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JANUARY-FEBRUARY  2010 Headlines   

Tea Party Movement:

TheHill: Tea Party trying to recall 12 Dem senators...

Telegraph UK: BRITISH Tea Party Movement to launch this Saturday...

LATimes: Most tea partiers are baby boomers reliving the 60's...

TexasGOPVote: Olbermann invited to Texas Tea Party 1st birthday in Dallas...

HotAir/Allahpundit: Tea Partiers circulating declaration of independence' from GOP...

ChicagoTrib Tea Party will fold when economy revives...

Townhall/Norris: Chuck Norris: happy birthday, Tea Party Movement!..

HotAir/Allahpundit Beating up on Beck, I: Rush takes a swipe...

HotAir/Allahpundit: Beating up on Beck, II: Levin takes a swipe...

RedState: Erickson: DeMint is the leader of the Conservative Movement...

WaPo/Parker: Rubio may be the Republican Obama...

HotAir/Allahpundit: Schwarzenegger: the Tea Party's going nowhere...

"it's about taxation with misrepresentation"  - YouTube clip at 2:27

YouTube/RandyHaddock: Response to Olbermann: 'People of color' at Tea Parties...

PoliticsDaily: GOP would suffer if Tea Party Movement endorses other candidates...

WashingtonTimes: Rubio: Tea Party is not a political party

Fox News: Second Tea Party Convention planned for Vegas in July...

BigGov't: Clinton (and Carville) ready to go after Tea Party leaders?...

WSJ/Rove: Karl Rove: Where the Tea Parties should go from here...

WaPo/Milbank: RNC's ugly date approach to Tea Party meeting...

Politico: Michael Steele, Tea Party leaders' meeting...

Quad-City Times: Tea Party groups take message to Des Moines...

NationalJournal: Polling the Tea Party Movement...

NYTimes: Tea Party Movement lights fuse for rebellion on Right...

"Birthers and Truthers have no place among us" - Erick Erickson

RedState.com/Erick Erickson: A house divided: Erickson bans birthers and truthers from RedState.com...

Las Vegas Sun: Tea Party candidate to challenge Harry Reid for Nevada senate seat... 

LATimes: Tea Party activists filter into GOP at ground level... 

Politico: GOP's Michael Steel to meet with Tea Party leaders...

RealClearPolitics/E.J. Dionne: Tea Partiers are anti-statist radicals...

WashingtonTimes: Moderate Republicans crash Tea Party...

FoxNews: Tea Party jab to be removed from Captain America comic, writer says... 

FoxNews: Anti-Tea Party website part of scheme to funnel funds...

 

Obama/White House

Rasmussen: Obama approval down to 44%...

CNN poll: Majority say gov't threat to rights...

WND: 'Where's the Birth Certificate?' billboards are back...

WND: Homeland Security lost 3 computers a day - for a YEAR...

Breitbart: Top Marine rejects Obama's plan to repeal 'Don't Ask'...

Politico: Biden: It's easy being vice president - you don't have to do anything...

"How long are we going to pretend Joe Biden isn't just some drunk Irishman embarrassing Obama?"  -Ann Coulter

Bloomberg: Obama may ban all foreclosures without review by Loan-Mod program...

CBS News: Obama losing young voter base...

BusinessWeek: Harvard's Rogoff sees sovereign defaults, 'painful' austerity...

WashingtonTimes: Creepy: Is the new missile defense logo a spin-off of Obama logo?...

NewsMax: Jeb Bush says Obama on 'dangerous course'...

NYTimes: Fearing Obama's agenda, states loosen gun laws...

HotAir/Morrissey: Video: God doesn't listen to Joe Biden...

Politico: Obama team privately plots 2012 re-election run...

CNN: Government Motors paying exec $3,000 an hour...

AP: New home sales lowest on record...

HotAir/Karl: Begun, the Toyota War has...

TheHill: Obama agenda brings record payout for lobbyists...

Breitbart: Bonuses up 17% on Wall Street...

Reuters: FDIC reports 27% jump in problem banks...

Reuters: Mass layoff edge up...

MichelleMalkin: Obama wants union thug Stern to head Fed Deficit Panel...

AP: Consumer confidence lowest since 1983...

ABC News: Obama bio by New Yorker editor coming this April...

PhillyBurbs: Colin Powell: Obama is taking on too much...

AP: Dems worried about Obama's track record...

Politico: Toyota: Democrats 'not industry friendly'...

NYTimes: Toyota cited $100 million savings after limiting recall...

Politico: ACORN 'dissolved as a national structure'...

RedState/Erickson: Why the jobs are not coming back...

WashingtonTimes: Obama tops Bush at ducking press: 215 days without press conference...

Politico: FLOTUS, Huckabee all smiles on FOX

Rasmussen: America is...ANGRY!...

TheHill: Obama may fight for public option...

Drudge/AP: Obama jackpot giveaway in Vegas: $1.5 billion housing help...

KTNV: Las Vegas mayor says no to Obama invite...

USA Today: Obama creates panel to tackle deficit, debt...

AP: Another 'unexpected' rise in jobless claims...

Mediaite: Obama will go on Stewart's Daily Show but not Colbert's...

NY Magazine: A pictorial history of Obama feigning interest in mundane things...  SEE SLIDESHOW

Washington Times editorial: Cheney beats Biden...

HotAir/Karl: Obama's bundlers: Jobs for Fatcats program...

WashingtonWhispers: Huckabee to interview Michelle Obama about obesity...

AP: Obama: Stimulus bill saved America...

Breitbart TV: College acquaintance: Young Obama was 'pure Marxist socialist' ...

AP: Alarming homelessness under Obama...

HotAir/Allahpundit: Hoops for Haiti: Scott Brown's daughter challenges Obama to 2 on 2 game...

TheHill: Poll Shock: 52% say Obama doesn't deserve 2nd term...

WashingtonTimes: Obama's 'Doom Save the Senate' tour...

TheDailyBeast: Bayh's departure threatens Obama's re-election...

HotAir/Allahpundit: Obama considering indefinite detention of terrorists without trial...

Fox News: Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama goes nuclear...

ABC This Week: Cheney to Obama/Biden: thank Bush for your Iraq success...

MSNBC: Biden says Cheney is misinformed or misleading...

Politico: Biden slams Scott Brown...  Brown responds: VP's comments 'insulting'...

TheHill: Trial lawyers warn Obama: no tort reform in health bill...

HuffPo: Obama gears up for increased use of Executive Orders...

WaPo: White House revamps communication strategy...

AmericanThinker/Wright: Dear Mr. President: Why we are not hiring...

HotAir/Ed Morrissey: Obama open to tax hikes on middle class...

Politico.com: Stunner: Reid axes bipartisan jobs bill...

RedState.com/Patricia_C: Obama - not Bush - wants to track you by your cell phone...

LA Times/Top of the Ticket: Biden: Iraq is one of Obama's 'great achievements'...

HumanEvents.com/Jed Babbin: Fire John Brennan...

HotAir/Ed Morrissey: Obama's stimulus jobs bill...

RealClearPolitics: Quinnipiac: Obama approval at 45...

HotAir/Ed Morrissey: WaPo/ABC poll shows Obama losing control of the issues...

Politico.com/Doug Wilder: Obama needs a staff shakeup...

ABC News: Dems rake in record donations from corporations...

 

 

Congress/Senate

HotAir/Morrissey: Renewal of Patriot Act sails quietly through Senate, House...

TheHill: Black Caucus revolts against Reid's jobs bill...

FinancialTimes: Senator warns of 'financial meltdown' risk...

AP: Ethics Panel: Rangel broke rules...

Politico: Remembering Tom DeLay: Rangel ruling puts Pelosi in a jam...

CNN: House votes to repeal antitrust exemption for health insurers..

Rasmussen: 10% say Congress doing a good job...

RCP: Jobs bill passes Senate - with 13 GOP votes...

PajamasMedia: Head of EPA, Sen. Boxer throw IPCC under the bus...

WaPo via Drudge: Scott Brown branded turncoat for jobs bill vote...

AFP: Toyota exec apologizes to Congress for safety defects...

NYTimes: "Volcker Rule" for banks shrinks on tepid Congress reaction..

CQPolitics The upcoming Senate brain drain...

Politico: Murtha's absence hits House...   Former Murtha aide plans to run for House seat...

Reuters: Brown votes for jobs bill, joins Dem majority...

AP: Bayh says new Sen. Brown may be 'cure'...

YouTube: Reid: "Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive"...

TheHill: Unions, liberals blast Reid's 'puny' jobs bill...

WaPo:  Retirements in Congress (click for list)...

TheHill: Reid doesn't have the votes for his scaled down jobs bill...

Politico: Pelosi tepid on Reid's jobs bill...

NYTimes: The rattled state of Democrats...

WashingtonPost: Jobs bill - what's in, what's out...

Politico.com: Pelosi vs. Obama...

HotAir/Ed Morrissey: Camelot finally creaks to an end... Patrick Kennedy exits

CNN: Murtha's seat: competitive race brews...

WaPo The Fix/Cillizza: House retirements pile up...

Politico.com: Reid tosses out colleague's End Filibuster bill...

 

 

Midterm/2012 Elections:

DeadLine.com: Big Tuesday: Palin on Leno vs. Romney on Letterman...

NYDailyNews: NY Gov. Peterson pulls the plug on re-election bid, won't resign...

SunSentinel: Is Charlie Crist about to flee the GOP?...   Crist: I'm not leaving the GOP...

RedState: RedState endorses Tim Burns for Pennsylvania (Murtha's seat)...

Politico: Dem plan: online tool to spam Talk Radio airwaves...

JBS.org: McCain wants Feds to regulate vitamins, supplements...

RedState/Erickson: FLORIDA: Crist steals state GOP records, leaks them to press to smear Rubio...

HotAir/Allahpundit: Jeb Bush: Crist's stimulus support is 'unforgivable'...

WaPo: Wall Street shifting political $$$ to GOP...

DallasNews: More than half of Texas Hispanics now identify as 'conservative'...

USA Today: Texas Gov. Perry still leads in primary poll...

Politico/BenSmith: Limbaugh: Romney's endorsement of McCain is suicidal...

TheHill: GOP to pick nominee for Murtha seat March 11...     Bill Russell (R) website     Tim Burns (R) website

LasVegasSun: Poll: passing Public Option would improve Reid's re-election chances...

TampaBay: Abandon ship? Staffers starting to quit Crist's campaign...

Fox News: Bill Clinton: it's starting to look alot like 1994...

CNN: Romney endorses McCain...

WashingtonTimes: Huckabee's blast at CPAC exposes rift on Right...

RedState/Erickson: Daniels 2012?

Politico: Dem race for Murtha seat takes shape...

TheFix/Cillizza: Charlie Cook: "very hard" to see how Dems keep House...

AZ Central: McCain: I was mislead on the bailout [TARP]...

PoliticalWire: Reid surges in 3-way primary...

Rasmussen: FLORIDA: Rubio increases lead over Crist...

TheFix/Cillizza: GOP candidates line up for 2012...

QCTimes: Huckabee heading to Iowa

Politico: Cook Report: House GOP majority a possibility

FirstRead: Top 10 Senate Takeover List...

HotAir/Allahpundit: PPP poll: Romney now biggest threat to Obama head-to-head...

BostonGlobe: Pawlenty's record slammed...

IowaRepublican: Krusty Konservative runs DUI mug shot of Grassley's opponent, Roxanne Conlin...

Twitter/DeMint: "If our leaders cannot agree to the Mount Vernon Statement, they are part of the problem and should be replaced... "

Malkin: An inconvenient question about the Mount Vernon Statement...

HuffPo: Bayh predicts 3rd party candidate could win Presidency...

WashingtonTimes: GOP 'tsunami' predicted for exurban, South, Mountain states...

TheHill: Dems lowering 2010 expectations...

PBS: The Fix's Chris Cillizza on Murtha seat upset...

online conservative petition: The Mount Vernon Statement: online, ready to read and sign...

Rasmussen: Generic Congressional Ballot latest results...

WaPo: SCOTUS ruling scorned...

Politico: Conservative talk shows go after McCain...

Politico: Electoral map: states reverting to red...

HotAir/Allahpundit: John Mellencamp for Senate?...

CBS News: OUCH: Bayh says Congress has not created one new job in the last 6 months...

Rasmussen: California governor race tied...

SCMonitor: Hayworth to go after McCain on illegal immigration...

AZ/DC blog: Hayworth: Obama birth certificate an 'identity theft' issue...

Politico: McCain on Hayworth: 'litany of lies'...

Rasmussen: California: Boxer Senate seat in danger...

Politico: Five ways to lose the Senate majority...

Fox News: Evan Bayh retiring!... 

Politico: Bayh burns Dems...

WaPo/The Fix: Bye Bahy; Senate majority now in play?...

TheHill: Hayworth to McCain: If you bring up Abramoff, I will talk about Keating 5... 

Politico: Romney 2012: rehires communications director...

WashingtonTimes: Right-wing manifesto makes bid to reunify...

FoxNews:  Scott Brown backers eye 2012...

BostonGlobe: GOP's resurgence in New England...

LATimes: Mitt Romney's next reincarnation...

WaPo/TheFix: Pawlenty says GOP 'blew it'...

TheHill: Dems rush to curb corporate election spending before Nov...

HotAir/Ed Morrissey: Glenn Beck interview: Texas gov GOP candidate Medina toys with 9-11 conspiracy... 

Bloomberg: Only 8% want members of Congress re-elected...

WaPo The Fix/Cillizza: Another GOP congressman retires...

Rasmussen polls:  35% say new political party is needed... 

WashingtonPost/TheFix: GOP surging on generic ballot... 

TheAmerican.com: The thirteen senate races to watch... 

 

GOP/RNC:

WashingtonTimes: GOP's 'young guns' target House gains...

ABC: Bush & Cheney meet in Virginia...

WaPo: Capehart scolds GOP's rightwing...

Politico Hey, big spender - Steele's spending angers GOP donors...

AP: Cheney hospitalized for chest pains...   UPDATE: tests show Cheney had mild heart attack...

McClatchy: Anti-Pelosi strategy...

ChicagoTrib: Hastert's perk cost taxpayers $1 million...

Politico: GOP wants televised jobs debate...

HotAir/Allahpundit: Overload: conservative leaders, tea partiers all planning separate right-wing manifestos...

HumanEvents/Babbin: M & M Republicans...

WaPo: New GOP group 'American Action' hopes to mimic Dems' success...

HuffPo: Cheney supports repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'...

CQ Politics: GOP to play recess offensive...

McClatchy.com: GOP's new strategy: filibuster everything to win in Nov?...

TheBostonPhoenix.com: New and improved Romney...

Politico.com: Michael Reagan builds political operation...

TheHill: NRCC's Young Guns List...

WashingtonPost: GOP closing the trust gap with Obama...

Fox News: Mocking Gore over recent snowstorms... 

 

 

Sarah Palin:

TheWeek: Did Jeb Bush diss Palin?...

CBS: Sarah Palin to address NRA this May...

TMZ: Bristol 1, Levi 0...

CNN: Top Palin aide resigns...

WSJ/Brown: Is Palin the 2012 version Jackson 1988?...

NewsWeek: Palin was right about the 'Family Guy' joke...

Mediaite: Sarah Palin on Jay Leno next Tuesday...

SunTimes: Sarah Palin heading to Illinois April 17...

HuffPo/Almonte: Can Hillary Clinton derail the Sarah Palin Express?...

George Will:  Sarah Palin and the mutual loathing society...

Top of the Ticket: Palin's ahead of where Obama was 30 months before his nomination...

ABC News: Palin: Family Guy joke mocking Trig 'a kick in the gut'...  Bristol responds...

HotAir/Allahpundit: Joe the Plumber: I can't support Palin if she supports McCain...

RCP/Kuhn: President Palin's long odds...

BaltimoreSun/Witcover: Palin 2012? Don't laugh it off...

Cohen/WaPo: A North star fades...

WaPo/Balz: Can Sarah Palin translate celebrity into real political power?...

NYTimes/Rich: Palin's cunning sleight of hand...

RedState/Streiff: Palin fear - they're running and they're on fire...

Politico.com: Why the mainstream media loves Sarah Palin...

WaPo/TheFix online poll: 8:50 am: Palin waaay ahead...

WashingtonPost/David Broder: Sarah Palin displays her pitch-perfect populism... 

WashingtonPost: 71% say Palin unqualified to be president... 

Fox News: Reagan brothers feud over Palin, Tea Party... 

FiveThirtyEight.com/NateSilver: A first look at Palin's primary math for 2012... 

 

Health Care Reform:

RedState/Erickson: The Sham Wow Summit...

WashingtonTimes Dems speak 233 minutes; GOP speak 114 ...

HotAir/Allahpundit: Backfire?...

Times UK: Obama bores America into submission...

"I don't count my time because I'm the President"    -Barack Obama

CBS: Obama to McCain: the election is over...

AP: Obama: bipartisan health deal may not be possible...

NRO: Boehner calls on Dems to invite Stupak to summit...

CNN PoliticalTicker: Gingrich bashes healthcare bill...

DailyCaller: Cantor, Stupak: Pelosi's 10-15 votes short of passing ObamaCare...

Politico: GOP: 'no podium' at televised Summit...

HuffPo: DNC chair: GOP call to start from scratch 'is like Dr. Kevorkian giving you healthcare advice'...

McClatchy: Schwarzenegger: GOP call to start over from scratch is 'bogus talk'...

RepublicanLeader.house.gov: Boehner's press release calls Summit an 'infomercial'....

WaPo: GOP list of senators for Summit...

NYTimes/David Brooks: "FISCAL TIME BOMB"...

WaPo/Kurtz: Dr. Obama's prescription...

HotAir/Allahpundit: Does Pelosi have the votes to pass ObamaCare?...

AmericanSpectator: Stupak: Abortion language still 'unacceptable'...

Obama's healthcare proposal: now online

GOP Leader: Boehner: new plan doubles down on failure, puts summit in peril...

CNS News: Obama's bill funds abortion...

TheHill: Obama keeps Sen. Landrieu's 'Louisiana Purchase' in new bill...

Drudge/ThePlumLine: White House warns Republicans: we'll pass health reform via reconciliation... "

Drudge/AP: Bigger, bolder, more tax, more database: Obama in new healthcare blowout...

Drudge/Reuters: Dems vow to Rahm-through healthcare...

Bloomberg: Obama will post health proposal online before summit   Dems may not have health proposal before summit...

HotAir/Allahpundit: It's a trap! Dems near deal on healthcare BEFORE summit even begins ...

RedState/Darling: The ObamaCare nuclear option...

RealClearPolitics: Dems: health care summit no reason to abandon reconciliation...

IowaIndependent: Grassley: Start over on health care...

TheHill: 12 Democrats, 9 Republicans officially invited to health care summit...

WaPo/Pawlenty: Tim Pawlenty: Five ways to reform health care...

Politico/Mike Allen: Obama to post his proposed healthcare bill online before Feb. 25 summit...

GOP.gov: The GOP's proposed healthcare bill...

WSJ/Karl Rove: Rove to GOP: do the healthcare summit...

RealClearPolitics: Pelosi pushes to bypass GOP if it continues to oppose health bill's passage...

RealClearPolitics/Erica Werner: Dems skeptical healthcare summit is answer...

Fox News: Boehner: Why are we going to talk about a bill that can't pass?...

HuffingtonPost: Obama won't drop potential use of reconciliation on healthcare...

 

DEM/DNC:

WashingtonPost: Dems' new strategy: force GOP to go on the record on issues...

Politico.com: Unions bash Dems, warn of political fallout... 

 

Globull Warming:

DailyExpress UK: Climate experts: January was HOTTEST month on record...

Inhofe.senate.gov: Sen. Inhofe releases report blasting IPCC on Climategate...

Guardian UK: Climate scientists withdraw claims of rising sea levels...

AP: UN climate chief to step aside...

HotAir/Morrissey: Did the IPCC fudge the hurricane data, too?...

Wesley Pruden: The red-hot scam unravels...

HotAir.com/Ed Morrissey: Former CRU chief admits warming may not be unprecedented... 

NYTimes: Climate Scientists: the blizzards are from the warming... 

Fox News: Mocking Gore over recent snowstorms... 

 

Homeland Security:

AP: Domestic extremism is Napolitano's top concern...

 

C-PAC Coverage [Feb. 18, 19, 20]

Politico: Huckabee rips CPAC...

YouTube: Funny, insightful George Will speech at CPAC...

"There's never been a poll Ron Paul couldn't win, unless you count a presidential primary race."   -Charles Johnson/LittleGreenFootballs

"We can thank Ron Paul for showing just how worthless straw polls are."   -Erick Erickson/RedState

RedState/Erickson: Highlights of the Glenn Beck speech......

RedState/Erickson: Sound bites from CPAC...

RealClearPolitics: Less than 25% of attendees voted in the straw poll

CNN: Ron Paul wins CPAC straw poll, gets boo'ed...

CBS News: Glenn Beck: GOP needs to admit it has a problem

Politico: Gingrich predicts GOP takeover

Politico/Smith: Who's Pat Boone?

WaPo/Balz, Rucker: A Conservative call to arms...

AP: Rubio, Hayworth spearhead revolt...

CBS News: Pawlenty: Let's do what Tiger's wife did..

Politico/Vogel: Grassroots gain ground at CPAC...

WaPo/Milbank: Rubio, the 'anti-Crist'...

MiamiHerald: Conservative crowd cheers Rubio like a rock star...

ABC News: Cheney at C-PAC: "Barack Obama is a one-term president"...

WaPo: Rubio speech brings conference to its feet...

NYTimes: Surprise showing of Scott Brown at C-PAC...

DetroitNews: Romney: Obama's lost a year for America..

NationalJournal: EXCERPTS: Rubio's C-PAC Speech..

Fox News: Mating dance begins between Tea Partiers, traditional C-PAC stars...

BostonGlobe: The gloves come off at C-PAC...

PalmBeachPost: Crist camp mocks Rubio on eve of C-PAC speech...

HumanEvents/Gingrich: Newt's boiled it down to 22 'solutions' in his Contract from America...

Fox News: CPAC turns up the hip quotient with video games, rap...

WashingtonTimes: Rubio to lead off at C-PAC Conference...

 

Faith:

LifeNews: Focus on the Family leader Dobson retires after 30 years...

 

ISRAEL:

AFP: Iran: Israel wants war by summer...   Netanyahu: Israel not planning war with Iran...

 

Murtha:

RedState: RedState endorses Tim Burns for Pennsylvania (Murtha's seat)...

PittsPostGazette: Former Lt. Gov. ends bid for Murtha's seat...

TheHill: Navy investigating whether surgical error caused Murtha's death...

PittsburghTrib: Murtha's 12th District seat could be eliminated in redistricting...

NYPost/Malkin: The ugly truth about Jack Murtha...

Pitts Post-Gazette: Will Murtha's widow his successor in the House?...

HuffPo/Linkins: Murtha gets full-page send off from corporation he constantly aided...

 

From across the Pond

BelfastTelegraph: Joe the Plumber: John McCain ruined my life...

DailyMail UK: Climategate U-turn as scientist at center of row admits no global warming since 1995...

Times UK: Sarah Palin and Scott Brown set the United States frothing...

 


 

 

 

 

 

WashingtonTimes: Obama labor nominee blocked in Senate...

FoxNews: Anti-Tea Party website part of scheme to funnel funds...

FoxNews: GOP valentines mock Dems...

TheAmerican.com: The thirteen senate races to watch... 

HuffingtonPost: Obama won't drop potential use of reconciliation on healthcare...

Politico.com/Doug Wilder: Obama needs a staff shakeup...

WashingtonPost: Gibbs mocks Sarah Palin's palm-writing at briefing...

Politico.com: Texas Tea Party take-over...

Fox News: Boehner: Why are we going to talk about a bill that can't pass?...

 

Murtha:

Murtha Dead... by Roger Hughes, IPW-PAC Chairman

Feb. 8, 2010…  John Murtha is dead at 77. He served 36 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a political patriarch to Speaker Nancy Pelosi... read full article

NPR:

Murtha special election likely to be May 18...

Guardian UK:

Scott Brown II? Dems fear Republican will take Murtha's seat...

CookPoliticalReport:

Murtha's seat moves to the 'toss up' column...

Politico.com:

Murtha's death turns seat into likely battleground...

ABC News: Dems rake in record donations from corporations...

NPR: Bush 'Miss me yet?' billboard photo is real, not faked...but did it get it's 'inspiration' from conservative political gear shop RightWingStuff.com?

HotAir/Ed Morrissey: White House: our critics are helping al-Qaeda... 

TheDailyBeast: Justice Hillary Clinton?...

HotAir/Ed Morrissey: Chris Matthews warns about charismatic politicians...

FiveThirtyEight.com: Republicans - not Obama - more often on wrong side of public opinion...

WashingtonTimes/Tony Blankley: Smug sages of mainstream politics shouldn't underestimate Palin...

Rasmussen: 75% angry at government - up 9 pts. since Sept...

Gallup: Obama poll numbers hit new low...

Grist.org/David Roberts: The unheralded significance of the Audi 'green police' ad...

Obama's wake-up call...

House GOP to Obama: we'll meet on healthcare if you agree to start over...

Obama, congressional GOP in staring contest over healthcare...

Plouffe to the rescue...

Suddenly transparent? Obama announces televised health meet...

Illinois Dem [Scott Cohen] withdraws from race amid furor...

hmmm...'Beginning of the end. Sarah Palin hijacks the Tea Party movement'...

NY Post: Sarah's Tea talk sounds presidential...

DallasNews: 15,000 people at Palin-Perry rally...

TheHill: Palin says she's not a 2012 frontrunner...

Time/Halperin: 11 similarities between Palin, Tea Partiers...

Salon: The pitbull in lipstick is back...

 

FOX News Sunday-Sarah Palin interview: transcript...

5 lessons from the Tea Party Convention...

Frum: Republicans must embrace the vital center...

Tea Partiers turn on Ron Paul...

Pawlenty uncertain about 2012 run...

Breitbart, Farah argue 'birtherism' at Tea Party convention...

RedState/Erickson: Palin must disavow 'birthers'...

 

Poll: GOP dominates in voters' trust issues...

WashingtonTimes: Budget Buster Express...

 

Palin keynote speech coverage:

YouTube.com: 

watch the full video of Palin's kenote speech

 

FOX News: "Palin goes after Obama"...

FOX News/Ratner: "Palin serves up red meat in the buckle of the Bible Belt"...

Politico/Vogel: Palin says Tea Party is future of American politics...

NY Times: "Palin assails Obama"...

NPR: "Palin says Obama policies to be short-lived"...

WashingtonPost/blog: "Palin looks trim, fit and brimming with energy and plans"...

LA Times: "Palin - 'this is about the people'"...

Townhall: "Palin brings convention to its feet"...

Huffington Post's snarky coverage of Palin's speech...

WorldNetDaily: "Palin warns Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda reflects worldview out of touch with enemy"...

CBS/blog: "Palin says Republican Party should absorb the Tea Party"...

AFP: "Palin whips up a storm at a Tea Party"...

Al Jazeera: "Sarah Palin, the icon of US conservative politics..."

BusinessWeek: "campaign-style speech"...

Reuters: "Conservative darling Palin"...

The Atlantic: "Palin gave a campaign speech"...

TheGuardian/UK: "Queen Tea Party... running for president"...

Newsweek: "Why Sarah Palin won't be running for president"...

 

Tea Party Convention coverage:

Tancredo slams Obama, McCain...

Tancredo laments Obama's 'Socialist Government'...

Farrah again questions Obama's birth location...

Tea Party group unveils political arm...

Palin's risky bid to lead Tea Party...

Meet the participants...

Obama admits healthcare overhaul may die on Hill...

Al Franken lays into David Axelrod...

Michelle Obama under fire for 'fat' daughters comments...

Rasmussen: 'Tea Party' candidate would beat Dem in Texas gov. race...

GOP lawmaker's budget plan gets Obama's attention...

George Will: Healthcare demographics and spiraling deficit and China...

Obama offers alternative path on healthcare...

GOP leader rejects White House terms for deficit commission...

Tea Party leaders to unveil national strategy for grass-roots organizing...

EU no longer charmed by Obama...  French Pres. Sarkozy trashes Obama...

Top of the ticket Cohen's rap sheet stuns Illinois Dems...

Big Bang explodes on Democrats...

GOP strategy after Massachusetts...

Cook Report: 25-35 seat gain by GOP in House...

Scott Brown: seat me NOW!!   Scott Brown: sworn in...

Sarah Palin: Why I'm speaking at the Tea Party Convention...

Poll: What Republicans believe...

Senators warned of major attack on U.S. soil by July...

'King of Pork' Rep. John Murtha in intensive care...  UPDATE: Murtha's condition improves...

Hospitalized Murtha - political future in doubt?...

Poll: Democrats fall to 7-year low...

Dems Durbin, Schumer vying for Harry Reid's spot...

Dems have nearly 2-to-1 cash advantage for 2010...

The GOP '09 pace...

Obama's budget seeks an end to tax break for the middle class...

Backdoor taxes to hit middle class...

Palin: Fire Rahm Emanuel for 'retard' slur... Rahm Emanuel apologizes...

Federally-mandated health insurance? Not in the State of Virginia!...

Obama's budget set to trap GOP as Party of No...

Noble Peace Prize Obama seeks $$$ for nuclear weapons work...

Sarah Palin endorses Ron Paul's son in Kentucky senate race...

Sarah Palin magazine hits newsstands, convenience stores...

Poll: only 19% think Obama achieved first-year goals...

The Scott Brown action figure!!...

Dems see '94 healthcare nightmare repeating...

Jeb Bush 'looking presidential'???...

Obama cans man-to-moon missions funding...

Religious centrists bail on Obama

Poll: 65 - 87% now hold populist, or mainstream, views...

Gingrich's 527 PAC hauls in $6.4 million...

Sarah Palin's PAC raises $1.4 million...

Obama vs. House GOP (televised!) - Round 1 goes to Obama...

RNC adopts watered-down purity test for candidates...

Post-speech poll shows voter disbelief of Obama's claims...

ObamaCare - competing stories:

Pelosi says votes are there with changes, costing additional $300 billion...

Dems to use 'nuclear option' - ready for reconciliation (Zombie healthcare bill is out of its grave)...

Et tu, Obama Girl?

Economy growth 5.7% - fastest since 2003...

Big jump in GDP may veil weakness in economy...

Bin Laden agrees with Al Gore??? Lectures U.S. on global warming...

Pawlenty's PAC raises $2.3 million...

Romney's PAC: $2.9 million last year...

FirstRead's 'Top 10 Primaries' to watch...

Obama orders justice to move 9/11 terror trial out of New York...

CBS/SuperBowl anti-abortion ad: NOW vs. Palin...

Bachmann pulls out of Tea Party Convention...

UK paper: Obama gets an 'F' for world leadership...

Senate reappoints Bernanke as Fed chairman...

Sen. Feinstein says Obama should move terror trials from NYC...

Iran & nuclear sanctions: doc reveals scope of EU trade with Iran...

AP's whoppers from Obama's SOTU speech...

Transparency? After Obama rips lobbyists, K Street insiders get private briefings...

We don’t quit,” Obama said, “I don’t quit.”   That’s the same as Bush’s “Stay the course.”
-'ladasha'/commenter

Dems aim more flak at Obama...

"As long as Obama, Pelosi, and Reid keep jamming us with socialist policy,
you will see more and more ad hoc groups putting up a fight."
-Rep. Steve King (R-IA)

Palin: Obama was lecturing, not leading...

NPR poll shows vulnerability of Obama/Congress...

"With the big-bang strategy officially a failure, Obama’s speech revealed in real-time
a president groping for a new and more effective one" -John Harris/Politico

Chatter speculates Hillary Clinton run in 2012...

State of the Union address highlights:

transcript

Embattled Obama declares: I don't quit...

Obama calls for repeal of military's 'don't ask, don't tell'...

Justice Alito mouths 'not true' during speech...

 

Chris Matthews: "I forgot he was black tonight"...

Dem vs. Dem anger goes public in prime time...

 

Hillary Clinton skips State of the Union address...

Jonah Goldberg’s State of the Union Speech game rules...

Hillary signals she's a one-term Secty of State...

Obama's State of the Union speech tonight...

Joe Wilson says he'll be quiet tonight...

Beck: which President Obama will give State of the Union Address?...

RNC meeting: 'purity' resolutions on the agenda...

DEM strategy: split GOP and Tea Party movement...

NRCC targets Plouffe, Obama's '08 campaign manager...

Obama resurrects Plouffe to mastermind 2010 midterm elections...

CNN poll: ObamaCare down 20 points...

GOP to introduce their healthcare reform bill...

Iowa's Grassley to vote 'no' on Bernanke 2nd term...

McCain challenger is a 'birther'?...

Pelosi and Reid plot secret plan for ObamaCare... AP version of story here

Gingrich's new 'Contract with America'...

Hmmm: Obama will call for 3-year freeze on domestic spending...

flashback: Obama ridicules McCain's call for spending freeze...

Obama copies Bush 'sweetheart' deals: gives no-bid military contract to DEM donor...

Dec. home sales down 17% - biggest drop in 40 years...

Rothenberg: GOP on pace to pickup 28 House seats in Nov...

Obama: 'the big difference' between '94 and now is 'you've got ME'...

Obama most polarized first year presidency...

The "Ellie Light" mystery: identifying the pro-Obama astroturfer...

'Bush-Bashing' no longer effective...

Biden's son, Beau, won't run for Senate...

Obama nightmare could keep going...

GOP stealth campaign helped elect Scott Brown...

PPP's 2012 poll: Huckabee 45, Obama 44...

Poll: voter anger drive results of Mass. election results...

Chris Dodd: Dems might need a month off from healthcare reform to regroup...

FirstRead predicts: Top 10 Senate Take-Overs for 2010...

Vulnerable DEMS ask Congress, Obama to extend the Bush tax cuts...

Obama seen as anti-business by 77% of investors...

Obama's approval rating down to 45%...

Harkin's no-filibuster bill is coming...

McCain back up above 50% in Arizona senate race...

Obama's political realignment of America is over. We no longer believe that he will
"change the world" and "transform the country."  
-Mort Zuckerman

DEMS done 'swallowing their anger with President Barack Obama'...

"Every state is now in play" -Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)

RE Supreme Court ruling on campaign spending: Ben Ginsberg warns of extinction of political parties...

Nuts versus the Creeps...   Ted Kennedy took his era with him  -PeggyNoonan

Change is in the air? 3 Blue Dog DEMS now support GOP measure to block global warming regulation...

Obama calls for biggest regulatory overhaul since 1930...

Geithner has concerns over proposed bank limits...

NBC News files complaint with White House over ABC's access...

AirAmerica off the air, files for bancruptcy...

SARAH PALIN and Bristol on Oprah Show tomorrow...

Pelosi/House reject Senate's healthcare bill...

SUPREME COURT ROLLS BACK CAMPAIGN SPENDING LIMITS...
 
Supreme Court's brief

“They misunderstood the election, and they misunderstood the rules of governing,” said Newt Gingrich...

DEMS plan new bill to limit impact of Court's ruling...

57% of Americans want Congress to start from scratch...

Obama announces new banking regulations coming; Stock Market tumbles...

Der Spiegel: 'The world bids farewell to Obama'...

Other states' races suddenly turning against DEMS....  MISSOURI   CALIFORNIA

Is Tommy Thompson going to take out Russ Feingold in Wisconsin?

Scott Brown heads to Washington D.C. - first meeting with John McCain...

Game changer on terrorism? Brown could block DEMS' attempts to close Gitmo...

Fallout from the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts:

...TEA PARTY MUSCLE in MASS (Boston.com)

 (...Michael Steel op-ed: just the beginning (WashingtonTimes)

...Bipartisan talks a thing of the past (WashingtonTimes)

...Team Romney among Mass. winners (Politico.com)

...Armey says climate now like 1994 (WashingtonTimes)

... Boehner's new chief of staff is 'contract with America' architect (TheHill/blog)

...Hoyer sees new compromise on healthcare bill (CongressDaily)

...DEMS fret 'every state is in play' (Politico.com)

 

66% say country is on the wrong track...

Obama's first year: What went wrong...

Kiss of death? Obama will campaign for Harry Reid...

Oh my: jobless claims rise 'unexpectedly'...

DEMS propose $1.9 trillion debt increase...

Hillary hits 58% favorables...

John Edwards admits out-of-wedlock paternity...

Scott Brown speech:  text

Barney Frank deals potential death blow to healthcare...

COAKLEY CONCEDES TO BROWN in MASS. Senate RACE...

Palin: "Mr. Brown goes to Washington... in a pick-up truck, no less!"...

"This is a giant wake-up call"  -former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe

Boehner predicts 'end of Obama agenda'...

Sen. John Kerry warns of 'dangerous atmosphere'...

Obama to take 'combative' approach to Brown win...

CBS poll: 71% don't want Palin to run in 2012...

CNN: White House is predicting Coakley loss to Brown...

WH plans to cram Senate bill down House's throat if Coakley loses...

Brown win could spark legal battle over Kirk's vote...

Meanwhile, where's Mitt???...

Final PPP poll: Scott Brown 51, Martha Coakley 46...

National Tea Party Convention: keynote speaker Palin NOT taking a fee to speak...

Obama's first year by the numbers...

Desperate? DEMS use World Trade Center image in anti-Brown ad...

Desperate II? Read Andrew Sullivan's comment below:

Ben Nelson asks for bribe to be removed from ObamaCare...

What if all 50 states get Benn Nelson's deal?...

ANOTHER DEM retiring from House...

Tea Party take-over of GOP?...

Peggy Noonan: the Obama 'disconnect' with American public...

OBAMA GOING TO MASSACHUSETTS... Tapper tweets Obama to Mass. on Sunday...

Obama robocalls for Coakley: outcome of ObamaCare depends on this...

Scott Brown run in Mass.: money & help from GOP pours in...

see also

Boston Globe misrepresents Brown comment on Tea Party...

New poll: Brown leads in Senate race...

Brown race a blueprint for GOP success?...

Brown raising $1 million a day this week...

Could Brown victory kill ObamaCare?...

Schumer pulls 'Tea Party' card on Brown...

Axelrod blasts Rove in op-ed...

Predictable: Union members will be exempt from ObamaCare's 'cadillac tax' on health care premiums...

Obama tells DEMS economy, healthcare will HELP them in midterms...

GOP: we'll take back the House...

Obama wins more cuts in spending than Bush...

50% polled say they won't vote for Obama in 2012...

Newt Gingrich handicaps the 2012 field...

Michael Barone: Obama lovers vs. Tea Partiers...

Pawlenty headlining big conservative gig this March...

Daschle-dasher John Thune in 2012 mix...

RedState.com's Erick Erickson worried about Tea Party convention's impact on Sarah Palin...

Sarah Palin signs on with FOX as 'contributor'...

CBS poll shows Obama approval at 46%...

Republican running for Ted Kennedy's seat raises $1 million in 1 day...

Boston Herald endorses GOP Scott Brown...

DEMs launch full court press in Mass. race...

CBS poll: ObamaCare hits new low...

Dodd: Healthcare overhaul 'hanging by a thread'...

Is the country swinging to the Right?...

Huckabee's 10 reasons GOP will win in 2010...

Rasmussen: 51% still blame Bush for economic woes...

Lott-Reid double standard...

Reid apologizes for 'negro' comment...

Palin headlining first ever Tea Party Convention Feb. 4-6 in Nashville...

Steele's book caught GOP leaders by surprise...

GOP operatives see Romney, not Palin, as 2012 nominee...

Self-identified DEMS below 50% for first time since 2005...

Harris poll: McCain still leads GOP...

Gallup polling: Conservatives finish 2009 as No. 1 ideological group...

Obama approves tax onhigh-end healthcare plans...

CBS News: Obama reneges on healthcare transparency...

CNN Cafferty rips Obama on failed openness vows...

Tea Party takes down Florida GOP head... warns of repeat...

Big donors abandon GOP and Michael Steele...

Michael Steele's 'honest injun' comment sparks backlash...

'60th yes vote' Ben Nelson: "We should have waited on healthcare"...

60% believe president will be Republican in 2012...

Top 10 political questions for 2010...

Pelosi won't allow C-SPAN to televise healthcare congressional negotiations...

Obama vowed 8 times to televise healthcare...

GOP recruits for 2010 abound...

5 more Senate DEMs vulnerable...

Shocker retirement threatens DEM's control in Senate...

Barred again: no new contracts for corrupt Murtha-tied firm...

Double shocker: now Sen. Dodd is retiring from Senate...

DEM governor will not seek reelection...

GOP nat'l chairman doubts Republicans can retake House in 2010 elections...

David Brook's 'The Tea Party Teens' column (it's just a reaction to the educated class) slammed...

Chris Matthews: "Every single 'teabagger' in America is white"

Murtha-tied company wins sole-source vaccine contract...

Tea Party to strike in two weeks...

GOP up 9% on generic ballot...

58% say Congress doing poor job...

Are health care mandates unconstitutional?

Palin up 8 points in Alaska...

GOP retirements in House may affect party's gains in Nov...

Rassmussen poll: DEMs reach new low...

10 campaign themes to watch...

DEMs rip Rassmussen polling...

The prospects for revolt in 2010...

DEMS' worst nightmare - terrorism on their watch...

25 politicians to watch in 2010...

DEM political recruit exodus continues...

GOP poised for comeback in 2010...


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