Pelosi: Democrats will hit campaign trail with a 'spirit of optimism'

Tin Ears and pride going before the fall
At least, let’s hope : Hours after adjourning a week early and punting on Tax Cuts and appropriations bills, House Democratic Leaders offered a broad defense of their agenda, framing their accomplishments as historic while casting Republicans as obstructionists not worthy of the public trust. Speaking in a studio in the Capitol Visitors Center, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Democratic Congressional...

San Fran Nan: Dems Will Hit Campaign Trail With Spirit of Optimism
Pelosi told reporters yesterday that her radical party members left the halls of Congress this year with a spirit of optimism. Maybe she missed this ad … Democrat Rep. Earl Pomeroy, who voted with Pelosi 97% of the time, is now running a pro-Bush ad in North Dakota. He doesn’t sound very optimistic. The Hill reported: House Democratic leaders on Thursday defended their move to cut the legislative session short so lawmakers could return to the Campaign Trail. In the wake of...

Towey's Hypocritical Hooey: Bush 'Faith Czar' Complains About Politicization Of White House Faith-Based Office
Under James Towey, the White House faith-based office was used to promote Republican Candidates in tight House and Senate races. James Towey, director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under President George W. Bush, had an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal recently carping because President Barack Obama has used his administrations faith-based offices to let Americans know about the New Health-care law. Towey says if he had politicized his...

White House 'enforcer' quits post
US President Barack Obama has announced the Resignation of his hard-hitting Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who is poised for a bid to be mayor of Chicago. Mr Obama said the "least suspenseful announcement of all time" was a bittersweet moment for the White House. Pete Rouse, who served as Mr Obama's Chief of Staff in the US Senate, will be Mr Emanuel's interim replacement. The US president described Mr Emanuel as "one of a kind". Continue reading the main story...

The Incompetence of Robert Gibbs
If you were uncertain about just how inept a Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is, watch this clip . It shows the White House media corps (to its credit) pressing Gibbs to explain how he can blame Republicans for holding Middle-class tax relief hostage when: (a) no bill has been introduced; and (b) House Democrats have enough votes to pass Legislation without any GOP support. The problem Gibbs faces, of course, is widespread Democratic defections from Obama and Pelosis agenda, not GOP...

What Are Superdelegates?
With a close Democratic race for the presidential nominee, the role of delegates and super delegates could become increasingly more important leading up to the Democratic National Convention in August. Former Democratic Strategist David Sirota and political legal analyst Stanley Brand explain why superdelegates are important. Copyright © 2008 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. MICHEL MARTIN, host:...

The Obamacare Follies
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, aka ObamaCare, turned six months old on September 23. Hardly anybody celebrated the occasion, and it isnt hard to figure out why. Last spring President Obama promised Democrats that supporting the new entitlement would turn out to be a political winner. But, like a lot of Obama promises, this ones turned out to be a bunch of baloney. ObamaCare is less popular than it was on the day it was born, and it wasnt popular then, either....

Wicked Witch of Washington Says Demonrats Hitting Campaign Trail With 'Spirit of Optimism'...
Does she really believe the BS she spouts?… (The Hill) — House Democratic leaders on Thursday defended their move to cut the legislative session short so lawmakers could return to the Campaign Trail. In the wake of Republican attacks, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her top lieutenants stood firmly behind their overhauls of healthcare, Wall Street Regulation and Student Loan policies as both historic and fiscally sound. After a flurry of votes on Wednesday and a Campaign...

Obama hails departing Rahm Emanuel, the #$&@)* tough guy who chokes up anyway (SFW)
Rahm Emanuel, the savyy, rough-talking top aide to President Obama , left his White House job today to return to what every Windy City pol regards as the Big Leagues, the nation's No. 3 city where he'll seek to become head of the long-dominant Democratic machine that he once served as a go-fer. He must register his candidacy by Nov. 22. Obama gave his longtime political friend a send-off full of bounteous praise (see full text and video below), and what sounded like a mayoral...

Resting on Their Failures: With No Agenda to Offer, Democrats Left Only to Reflect on a Disastrous Congress
As House Democrats sprint to the exits of the Capitol for an early departure, they leave in their wake a tattered record, unfulfilled obligations, and no answers for Americans looking for plans to create Jobs and Cut Spending. In contrast, House Republicans have offered A Pledge to America , a new governing agenda providing solutions that could be implemented today to address the nations top priorities.  In the week since the Pledges introduction, House Democrats have spun themselves...

News Corp. Gives to Business Group
By NEIL KING JR. News Corp. has made another prominent Election-year contribution, this time a $1 million gift to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The contribution comes roughly four months after the company stirred criticism in Democratic circles for giving $1 million to the Republican Governors Association. It was one of the largest corporate donations to the GOP group this Election season. While not an overtly partisan group, the Washington-based Chamber of Commerce is investing millions in...

US House Whip-Up, Fri 10/1/10: Hoyer reverses, now supports extending ALL Bush tax cuts
Posted by Clyde Middleton on Oct 1 2010 Filed under News & Opinion , Politics . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 . You can leave a response or trackback to this entry HOLY Hoyer!!!! In quite a stunning reversal, last evening Leader Hoyer broke with President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and well himself and announced that Democrats now support extending the current Tax Rates for ALL Americans. As ABC News reports , Leader I was against them...

In tight race for Texas governor, a few voting blocs stand out
In tight race for Texas Governor, a few voting blocs stand out 12:41 AM CDT on Saturday, October 2, 2010 By THEODORE KIM and JESSICA MEYERS / The Dallas Morning News [email protected] [email protected] Texans are bucking tradition in the matchup between Republican Rick Perry and Democrat Bill White. Women, Hispanics, Young urbanites and upbeat voters are highly sought-after in Elections, and most tend to lean Democratic. Elections 2010 Voter Guide: Compare Candidates for Texas...

Where We Went Wrong
Somewhere along the road to a "permanent Majority," the Republican Revolution of 1994 went off track. For several years, we had confidence in our convictions and trusted that the American People would reward our efforts. And they did. But today, my Republican friends in Congress stand on the precipice of an electoral rout. Even the best-case scenarios suggest wafer-thin majorities and a legislative agenda in disarray. With eight days before the Election, House Speaker-in-waiting Nancy...

Big Interview: Goolsbee Defends Obama Record on Business
By Sudeep Reddy The new chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers brushed off business leaders’ criticism of the Obama Administration, arguing that President Barack Obama has repeatedly Cut business taxes and is pushing measures to help companies expand. The president has been under fire from business executives and corporate lobby groups for everything from an alleged personal hostility to business to the details of his high-profile Health-care, Tax and...

Conservatism gone wrong: A WSJ fairy tale
As The New Republic's Jonathan Chait explained back in June, the right has been constructing a narrative in which the failures of President Bush are attributed to a lack of adherence to "real" Conservatism, which by definition can never fail politically or substantively. In an editorial today, the Wall Street Journal tries the same approach to explaining away the defeat of the GOP Congress on Tuesday. First, the WSJ claims "Big Government Conservatism" is a losing proposition and voters...

State-Run Media Wants to Know Why Gibbs Is Not Harder on GOP (Video)
The poor state-run media is at wit’s end. The Obama-Pelosi Socialist Big Government policies of the last two years have been a disaster. We all know it. With the prospect of Congress switching hands in the next few weeks liberal reporters confronted White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs yesterday on why he was not harder on the GOP. Too much. Enjoy the spectacle of Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd and others in the White House Press Corps giving Robert Gibbs grief for not fighting...

Business Interests Quietly Push for Tax Change
By John D. McKinnon Business interests once again are quietly talking up the idea of temporarily lowering the U.S. Tax barrier that keeps multinationals overseas profits parked offshore. The proposal would temporarily lower the Tax on overseas earnings brought back to the U.S. The idea is to encourage multinationals to bring home or repatriate hundreds of Billions of dollars that they now choose to leave parked overseas, often in offshore Tax havens. Under an earlier version of the idea,...

The War on the Young
Last week, in an effort to limit the damage to Congressional Democrats in Novembers Elections, President Obama set out in pursuit of the Youth Vote, traveling to several college campuses to rally the Young Activists who were so important to his Presidential Campaign. What I want to do is just to speak to Young People directly and remind them of what I said during the Campaign, he told reporters on Monday.  But rather than listen to the president talk about what he said two years...

Emanuel Makes Departure Official
By LAURA MECKLER European Pressphoto Agency Barack Obama hugs Rahm Emanuel after announcing that Mr. Emanuel has resigned as White House Chief of Staff and will be replaced by Pete Rouse. In early 2006, when then-Sen. Barack Obama was denying any interest in running for president, Pete Rouse was quietly writing a plan to guide the campaign.   Rahm Emanuel Departs White House 2:47 Former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel left his post at the White House today to return to Chicago, where...

TARP Turns 2
Not coincidentally, at the time TARP was passed Organized Labor was backing Democrats to the hilt in the 2008 Elections, while Wall Street was throwing its money behind both parties. As a result, a handful of union leaders and Wall Street Bankers got rich … while the rest of us were left holding the bag. Now, the Congressional Budget Office and the White House say that TARP will wind up costing Taxpayers only $50-60 Billion. Of course they fail to mention how the government plans on...

HOW ADOPTING the "NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE INITIATIVE" CAN STEAL an ELECTION 'BY HOOK' and 'BY CROOK"
UPDATE 09.29.10: Since I first posted this article on my blog over the summer, Washington, D.C. adopted the National Popular Vote. https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/states.php?s=DC 2010 jbjd Two (2) years ago, even before the DNC Services Corporation held their August 2008 Presidential Nominating Convention, I began posting this warning throughout the blogosphere for the benefit of my fellow citizens who were raising concerns as to whether Barack Obama, Presidential Nominee wannabe...

Democrats defend agenda as they exit Hill
Hours after adjourning a week early and punting on Tax Cuts and appropriations bills, House Democratic Leaders offered a broad defense of their agenda, framing their accomplishments as historic while casting Republicans as obstructionists not worthy of the public trust. Speaking in a studio in the Capitol Visitors Center, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris...

The Seattle Times: Politics: A bare-knuckles politician hulks over Senate race here
Washington — The most powerful U.S. senators run on a high-octane mix of fear and IOUs — they cause the former and collect the latter. For 38 Years, few have been as fearsome or held as many chits as Ted Stevens, the irascible Republican from Alaska. But four days before Christmas, when he tried to cash in those IOUs to approve Oil Drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Stevens found himself stymied by a freshman senator from a Democratic State: Maria Cantwell. The...

CIA Escalates Campaign in Pakistan
By ADAM ENTOUS , JULIAN E. BARNES And SIOBHAN GORMAN Reuters Onlookers in Pakistan's Sindh province after suspected Militants set fire to tankers Friday carrying fuel for NATO Troops in Afghanistan. Washington—The U.S. Military is secretly diverting aerial Drones and weaponry from the Afghan battlefront to significantly expand the CIA's campaign against Militants in their Pakistani havens. The shift in strategic focus reflects the U.S. view that, with Pakistan's Military unable or...