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Bachmann calls on 'freedom-loving Americans' to 'scare' Congress today in rally against health-care reform proposal

votes and it will kill the bill. I think it could be dead for 10 years. Why won't we? Why won't we go for broke?" In a conference call Wednesday night with bloggers and activists for the advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R- ...

From DANIEL LIBIT, TwinCities.com,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Michele Bachmann,  U.S. Republican Party,  Sean Hannity

Bachmann calls for 'scare' tactics

In a conference call Wednesday night with bloggers and activists for the advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) called on protesters to “scare” members of Congress into killing the proposed health care reform bill. If ...

From DANIEL LIBIT, The Politico,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Michele Bachmann,  U.S. Republican Party,  Sean Hannity

'House call' to diagnose health care

House Republicans and tea party protesters spent the summer and much of the fall in an awkward mating dance, with neither group too sure it wanted to embrace the other. But they consummated the relationship over the weekend in New York’s 23rd ...

From DANIEL LIBIT, The Politico,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  Michele Bachmann,  Sean Hannity

Fearlessly fighting on Fox

"“It sucks,” says Democratic direct-mail consultant Liz Chadderdon, a regular on the network. “It is very, very tough to be a Democrat on Fox.” When you prevaricate, you're called out by one who is familiar with the information. Democrats and liberal ...

From DANIEL LIBIT, The Politico,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush,  White House

CLICK: A campaign's emotional core

Tears play a starring role in HBO’s upcoming documentary about Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, “By the People”: Even the candidate himself is caught in a cry. But no one turns on the waterworks like Ronnie Cho, a virtually anonymous 27-year-old campaign ...

From DANIEL LIBIT, The Politico,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  HBO,  John Kerry

An inconvenient tea party

Yes Al Gore is inconveniently absent from reality. Do think Tea Party advocates agree with Fox News Anchors who say that because of George W. Bushs Tarp money Wall Streets starting to return? I hope he has it in video tape version for these folks I ...

From DANIEL LIBIT, The Politico,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Al Gore,  U.S. Republican Party,  Nancy Pelosi,  Joe Biden

Robert Wexler, peacemaker?

Wexler announced Wednesday that he would leave his congressional seat in January to become president of the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation. Photo: AP The man who lured the notoriously bombastic Democratic Rep. ...

From DANIEL LIBIT, The Politico,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Robert Wexler,  U.S. Congress,  George Mitchell,  Charlie Crist,  Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation

Think Progress makes its mark

Can a liberal blog launched in the midst of the Bush era – a blog that once obsessed over Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove and the outing of Valerie Plame – still make its mark in the age of Obama? In the case of Think Progress, the answer ...

From DANIEL LIBIT, The Politico,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  Dick Armey,  Valerie Plame,  George W. Bush

The pros and cons of hissy fits

Joe Wilson is hero for telling the Truth! POTUS did Lie! I knew someone would try to draw an equivalency--there isn't. Republicans are on record about a million times sceaming "death panels" that have been debunked time and again. On the other hand, ...

From DANIEL LIBIT, The Politico,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Joe Wilson (politician),  Barack Obama

Franks: I'm 'civil, calm, collected'

Trent Franks says that he is usually a “very civil, calm, collected kind of guy.” Indeed, the reputation of the Arizona Republican is that of a mild-mannered workhorse who eschews the spotlight. So Democrats and Republicans alike were taken aback to ...

From DANIEL LIBIT, The Politico,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Trent Franks,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

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