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Toomey's Two-Step

Congressional Quarterly's Shira Toeplitz has a good rundown on all the ways in which presumptive Pennsylvania GOP Senate nominee Pat Toomey has moved to the center ever since Arlen Specter bolted for the Democratic Party. Which makes me again wonder ...

From JASON ZENGERLE, The New Republic,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Pat Toomey,  Arlen Specter

Why Charlie Baker Is No Mitt Romney

Charlie Baker is a moderate Republican businessman who's running for Massachusetts Governor. In other words, he's got a lot in common with Mitt Romney--or at least the version of Mitt Romney who existed before he thought he needed to be a lot more ...

From JASON ZENGERLE, The New Republic,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mitt Romney,  U.S. Republican Party,  Deval Patrick,  Howell Raines,  George Wallace, Jr.

Who You Calling Illegitimate?

I was pretty shocked by this new poll that found that 52 percent of Republican voters think ACORN stole the 2008 presidential election for Obama. I wanted to get some perspective, though, so I looked for polls that assessed voters' feelings about the 20 ...

From JASON ZENGERLE, The New Republic,  20 Nov 2009

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

How Do You Say 'Reset' in Pashto?

The WaPo's Rajiv Chandrasekaran reports that the Obama administration has decided to try a little tenderness with Hamid Karzai: The new approach, which one official described as a "reset" of the relationship, will entail more engagement with members of ...

From JASON ZENGERLE, The New Republic,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hamid Karzai,  Central Intelligence Agency,  US State Department,  Richard Holbrooke

NYT Columnists -- They're Just Like Us!

My wife was recently given the strange gift of a two-year subscription to US Weekly. (The gift was made even stranger by the fact she has no idea who gave it to her.) Which means that not only do I now know who Josh Duhamel is, but I also know about ...

From JASON ZENGERLE, The New Republic,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U S Weekly,  Josh Duhamel,  Fergie,  New York Times Company,  Brad Pitt

Another Hasan Problem

Putting aside the whole was-he-a-terrorist debate, there's another troubling question about Nidal Hasan: namely, how did he manage to keep his job as an Army psychiatrist? This NPR report, about a memo written by a psychiatrist supervising Hasan's ...

From JASON ZENGERLE, The New Republic,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NPR

Under the Bus (cont'd)

Following up on Mike's post about the various people Obama has thrown under the bus, it does seem that there's an unusual amount of handwringing going on about Greg Craig, or at least about the manner in which he was thrown, through a series of ...

From JASON ZENGERLE, The New Republic,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Scooter Libby,  Karl Rove,  George W. Bush,  Central Intelligence Agency

Obama says Washington not trying to contain China

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama told Chinese students on Monday he did not fear their nation's rise, ahead of talks on trade imbalances and currency strains that underline the sometimes tense embrace between the two giants. Testy ...

From PATRICIA ZENGERLE AND JASON SUBLER, The Washington Post,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Paging Maureen Dowd

I’ve met Obama a couple of times. The first time, my wife and I went to a very modest luncheon, very early, when he was just starting to put himself out there as a candidate. We were waiting for him outside on the back patio of this lovely home, and he ...

From JASON ZENGERLE, The New Republic,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Maureen Dowd,  Barack Obama

Connecting the Dots

In the process of trying to figure out who leaked the Eikenberry memos and why (her sources' best guess: the White House political operation which is trying to push back against a pushy Pentagon), Laura Rozen makes a point that hadn't occurred to ...

From JASON ZENGERLE, The New Republic,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: The Pentagon,  White House,  Barack Obama,  Nidal Malik Hasan

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