NO JOKE: Stephen Colbert To Testify Before Congress
The folks running the Obama political operation have always believed they could control the message and the resources of the party better than anyone else. Now embattled House and Senate candidates are paying the price.
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I will say now that I'm frustrated. We have seen very little in the way of senior officer or boardroom-level prosecutions of the people on Wall Street who brought this country to the brink of financial ruin. Why is that?
We taxpayers are paying some people (GM executives) to tell us how we should vote for another group of people (House and Senate candidates) who will decide how our taxes will be used in the future. What's wrong with this picture?
An invitation to participate in Barack Obama's Town Hall forum arrived in my inbox; I was to show up at 9 AM sharp. But afterward, I couldn't help but feel sad and a bit used. And I imagined Obama felt the same way.
People can be upstanding, decent, and just without religious faith. Denmark is not only one of the safest places on earth, but it is also one of the most moral and ethically conscious cultures in the modern world.
How can a politician be expected to go toe-to-toe with the likes of Ahmadinejad, Qaddafi, Kim Jong Ill and Putin when they're utterly terrified of facing David Gregory, Bob Schieffer and Wolf Blitzer?
Constantly condemning the school administrators and teachers who are struggling to cope with the complex challenges we face does little but cause the public to lose all hope that we can succeed.
Nationally, both Democrats and Republicans are underestimating Sarah Palin. The DSCC and others do this at their own peril. Alaska is a chance to drive a political stake through the heart of the Palin king-maker meme
Everyone wants cures for diseases and it is time to acknowledge that the tens of millions of living Americans suffering from chronic illness and disabling conditions are more important than cells in a petri dish.
Does the president deserve the level of anger elicited by liars and those who daily attempt to shape our world into one making them ever more wealthy and powerful at the expense of the vulnerable?
The bottom line is that survey and polling researchers need to stay focused on good measurement, lest the polling industry become as politicized as many in the public currently view the media.
The only thing the president seems to have any passion for these days is lashing out at liberal critics -- not creating jobs, or protecting Social Security, or delivering on any of his campaign promises.
Obama had absolutely nothing to do with the causes of the financial meltdown, but he wasted two precious years being misled by Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner as to how to respond to it.
The unemployed can dramatically change the trajectory of these midterm elections. And with your help, they will.
Sarah, who settles every score, is not a high road kind of girl. And she never takes prisoners. So my expectation is that Sarah does not just want Lisa Murkowski to lose in November, she wants her to be publicly humiliated.
A whopping 70% majority continue to favor allowing gay men and women to serve in the military, with majority support from every key demographic subgroup, including conservatives. So why did the administration punt on this issue?
Former United States president Bill Clinton now says President Barack Obama is "getting his groove back". The same would apply to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
A crackdown on the scoundrels behind Medicare and Medicaid fraud will help cover the costs of health reform, allowing us to keep the services so many American rely on and reduce the deficit.
