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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2010 5 Comments
Eric Robinson, author of the Black Bracelet hit piece on Sarah Palin, has written a response to the criticism (emphasis mine): Author’s Note: In my column in the News Wednesday, I criticized former Alaska governor Sarah Palin for wearing a black memorial bracelet with her...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 08, 2010 16 Comments
Nate Silver, January 5, 2010, Wicked Awesome Thoughts on Massachusetts Special Election: Rasmussen is supposed to have a poll out tomorrow (Tuesday) on the Massachusetts Senate Special Election, which will take place on the 19th. There’s been some speculation, mostly from Republican blogs but also...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2010 33 Comments
At one level, Obama and his supporters have played the “Birther” issue brilliantly. By refusing to release his birth certificate and by equating a demand that Obama release his birth certificate with being a racist, Obama has created the single most toxic charge that can...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 06, 2010 34 Comments
As readers of this blog already know, I am cursed with two of the looniest Congressmen in existence, Patrick Kennedy in my home state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and Maurice Hinchey in Ithaca, NY, where I live during the academic year. In the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 05, 2010 9 Comments
Scott Brown’s election destroyed the Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. It would have been enough. Brown’s election may have prevented the national disaster known as the Democratic health care bills. It would have been enough. Brown’s election has killed the national disaster known as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 04, 2010 8 Comments
Barack Obama held a question-and-answer meeting with Democratic Senators yesterday to field questions about where the administration is heading on various initiatives. I posted yesterday about Obama’s clueless answer to Blanche Lincoln’s comment that her constituents feel like no one in the administration understands what...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 03, 2010 9 Comments
Almost as if on cue, DailyKos, Steve Benen, Andrew Sullivan, Sam Stein and others are pushing hard on the meme that Republicans are “crazy” and Taliban-like in their ways. The “crazy” findings are based on a poll commissioned by DailyKos using the same pollster which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2010 5 Comments
Today is the day to print Sitemeter histories, apparently. So here is mine, with a month of January likely never to be repeated. Unless Scott Brown runs for President, or something. I wish I were a better person, and could blog forward even if no...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2010 7 Comments
Did you hear, Scott (we now all know who he is, no need for last names anymore) “refuses to rule out” running for President in 2012? And he’s just been elected to the Senate, OMG, get headline ready: Brown: ‘Humbled’ by White House Talk, But...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2010 8 Comments
Paul Krugman is completely clueless. I’m watching him now on Sunday Morning with Barbara Walters. Krugman bemoans the fact that in our democracy, unlike in western Europe, the House cap-and-trade and health care bills already would be law. Krugman blames it all on that messy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 29, 2010 9 Comments
Why the sudden slew of attacks on the Supreme Court, specifically Justices Alito and Roberts, by leading Democrats? The decision in the Citizens United case, which struck down on First Amendment grounds some legislative restrictions on campaign speech by corporations, is the excuse but not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2010 13 Comments
State of the Union speeches regularly infuriate the opposing party, and to that extent Barack Obama met and exceeded expectations last night. One aspect of the speech deservedly is receiving most attention: The crude attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court in front of the Congress...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2010 7 Comments
I’m actually enjoying reading NY Times columnists these days. The wonders never cease, this time from MoDo: The New One is the shimmering vessel that we are pouring all our hopes and dreams into after the grave disappointment of the Last One, Barack Obama. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2010 9 Comments
From Hotline On-Call (h/t): Aides to Sens. Paul Kirk (D-MA) and Kay Hagan (D-NC) tell Hotline OnCall they will vote for Bernanke’s confirmation. There is an elected and qualified successor to Paul Kirk. His name is Scott Brown. Martha Coakley has conceded the race, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2010 16 Comments
What would one call a political strategy which depended upon portraying the majority of Americans as crazy extremists? The answer is: The current Democratic Party strategy which ignores the meaning of the Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts races, and focuses on smearing opponents as extremists...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2010 7 Comments
My new favorite source of screen shots has outdone itself, with this post and headline The first senator of the reality show era: The text of the Politico post has nothing to do with reality: Brown’s arrival reflects a fundamental change in American politics, the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2010 6 Comments
A lot of people have been playing Waterloo in the wake of the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts. That’s history. Here’s the future. An exclusive preview of Obama’s upcoming State of the Union address this Wednesday (btw, we’ll be “live” again): Where are those happy...
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