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Krugman: Obama's Biggest Mistake - Not Blaming Bush Enough for Recessi
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has a brilliant solution for Barack Obama to improve his sagging poll numbers: spend more time blaming George W. Bush for the recession."The Obama administration’s troubles are the result not of excessive ambition, but of policy and political misjudgments," Krugman wrote Monday. "The stimulus was too small; policy toward the banks wasn’t tough enough; and Mr…
Time’s Mark Halperin: Dem Loss in Mass. = Win For ObamaCare
In a bizarre twist of logic, on Monday’s Morning Joe program on MSNBC, Time magazine’s Mark Halperin argued that if Democrat Martha Coakley lost the race for the Massachusetts Senate, it would improve chances of health care reform passing: “I actually think they may get health care more easily than if they win.”While Halperin acknowledged that losing the Senate seat that once belonged to the late…
Matthews on Mass. Election: People Are Averse To Obama's Program
Barack Obama appears to no longer be giving Chris Matthews a tingle up his leg, for the MSNBC host thinks Tuesday's special election in Massachusetts might end up being a reflection of how people are very averse to the new President's program.With a visible frown on his face, Matthews told "Daily Rundown" co-host Chuck Todd Monday that recent polling data "has to do with reality of a terrible…
Brokaw Digs: Americans Helping Haiti, 'Rush Limbaugh Aside
NBC's Tom Brokaw, on Monday's Today show, joined in the chorus of those depicting Rush Limbaugh as some sort of insensitive lout who doesn't want Americans to donate to the Haitian earthquake victims. The former NBC Nightly News anchor, in response to a question from Today co-anchor Matt Lauer, praised America's generosity to the disaster, but then took a swipe at the conservative radio talk show…
NYT's Gail Collins Blames 'Bad Mood,' Florida Guppy Shortage for Coakl
It's like the butterfly effect, but with fish! A guppy shortage in Florida is having an effect on a special Senate race in Massachusetts, according to New York Times columnist Gail Collins, still determined to ignore the nationwide anti-Democratic surge. Back in November, Collins reacted with dismissive sarcasm to the Democrats losing governors' seats in Virginia and New Jersey:Although there is…
CBS’s Rodriguez: If Republican Wins in Mass., Can Dems Slow Swearing
While concluding a story on the Massachusetts Senate race on Monday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez acknowledged the possibility that Republican Scott Brown could win the long held Democratic seat but wondered: “It’ll be interesting to see if Brown, the Republican, wins, if the Democrats can defer his swearing in and get health care passed. We will watch that.” At the top of the show,…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: gamblers are predicting Scott Brown will beat Martha Coakley in Tuesday's special senatorial election:Thoughts?
Matthews Plays Religion Card: Reminds Voters Brown Protestant, Coakley
[H/t NewsBuster P.J. Gladnick.] How panicked is the MSM at the prospect of a Scott Brown victory tomorrow? So much so that Chris Matthews has stooped to seeking to use Scott Brown's Protestant religion against him in heavily Catholic Massachusetts . . . The Hardball host made his despicable pitch during a Morning Joe appearance today.
Halperin: Obama’s Done ‘Extraordinary Job’; Woodward: He’s No
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Mark Halperin of Time and formerly with ABC News, hailed President Barack Obama: “He's done, I think, an extraordinary job running the government...under difficult circumstances. He managed the economic crisis and kept the world from going into a depression...” The co-author of the new book, ‘Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a…
Scarborough Seriously Not Sure He's Still A Republican
Joe Scarborough has expressed serious doubts as to his Republican affiliation, and made clear that House GOP whip Eric Cantor "is not my friend." But caution to those who assume Joe has gone left: he has clarified to this NewsBuster that his critique of the GOP comes from the Ron Paul-esque right . . . Scarborough's stunning comments came on today's Morning Joe in response to Dem Bob Shrum's…
Commentary: Taxpayers Will Pay Twice if Obama Gets His Bank Tax
President Obama returned to populist rhetoric Jan. 14 when he announced a $90 billion tax on roughly 50 large banks, supposedly to recoup "every single dime" of the TARP dollars used to rescue the financial sector. Nevermind that a number of those banks including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley already repaid their TARP debts with interest and were forced to take the money in…