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An 'authentic GOP': bamboozling swing voters, as always

"President Obama and the Democratic leadership in Washington have rebranded themselves as the party of economic irresponsibility." Thus wrote, in a ruthless affront to recent history, Republican strategist Alex Castellanos. It came in the third ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Bob McDonnell,  U.S. Congress

A short trip through the cyberland of right-wing dementia

How much do we really know about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the 39-year-old Army psychiatrist who went on a killing spree yesterday at Fort Hood, Texas? Not much. He was born and raised in Virginia, was medically trained by the Army, became disillusioned ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Rush Limbaugh,  Michelle Malkin,  Katie Couric,  Dick Cheney

The Obama Question: A failure of civic leadership?

On Monday, 24 hours before the Democratic Party's, shall we say, misfortunes in New Jersey and Virginia, there appeared in the Times a fateful piece, in which Jeff Zeleny wrote, "Interviews with voters across Iowa offer a window into how the ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Bill Clinton

Two-thirds of a vacuum filled?

White House senior adviser David Axelrod perhaps framed it best, and if not best, at least with admirable economy: "The real story here is, I think this thing is ambiguous." That of course is true, yet the pregnant downsides to last night's elections -- ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  White House,  U.S. Democratic Party,  David Axelrod

Mr. President, it's time to cut the crap

It just keeps getting worse. A climbing death toll. Firefights and terrorist bombings. Indigenous distrust. Limitless corruption. Hundreds of billions of dollars -- gone, nothing to show. Eight neglectful years, staggering to an ever-receding finish ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Hamid Karzai,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Al-Qaeda

NY-23, less 1, part 2

Dede Scozzafava's Saturday understatement of withdrawal -- "Polls have indicated that my chances of winning this election are not as strong as we would like them to be" -- was the most clarity we've heard from New York's 23rd Congressional District in ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Frank Rich,  National Republican Congressional Committee,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Dede Scozzafava

What a Hoffman victory could mean for liberals

In New York's Owens-Scozzafava-Hoffman race there had loomed two major narratives of keen-enough interest in the right's internal spats, but both are suddenly receding in the early shadows of, perhaps, a much broader electoral -- and unspeakable -- ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Sarah Palin,  U.S. Congress,  Dede Scozzafava,  Newt Gingrich

Modern America, in a polarized funk

According to at least two recent polls, the American public is in a funk -- or perhaps I should say, is still in a funk, or is back in a funk, or worse, is maybe showing signs of fixed and permanent funkdom. Although, says USA Today/Gallup, 6 in 10 ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  Gallup

Opting out of bait-and-switch ballyhoo

I've got to give Harry Reid credit. As political theatre he played this beautifully; as political comedy he delivered his double-take joke with a bamboozling flawlessness that inspires. And as political skulduggery? Let's just say that Shakespearean ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harry Reid,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  White House

Obama cannot answer a political question with a military response

If you want to know what "success" looks like in an American-tailored Middle East nation, look to Iraq. There, after years of grinding determination, a peppy escalation, 4,500 dead Americans and roughly one trillion dollars, they're blowing themselves ...

From PMCARPENTER, BuzzFlash,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Taliban,  The Pentagon,  Nouri al-Maliki,  NATO

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