYMI: Highlights From Conference Call With Chairman Priebus, NC GOP Chairman Hayes & Rep. Ellmers
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus: “This president is in love with the sound of his own voice, he’s in love with campaigning, he’s in love with fundraising, and he’s in love with the stump. And he’s doing what he loves to do best, which is to go to battleground states, masquerade as official business, use taxpayer [...]
ICYMI: PRIEBUS OP-ED: Solyndra Represents Stimulus Failure
Excerpts from Politico By: Reince PriebusWednesday, September 14, 2011 “As President Barack Obama takes to the road to sell his Stimulus II, troubling news about the last stimulus continues to break. The House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee Wednesday begins its investigation of Solyndra, the stimulus-funded solar energy company that recently declared bankruptcy. The [...]
GOP Must Use Political Victories to Oppose Obama’s Stimulus in its Entirety
The Democrats have provided Republicans with a historic opportunity to go on offense against Keynesian stimulus, and apply jujitsu against the Democrat 2012 playbook – Mediscare tactics. They shouldn’t blow it. Last night, Democrats got wiped out in two special elections; losing by 22% in Nevada CD-2 and by 8% in a New York district [...]
Obama: “If you love me, pass this bill!”
Yes, he is trying to revive the Cult of Personality and make it all about himself. Seriously. He went there. The President tells a crowd he loves them and if they love him they will help him pass his bill. 51% of Americans do not think the President’s jobs plan will create jobs. The voters [...]
Open Thread: Attack Waaaatch!!
h/t @diggrbiii Yesterday on Twitter, the President’s twitter feed promoted the new Obama For America website AttackWatch.com. The above video is a hilarious send-up of the already absurd and redundant snitch site. If you want to have more fun, report yourself guilty on Twitter using the hashtag #AttackWatch. OPEN THREAD
Michele Bachmann Resorts To Junk Science For Personal Advantage
A British medical panel concluded last week that Dr. Wakefield had been dishonest, violated basic research ethics rules and showed a “callous disregard” for the suffering of children involved in his research. Dr. Richard Horton, editor in chief of The Lancet, said that until that decision, he had no proof that Dr. Wakefield’s 1998 paper [...]
Darrell Issa and the Ongoing Fight Against Postal Bailouts
Most Americans by now have heard via numerous press accounts that the United States Postal Service (USPS) is on the brink of default in the absence of Congressional action. Now this does not mean that the mail system is going to shut down all of a sudden. It means that the Postal Service will violate the [...]
Wisconsin Union Hypocrisy: WEAC Accused of Breaking Staff Union Contract
Pot, meet Kettle. While it occupied Wisconsin’s state capitol, the union that represents many of Wisconsin’s public school teachers, WEAC, demonized governor Scott Walker’s government union reform as an attack on collective bargaining. Yet, when WEAC found itself no longer able to forcibly collect union dues without state help, with its forced funding being diminished, [...]
The infinitely avoidable US/UN Palestine showdown.
Now it may be because I’m this horrible, horrible neoconservative Right-Wing Death Beast and everything – but I have to admit: articles like this confuse me. The United States faced increasing pressure on Tuesday as the Palestinian quest for statehood gained support from Turkey and other countries, even as the Obama administration sought an 11th-hour [...]
NY09: Now With Actual Quotes From Democrats
These are actually real and genuine quotes from Democrats reacting to the loss in NY-09: (okay, so I added the last six words to that quote) (This one is actually from Greg Sargent before the election)
