Mar 17 2010

The Masscare Massacre

On Sunday, White House political adviser David Axelrod appeared
on ABC’s “This Week” and tried to brush aside the message sent by
Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Mass.) improbable election. “Senator Brown
comes from a state that has a health care plan that’s similar to
the one we’re trying to enact [...]

Mar 10 2010

Health Care: The Pelosi Surprise

Wow, the message mavens have been working overtime in Democratic leadership this week.
Harry Reid gushed about how losing only 36,000 jobs was "really good," and a "big day" in America. While it was an improvement, it's hard to arge the right tone to take was, "really good."
Now, Nancy Pelosi is declaring, "We have to pass [...]

Jan 31 2010

Axelrod: "We Have Not Lost Anything" by Giving Abdulmutallab Miranda Rights

Top White House adviser David Axelrod believes the U.S. government properly handled the Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, despite the fact that Abdulmutallab stopped talking to interrogators after having had Miranda rights read to him.  In an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press, Axelrod was asked about the decision to read Abdulmutallab his rights [...]

Jan 25 2010

Axelrod’s ‘New’ Transparency

When it comes to misreading the message from Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts, presidential advisor David Axelrod takes the cake.
Axelrod discussing health care legislation on ABC’s This Week yesterday with ABC anchor Terry Moran: “People will never know what’s in that bill until we pass it”:
AXELROD: Terry, again, I think you’re misreading the Massachusetts poll. [...]

Jan 19 2010

David Axelrod: ‘Hey, Scott Brown’s a great guy’

Obama’s chief strategist and spin-meister is already in full spin mode and he’s sounding uncharacteristically kind about the Republican candidate.
Paul West writes at The Swamp:
The Obama strategist volunteered praise for the Massachusetts Senate campaign run by the Republican, Scott Brown, and seemed to find nothing good to point to in the Democratic effort. He said [...]

Jan 19 2010

Coakley’s Titanic Ride

When New York-23 House candidate Doug
Hoffman surged in the polls, to knock
pseudo Republican Dede Scozzafava
out of the race, the White House and the Democratic
National Committee asked AFL-CIO and SEIU officials to carpet
bomb the upstate New York district in get out the vote efforts [...]

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