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  • The Palin Emails II

    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Here are three more emails from March 21 - 23, 2008, which I reproduce because of the Dish's long commitment to providing as m...
  • A Mother With A Special Needs Child

    A reader writes: I am the mother of a 16 year-old girl with severe intellectual disabilities. I am disturbed by Mrs Palin's insincere comments when she speaks out for individuals with developmental de...
  • More Empty Threats

    Reza Aslan sums up the pro-Green reaction to Ahmadi's "alarming" nuclear rhetoric from Sunday: These announcements are a joke; they cannot be taken seriously. Not only has Iran thus far barely managed...
  • Running Scared

    Reihan checks in with the latest McCain campaign: McCain has scrambled to crush the [J.D. Hayworth] insurgency, raising money and rallying the troops with a robocall from newly minted Republican folk...
  • Tomorrow Belongs To Her

    Ambers has a devastating and brilliant post on why Palin - "a blend of Nixon and Buchanan", with boobs and a Christianism now fused into Republicanism - is a lethal force in the land. I keep rememberi...
  • President or Bag Man?

    Presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty showed up to give a speech to GOP activists in Alabama on Friday. But he didn't just bring himself. He also carried with him a $100,000 check for the state Republican...
  • What's the Deal with The Ryan Budget?

    We've been reporting and writing a lot about Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) "shadow budget" over the last week. And I wanted to take a moment to explain some of the reasons why. As I've noted before, Ryan is...
  • Reading Is Fundamental

    Sarah Palin favorably cites Pat Buchanan column that says opposite of what she thinks it says. It dovetails almost seamlessly with Stephen Colbert's Sarah Palin "satire" last night. Watch. As long as...
  • Are You a TPM Fan?

    If you can't make it nonstop to TPM every day, there's no better way to keep up on our biggest stories and breaking news than becoming a fan of TPM on Facebook. Just look: all your friends are doing i...
  • TPMDC Morning Roundup

    Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC): A contribution from my leadership PAC is "a seal of conservative approval." That and the day's other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup....
  • Obama campaign head gets big book deal

    David Plouffe has agreed to a seven-figure deal to write a book about last year's presidential election. “The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory” will...
  • Officials turn down Franken request

    Democrat Al Franken is asking the Minnesota governor and secretary of state to issue an election certificate that would let him take office in the Senate.
  • Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent

    The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.
  • Franken lead at 49 with absentees left to count

    Democratic candidate Al Franken now holds a 49- vote lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman with almost all of the counting in Minnesota's Senate race done.
  • Minn. Senate winner won't be known in 2008

    With the state Canvassing Board ready to award the last pile of votes in Minnesota's U.S. Senate recount, Democrat Al Franken clung to a narrow lead over Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. The final c...
  • "A Good Place to Start"

    Following meeting with bipartisan House, Senate leaders Tuesday, Obama says jobs bill is something both parties can agree on. "Keeping in mind what's best for the American people... we should be able...
  • Michelle's Cause

    Obama signs a memorandum on childhood obesity Tuesday morning at the White House. REMARKS: Read them here.
  • "Let's Move"

    First lady launches nation-wide campaign against childhood obesity, says she wants to "eliminate this problem" on GMA Tuesday. Click above to watch. HIGHLIGHTS: Read them here.
  • Extremely Well Sourced

    It won't clothe a single hungry, sick child, but...... ESSENTIAL READING: David Brooks cracks the code of the Obama White House.
  • "Scranton, Pennsylvania, Go Ahead"

    King of CNN and Biden of the Naval Observatory get together Wednesday.
  • What’s Old Is New Again

    A few years ago, few places on Earth were as hellish as Iraq’s Anbar Province. Spanning the country’s western desert, Anbar is best known by its major cities, Fallujah and Ramadi, both of...
  • Down Town

    By last summer, it was obvious that John Murtha did not have much time left in Congress. This was partly due to the efforts of Washington ethics cops and Western Pennsylvania Republicans, both of whom...
  • The Substitute

    It was always going to be tricky for Congress to pass a big climate-change bill this year. And now, post-Scott Brown, the odds are looking even bleaker. A lot of panicky Dems are blanching at the thou...
  • 'Finish the Kitchen'

    WASHINGTON -- If President Obama gets to sign a health reform bill, as I believe he will, one reason may be Rep. Jay Inslee's difficult experience renovating his kitchen. He told his kitchen story at...
  • Nashville Nation

    Sunday, February 7, 3:28 p.m. Among the convention’s several last-minute saves—opening the conference to media, replacing one speaker who fell ill and another who dropped last minute&mdash...
  • About those prosecution statistics...

    ABOUT THOSE PROSECUTION STATISTICS.... As baseless Republican criticism of administration counter-terrorism policies has intensified, the president's team has come up with some pretty straightforward...
  • Tuesday's campaign round-up

    TUESDAY'S CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP.... Today's installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn't generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers. * Any chance Illinois Stat...
  • Too weak and too tough at the same time

    TOO WEAK AND TOO TOUGH AT THE SAME TIME.... I suppose it was only a matter of time before far-right voices started criticizing President Obama for having too much success killing terrorists. Here's fo...
  • Even dumber than we thought

    EVEN DUMBER THAN WE THOUGHT.... Former half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) once claimed to have valuable foreign policy insights to offer because Vladimir Putin had flown over her state. She wasn't...
  • GOP's Wall Street outreach having an effect

    GOP'S WALL STREET OUTREACH HAVING AN EFFECT.... It didn't generate nearly as much attention as Democrats had hoped, but the WSJ ran a provocative item late last week about Republicans trying to solidi...
  • Responding to Ransom Notes

    Ezra thinks that the White House should give into Boehner's and Cantor's demands, "even the ones that don't make any sense," in return for an agreement on up-or-down votes in both the House and Senate...
  • Washington Times: GOP lawmakers privately admit stimulus created jobs

    If there's one thing that unites the Republican Party it's that the stimulus bill was a job-killing piece of legislation that was the worst thing in the whole entire world for the economy, right? Or m...
  • Shelby drops blanket hold, but still blocks Air Force nominees

    Republican Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama has dropped his "blanket hold" on all Obama administration nominees: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has dropped all but a handful of the 70-plus holds he pla...
  • GOP Won't Play if They Can't Win

    Via John Aravosis, GOP House leadership says that if Obama won't agree to starting over from scratch, they won't come to his meeting. They are obviously trying to up the ante on this bill, calling for...
  • Today in Congress. Maybe.

    In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: Majority Leader Hoyer Statement on House Floor Schedule WASHINGTON, DC – House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) released the fo...
  • Despite Reports, TIME Still Not Advocating Internet Driver's Licenses

    That modern marvel, the Internet, has been buzzing for days about the secret plan by the House of Luce, aka Time Magazine, to license everyone who logs into a browser to search the web. Really. You ca...
  • Bring It On

    This photo was taken Sunday by NASA's Terra Satellite. With the federal government shuttered for the second day in a row, Washington D.C. is now expecting another 10 or 20 inches to fall on Tuesday an...
  • Bipartisan or Bi-posturing? Obama Convenes A Rectangular Table

    The meeting has begun, between Republicans Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, Democrats Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, and the senior White House staff, including President Obama. This is th...
  • In The Spotlight, Paul Ryan Faces A Purity Test

    It's been a good couple weeks for Rep. Paul Ryan, the rising Republican star from Wisconsin, as his name is increasingly becoming synonymous with actual Republican policy. Obama called Ryan's budget p...
  • Morning Must Reads

    Hey Swamplanders. As Karen mentioned, I'm going to be chipping in around here. One of the things I plan on doing is a daily "Morning Must Reads" post to share a few things that we're currently followi...
  • First thougths: Gridlock

    Bipartisanship -- or the lack thereof -- is on full display today… Congressional Democratic and GOP leaders head to the White House to talk about the jobs bill… But Boehner and Cantor lay out cond...
  • Obama agenda: Reluctant to participate

    The Washington Post: “Leading House Republicans raised the prospect Monday night that they might refuse to participate in President Obama's proposed health care summit if the White House chooses not...
  • Congress: Murtha passes away

    "Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, a gruff ex-Marine who used his immense power in military spending to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to his hard-luck district and who became an...
  • GOP watch: PAC-men

    “Several possible 2012 Republican contenders are using their political action committees to dole out large amounts of cash to an array of GOP members and candidates this cycle,” CQ writes. “Lead...
  • The midterms: All the right moves

    ARIZONA: The New York Times is the latest to look at John McCain’s shift to the right, given his August primary challenge. “Mr. McCain now sharply criticizes the bailout bill he voted for, pivoted...
  • Whose Side Are You On, USA Today?

    In an opinion piece for USA Today (i.e., this was not a slip of the tongue), John Brennen, Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, writes that "Politically mo...
  • Live! Nude! Economists!

    A new essay by James M. Buchanan, called "Why Economists Have No Clothes" [PDF] which asks "Why have economists had so little meaningful to say about the 2008 crises? Where and when did the ‘sci...
  • Demystifying Net Neutrality

    In a write-up following a debate with Chris Riley of the pro-Net neutrality group, Free Press, the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Barbara Esbin succinctly captures the essence of the Net neutra...
  • Citizens United and the Future of the Roberts Court

    USA Today’s Joan Biskupic reports on what the Supreme Court’s widely-debated ruling in Citizens United v. F.E.C. might mean for the other politically-charged cases up for review this term: "...
  • New at Reason: Greg Beato on Starbucks' Midlife Crisis

    From our March issue, Greg Beato explains why Starbucks has always been most vital, most interesting, and most revolutionary when at its most commercial—just like Seattle’s other great cultural...
  • Pork is in the eye of the beholder

    Republicans haven't exactly been shy about bashing the stimulus bill that passed last year. "This is spending, not stimulus," Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said about it. "Rather than create jobs or...
  • GOP dusts off Bush playbook

    There is something of a master narrative of the early Obama administration currently emerging into view, issue by issue. It goes like this: a given situation is in a disastrous state of disarray when...
  • Colbert takes on Palin's "hand-o-prompter"

    Think Stephen Colbert was impressed by Sarah Palin's speech to Tea Party Nation and her, ahem, handy way of remembering her talking points? Think again:   The Co...
  • Washington snowed out

    The nation's capital has been snowed out. A massive snowstorm ripped through Washington on Friday and Saturday, dumping nearly two feet all over the region, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes with...
  • Rumors or not, David Paterson is in trouble

    The talk in New York political circles -- and, increasingly, in Washington -- is that there's some major New York Times story in the works about Gov. David Paterson. Just before the Super Bowl started...
  • Governor denies drug, sex rumors

    Governor David Paterson defended himself Monday in an interview with the Associated Press. (CNN) - New York Gov. David Paterson defended himself Monday from rumors of womanizing and drug use, descr...
  • Nelson joins GOP in opposition to Obama nominee

    Sen. Ben Nelson will oppose President Obama's nominee for the National Labor Relations Board (CNN) - Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson joined Republican lawmakers in opposing President Obama's contro...
  • Bipartisan meeting at the White House

    President Barack Obama holds a bipartisan meeting at the White House Tuesday morning. Jobs, the economy, and health care are expected to be on the agenda. Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama...
  • Jenny Sanford calls memoir 'cathartic'

    New York (CNN) - South Carolina's first lady, Jenny Sanford, said Monday that writing her much-anticipated memoir of her husband's affair was a "cathartic" and "cleansing" experience. In an interview...
  • White House Watched

    Today's column is my last for The Washington Post. And the first thing I want to say is thank you. Thank you to all you readers, e-mailers, commenters, questioners, Facebook friends and Twitterers for...
  • Still Fighting

    It says a lot about this presidency that there is so much else going on that the public has almost forgotten that our troops are still fighting two wars. And yet, there is big trouble on both fronts.
  • Quick Takes

    Colum Lynch writes in The Washington Post: "The United Nations' top human rights advocate, Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates or try...
  • Late Night Humor

    Jon Stewart shows a clip of Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer criticizing Obama for his restrained response to the Iranian crackdown. Stewart's response: "You can't believe Obama puts our natio...
  • TX Gov Poll: Perry +11

    Texas Gov. Rick Perry leads Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison by 11 points for the Republican nomination as he seeks re-election, according to a new PPP poll. And Debra Medina is surging in third place, trail...
  • Those Were The Days

    Legislative leaders from both parties are meeting with President Obama now to discuss the economy, the first of the monthly bicameral, bipartisan meetings promised in the State of the Union address. M...
  • NH Poll: Dems Face A Thumpin'

    New Hampshire Democrats have been on a roll for years, particularly at the federal level in winning both House seats in 2006, a Senate race in 2008, and going blue for Democrats in the presidential el...
  • Paul Ryan Won't Run For Prez In 2012

    Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan (R) said over the weekend that he will not run for president in 2012. However, while Ryan has ruled out a national bid, he is still considering running for statewide office i...
  • OH Gov Poll: Kasich Maintains Lead

    The Ohio governor race really kicked off in the past month, as both John Kasich (R) and incumbent Ted Strickland (D) announced their running mates. Strickland also delivered his state-of-the-state add...

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