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In the primary elections yesterday held in Indiana, North Carolina and Ohio (all states carried by President Obama in 2008) there was one defining characteristic. Turnout. Democratic turnout was abysmal…
May 5, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
The Politico is reporting that the Obama administration is in something of a "P.R. panic" about the British Petroleum rig explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico….
May 4, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
President Obama found time in his schedule (after the White House Correspondent's Dinner last night) to fly over an oil spill caused by the catastrophic failure of the Deep Water…
May 2, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
President Obama is concerned about the heated rhetoric that accompanies much of the debate about his policies. In a commencement address in Ann Arbor, Michigan today the President asked the…
May 1, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
Charlie Crist, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Arlen Specter share one thing in common. During the glory days of early 2009, when President Obama was still basking in the full awesomeness…
April 29, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
How long will the Obama administration kick the can down the road regarding the financial crisis in Greece? The financial debacle enveloping that country is not a problem that can…
April 28, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
The Politico has an exhaustive piece out today on the growing rift between the White House Press Corps and the Obama administration. There are quite a few comments by members…
April 28, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
Senator Carl Levin (D- Michigan) will hold his Goldman Sachs inquisition tomorrow after a weekend of prepping the political battlefield with the release of thousands of GS emails meant to…
April 26, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
John Fund has a must read article in the Wall Street Journal today that serves as a reminder to Republicans and the Tea Party that an election can't be stolen…
April 24, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
Daniel Henninger at The Wall Street Journal has an interesting take on why the Democrats see a demon under every bed. In an opinion piece that describes why race baiting,…
April 23, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
As Jay noted below, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is catching a lot of heat for going after the primary source of the state's fiscal woes: bloated public employee salaries…
April 22, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
Now that it's been disclosed that the SEC commissioner's vote to sue Goldman Sachs for fraud came down to a party line vote, the action takes on the appearance of…
April 19, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
It appears as if the concern about the 2010 mid term debacle that awaits Democrats in the House and Senate is going mainstream now. One of the AP's most ardent…
April 14, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
James Surowiecki at The New Yorker offers up the secret sauce that will save Democrats from a wipeout this November. Got your pencil ready? The Democrats ingeniously back loaded stimulus…
April 12, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
Why is the President's once stratospheric approval level continuing to sink? The predominant meme at work on March 23, 2010, just after passage of ObamaCare was of an ObamaCare Bump…
April 11, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
Yeah, I know a polling firm can design and conduct a poll to fish practically any opinion they desire from the gullible, illiterate masses they routinely cull to produce their…
April 8, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
Rassmussen released an interesting report today that highlighted some trends in todays evolving media. The Rassmussen report indicated that many voters believe that big media may exert a more dangerous…
April 6, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
This is awful. Initial reports say that a massive roof collapse at the Massey Energy Performance Coal Co. operation in Raleigh County, West Virginia caused the deaths of six miners…
April 5, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
Some Democrats went home for the holiday recess and encountered what Politico, to their credit, described as incivility and a forecast for rage. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter and Rep. Paul Hodes,…
April 4, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
New York Times columnist Charles Blow illustrates (not intentionally, of course) why the 2010 midterms may be a blow out of historic proportions for the Democrats. Giving a nod to…
April 3, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
This story should be on the front page. Oh, wait, it is. The Washington Post reports on a phenomenon well recognized by President Obama's critics…the filibuster answer. While this tactic…
April 2, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
The BLS unemployment data released today showed a glimmer of hope. However, drilling into the report some interesting facts jump out. Payrolls rose by 162,000 which is something of a…
April 2, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
Note: This post was put up after Baron's much funnier and entertaining post below. Watch it all. President Barrack Obama fled to the safe confines of CBS' Harry Smith to…
April 1, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
The Politico pretends that there is a fix for CNN. There isn't. In an attempt to breathe life into the corpse, Michael Calderone starts with a false premise: Jon Klein,…
March 31, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
According to Veronique de Rugy at The Corner unemployment was not on the radar screen of liberal politicians when they passed the massive Stimulus bill last January 2009. If the…
March 31, 2010 | Posted by HughS |
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