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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2010 5 Comments

Name a Democratic candidate in this year's election cycle who is generating excitement and buzz, as opposed to hanging on for dear life, hiding from the masses, or hoping SEIU money will save the day.--------------------------------------------Related Post:Arkansas Primary Result in 28 CharactersFollow me on Twitter and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2010 1 Comment

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2010 12 Comments

1. Why did it take until after the Pennsylvania Senate primary for details regarding the offer made to Joe Sestak, and the use of Bill Clinton as the conduit, to leak out?2. Would it have made a difference in the primary? (Did I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2010 14 Comments

Like clockwork, I get in the car for the 6 hour drive from Ithaca to Rhode Island, and news hits the fan.This time, the revelation that the White House enlisted Bill Clinton to do the dirty work of getting Joe Sestak to drop out of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 5 Comments

This was completely unexpected:Friends tell The Daily Beast that the departing senator, injured by Obama's failure to show last-minute support, may well shift right on key votes from Kagan to financial reform.Except to those of us who are attuned to the human condition:--------------------------------------------Follow me on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2010 23 Comments

Joe Sestak says "I was offered a job" by someone senior in the Obama administration in exchange for getting out of the Democratic primary against Arlen Specter."Joe heard what he wanted to hear," said Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell on Greta last night (video below):"And I...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2010 7 Comments

Admiral Joe Sestak's political ship is sinking. Not from loose lips, but the opposite.Sestak has stated more than once that someone in the Obama administration offered him a job if he would drop out of the Democratic primary against Arlen Specter.But Sestak is sticking by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2010 17 Comments

"Unexpected" has become the term of choice for the mainstream media to excuse the Obama administration's economic failures.Yesterday I read an article in The NY Times about something unexpected in Obamacare, and one term jumped out at me (emphasis mine):About one-third of employers subject to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2010 5 Comments

When Arlen Specter switched parties in April 2009 in order to avoid a near certain loss in the Republican primary, it was not hard to guess the outcome, as I did: Specter has become a caricature of the self-interested politician who hides his need for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 6 Comments

You can run, but it's too late to hide anymore:President Barack Obama is trying to ride the wave of anti-incumbency by taking on an unpopular politician steeped in the partisan ways of Washington. It doesn’t matter that George W. Bush left office 16 months ago....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 22, 2010 10 Comments

Can we get back to Richard Blumenthal.Remember him? The DEMOCRATIC candidate for Senate whose multiple lies about serving in Vietnam over the course of multiple years dominated an entire 24 hour news cycle.The guy whose dissembling of his own words was Clintonesque in the extreme,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2010 18 Comments

I'm glad I spent most of yesterday traveling, so that I missed much of the blogospheric tsunami regarding Rand Paul's libertarian views on the virtue of the federal government banning racial discrimination in private businesses.Where I come down on the issue is that the history...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2010 1 Comment

When Democrats get on one of their rants about the dangerous effects of corporate campaign money, what they really mean is that they are against corporate campaign money which might support Republicans.The money which comes from unions to support Democrats is quite alright with them:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2010 3 Comments

No one could have seen this coming. From The New York Times, Voter Insurrection Turns Mainstream, Creating New Rules (emphasis mine):But to suggest that this week’s primaries are just part of the latest revolt against incumbency, brought on by pervasive economic angst, is to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 20, 2010 10 Comments

We really are into dumb territory here, with the Democratic media machine defending Richard Blumenthal on the ground that Blumenthal didn't lie about his service "in Vietnam" every time he spoke about the subject.The story line arises because earlier in the same appearance in which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2010 12 Comments

Richard Blumenthal may have breathed life back into his political career yesterday, with a press conference in which he vigorously defended his record:But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2010 12 Comments

Just ask pro-life, pro-gun clinging, anti-Obamacare, anti-cap-and-tax Mark Critz, who pulled out a victory in PA-12 last night in a district in which Obama is unpopular:The district itself couldn’t have been more primed for a Republican victory. According to one recent poll, President Barack Obama’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2010 25 Comments

If you don't know what "it" is, then go back to sleep.If you do know what "it" is, I'd be interested in your thoughts.Because "good journalism" isn't quite satisfying."Guilty conscience"?"Atoning for sins"?"Providing cover"?Update 5-19-2010 - Here is the punch line to the editorial in The...

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