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Rahm Emanuel Sounding Like a Republican
Rahm Emanuel wants to take leadership of the Democratic Party and capture its nomination for president in 2028. He shares his thoughts in a recent… Read More
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Democrats Have Lost Touch With FDR, LBJ, and Truman, Emanuel Says
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois — In casual conversations with Democrats in August from across the Midwest, I found that their biggest frustration with the national party is… Read More
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The Hysterical Style in American Politics
The post-Joe McCarthy era and the candidacy of Barry Goldwater once prompted liberal political scientist Richard Hofstadter to chronicle a supposedly long-standing right-wing “paranoid style”… Read More
The Obamacare Big City Bailout
Bloomberg reports this week on the latest Obamacare trend sweeping across the country: Cities and states may soon attempt to unload unsustainable health costs on… Read More
Union Strong-Arming Rewarded in Chicago
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has ended its seven-day strike, agreeing to a contract negotiated by the union and the school district. At the expense… Read More
Chicago Teachers’ Strike Contradicts Principle of Public Service
Students at Chicago schools are spending another day at home today, after a 700-page court filing against the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) was sidelined for… Read More
Chicago Teachers’ Strike: Unthinkable and Intolerable
“Unthinkable and intolerable.” So President Franklin Delano Roosevelt considered strikes by government employees. Karen Lewis, the president of the Chicago Teachers’ Union (CTU), has a… Read More
Morning Bell: 25,000 Chicago Teachers Walk Off the Job
This morning, about 350,000 students in Chicago Public Schools will be without teachers. While the 25,000-plus unionized teachers take to the picket lines in a… Read More
FACT CHECK: Have 4.5 Million New Jobs Been Created Under Obama?
It’s no secret that employment is the top concern for Americans. It stands to reason, then, that politicians will be hyping their proposals for job… Read More
Arizona Immigration Ruling Prompts Push for Lax Immigration Policies
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision that upheld a section of Arizona’s immigration law, several U.S. cities and at least one state have… Read More
Can You Find Nancy Pelosi in this Picture?
Back in July 2006, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA) appeared at a gas station in Washington, D.C., to draw attention to the high price… Read More
We’re All Capitalists Now?
Probably not permanently, but the economic policy excerpts from Rahm Emanuel’s stump speech last Saturday could lead one to believe that: . . . we… Read More
Fun in the Sun at Biden’s Beach Party
What does Vice President Joe Biden do on a hot summer day in Washington, DC, while a major environmental disaster has left the Gulf of… Read More
Sestak Job Offer Violated Federal Law?
Federal statutes seem to contradict a memorandum from the White House counsel released on Friday that claimed that no law was violated when Rep. Joe… Read More
Sestak Memo Only Raises More Questions
Robert Bauer, the White House Counsel, has released a two-page memorandum in response to the controversy involving Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) and the promise by… Read More
For Obama, Some Unions Are More Equal Than Others
The Service Employees International Union takes the top prize as President Obama’s favorite labor union. President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger have visited the… Read More
Secret Obamacare Senate Negotiations End on Day 13 – Reid Announces Deal
The secret Obamacare negotiations have come to an end in Day 13th and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced today that the insiders have… Read More
What is the White House’s Fox News End Game?
It has been an interesting and puzzling couple weeks watching the White House communications office at work. First, on October 11, Anita Dunn publicly rebuked Fox… Read More
Morning Bell: A Whole New Health Care Ball Game
You have to read all the way to page A-25 in today’s New York Times to learn about it, but the Senate took its first… Read More
Morning Bell: Exposing the Obamacare Shell Game
In his primetime health care address before a Joint Session of Congress, President Barack Obama promised the American people: “I will not sign a plan… Read More
The Senate’s Health Care Shell Game
According to the Associated Press, at the direction of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Senate Democrats are plotting to pass a bill, by… Read More
Harry Reid and the Chamber of Secrets
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nalRPJctQE4[/youtube] “My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government…Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.”… Read More
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Quote of the Day: WhiteHouse.gov on Fox News “Lies”
For even more Fox lies… This is how the White House capped off a “Reality Check” on their website earlier today responding to commentary on… Read More
Could 2010 Census Include Make-Believe People?
Left-leaning groups want to include millions of pretend people in the real-life 2010 Census. It almost happened in 2000. This time, they might get their… Read More
Morning Bell: Big Government Backlash Brewing
3,000 in Hartford, CT. 8,000 in Madison, WI. 2,000 in Jacksonville, FL. 2,500 in Boise, ID. 5,000 in Sacramento, CA. And many, many more. If… Read More
Morning Bell: The Pelosi-Obama-Reid Trillion Dollar Debt Plan
Last Friday we warned you about some family planning provisions tucked away in the House stimulus bill. Some conservative lawmakers then took up the issue… Read More
Morning Bell: Temporary Tax Cuts, Permanent Spending, and “Trillion Dollar Deficits for Years to Come”
One of the biggest challenges President-elect Barack Obama faces in the years to come is how to both enact “swift and bold” changes to public… Read More
Rahm’s Plan for Mandatory Service
There has been a small uproar around Obama’s call for a “civilian national security force” especially one “that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just… Read More
