Here is David Axelrod (PDF), speaking with CBS’s Bob Shieffer this weekend:
BOB SHIEFFER: Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse now we find that this sloppy paperwork by the lenders may have made some of these foreclosures now that are being contemplated invalid. Some of the
Mudslinging about undisclosed campaign donors and the potential for foreign interference reached a new pitch yesterday in an already surprisingly heated national debate about campaign finance.
David Axelrod promises it will happen:
White House senior adviser David Axelrod predicted on Monday that Congressional Republicans will ultimately “blink” in the tax cut debate as the deadline approaches for all rates to rise to Clinton-era levels.
Days before Florida’s primary, President Obama finally did what Rep. Kendrick Meek’s (D-Fla.) supporters had been begging him to do for some time: He showed up in the Sunshine State and referred to Meek as “the next senator from the state of Florida.”
[Congress1] But the in-person endorsement came More…
A day after the Senate approved sweeping financial reform legislation, White House senior adviser David Axelrod affirmed that President Obama is considering progressive favorite Elizabeth Warren to lead the consumer financial protection bureau.
Warren is “obviously a candidate to lead this effort,” Axelrod said on a call with reporters this More…
The Washington Post is pretty sure that Obama’s advisers are congealing around abandoning Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian court. Apparently President Obama has yet to make a decision. If he goes back to the military commissions for KSM and the other 9/11 conspirators — military charges More…
The Washington Post runs a breathless piece of Kremlinology arguing that Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, “is a force of political reason within the White House and could have helped the administration avoid its current bind if the president had heeded his advice.”
Glenn Thrush has a keen, insightful post on how “Republicans are absolutely killing Democrats when it comes to leveraging the web to go negative,” using the spinning of David Axelrod’s Sunday morning remarks about turning the interrogation of the Christmas bomber over to the FBI as an example. Read More…
That’s the argument made by David Himmelstein, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, who told The New York Times over the weekend that no other proposal being debated on Capitol Hill would rein in the estimated 900,000 medical bankruptcies More…
Over at Human Events, Rowan Scarborough attempts to advance the story, first floated by House Republicans, of David Axelrod’s long-disclosed financial gains from the sale of his political firms, AKP&D Message and Media and Ask Public Strategies.
AKP, which shares Chicago office space with Ask, is now getting contracts
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