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Biden: GOP spending/taxing philosophy just like blaming rape victims

By | 03.21.11 | 10:09 am

Rhetoric that defies logic — and tact — is not exclusive to the tea party.

At Friday’s Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser in Philadelphia, Vice President Joe Biden — talking about the federal budget — threw in a rape analogy, as reported by The Hill, calling Republicans who favor More…

Obama: ‘We Will Fight This Spill With Everything We’ve Got’

By | 06.15.10 | 8:18 pm

Addressing the nation from the Oval Office for the first time, President Obama tonight laid out his plan to contain the oil spill and compensate people and businesses who have suffered from its effects.

Obama called the crisis “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced” and “an epidemic, one More…

Obama’s Speech at Cooper Union

By | 04.22.10 | 12:13 pm

Watch live here. And here is the full text:

It’s good to be back in the Great Hall at Cooper Union, where generations of leaders and citizens have come to defend their ideas and contest their differences. It’s also good being back in Lower Manhattan, a few blocks from

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BREAKING: Max Baucus Mumbles Occasionally

By | 12.28.09 | 5:54 pm

So, which respectable media outlets actually ran with the completely baseless, Drudge-driven “Max Baucus was drunk” smear? I count the Los Angeles Times (whose blogger Andrew Malcolm is basically a funnel for Drudge), The Charleston Daily Mail, The Palm Beach Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, More…

A Frustrated Obama Disappoints in Copenhagen

By | 12.18.09 | 12:26 pm

It seems that every time President Obama gives a major speech — up to and including his announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan — pundits and observers call it his “best speech yet.” But that streak appears to have come to an end today as negative reviews of his More…

NY-23: Hoffman on the Stump (VIDEO)

By | 11.03.09 | 11:08 am

WATERTOWN, N.Y. — As I mentioned today in my story, some reporters have been frustrated by how calm, and downright shy, NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman can be in speeches and interviews. The best example of how the media here reacts to Hoffman came in the More…

Rep. Joe Wilson Unearths Secret Plot to Provide Illegal Immigrants with Free Health Care

By | 09.09.09 | 10:32 pm

I guess Rep. “Joe” Wilson (R-S.C.) — actually, Addison Graves Wilson Sr. — found out about that secret Democratic plot to provide all illegal immigrants with free health care.

What else could explain his outburst — “You Lie!” — during President Obama’s speech on health care More…

He Tried to Warn Us!

By | 09.09.09 | 9:50 pm

Rep. Joe “you lie!” Wilson (R-S.C.), on Twitter, Sept. 7:

The Waiting Room

By | 09.09.09 | 5:04 pm

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news.

President Obama will deliver his major health care speech to Congress at 8 p.m. tonight — and the GOP has already begun its spin. The Republican leadership in Congress is blasting the reform effort, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch More…

Newt at Large

By | 06.09.09 | 9:11 am

When President Obama gave his “Muslim speech” in Cairo, the Drudge Report headlined it “6,000 words.” When former Vice President Cheney responded to the president’s speech on Guantanamo Bay and torture, he opened with a joke about how long it was (“In the House, we have the five minute rule.”) More…