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June, 2009 Entries


June 30

    • Sanford Resignation Watch Raising Level to 'High'
    • Chris Christie Enjoys 'Unusually Lopsided' Lead Among Independents
    • Aye Aye, Captain Gibbs
    • We Have a Winner in Minnesota, and It's Not Even July Yet
    • Democratic County Commissioner: Karl Rove Is Out to Get Me
    • Reading, and Mocking, the Palin Profile So You Don't Have To
    • The Once-Broken Congress Is Now Dominant, for Better or (Much) Worse . . .
    • Catfish Specter
    • Speed Kills . . . Chances to Get Legislation Right the First Time
    • Palin's One of Those Tired, Ambitious, Resentful, Enthusiastic Types
    • President Obama Opposes New Sanctions on Iran?

June 29

    • It's Easy To Cut the Budget When You Have No Other Option
    • U.S. Public: Iran's Crackdown Upsets Us, But We Shouldn't Do Anything About It
    • Michael Jackson and the Birth of Celebrity Culture
    • Thank God This Promise Came With an Expiration Date
    • Axelrod: Let's Revisit the Stimulus in the Fall
    • Before You Promise More Jobs, Try Keeping Your Earlier Promises
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Twenty-Nine
    • Tim Kaine: When I Said Anyone Could Ask, I Didn't Mean You
    • Can the Administration Please Get Its Stimulus Excuse Stories Straight?
    • David Axelrod Needs to Meet More Economists
    • Dick Cheney, Discussing Mark Sanford and John Ensign
    • Great Mayor, Less Than Ideal Marital Character Witness

June 26

    • Thinking of Tea a Week From Saturday
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Twenty-Eight
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Twenty-Seven
    • Profiles In Cowardice in the Cap & Tax Debate
    • Barack Obama's Big Fat $44 Million Lie

June 25

    • Sometimes This Stuff Just Happens
    • No Real Primary for Toomey; Specter's Numbers Sinking
    • Guess It Depends on How You Define 'On the Job'
    • Points for Consistency
    • Remember That Promise About Meeting With Five Leaders in the First Year?
    • 'The economy will be in a shambles this year, and probably well beyond.'
    • Not Another Missing Governor?
    • Stimulus Transportation Dollars Begin Messing With Joe Biden
    • Evaluating Sanford

June 24

    • Sanford’s Potential Successors May Want Him to Stay in Office
    • E-Mail Was Not Made For Romance
    • Terrible, Terrible, Terrible Timing
    • The Republican Governors Association Responds to Sanford
    • Sanford's Days Are Numbered
    • A Bad Habit, Explained
    • Is Today Iran's Tiananmen Square? (UPDATE: July 4 Invite Off?)
    • Tehran Witness to CNN: "THIS IS A MASSACRE"
    • What I Did on My Argentine Vacation
    • Kaine: Okay, So Virginians Have Paid for Some of My DNC Expenses
    • If You Kick Out Illegal Immigrants, 'Who in the World Is Going to Do the Work?'
    • He Is Small and Not So Dark
    • Nobody's Buying It, Mr. President
    • Obama Still Thinks Reducing the Tax Deduction for Charitable Contributions Is a Good Idea
    • Argentina, Appalachia, Tomato, To-mah-to
    • Lowering the Bar for Good News

June 23

    • Maybe Harry Reid Could Use a Sex Scandal
    • Psst! Chris Christie's Still Leading in New Jersey.
    • Sometimes the DSCC's Gain Is the DCCC's Loss
    • Obama: Can You Believe the Iranian Regime Is Mistranslating Me?
    • Opening the Door to a Shift on Iran?
    • 'There’s a lot of reason for Sanford to not want to let Bauer run things, even for a couple of days.'
    • Trying to Get Answers Through the Smoke and Haze
    • 'Privately, Obama advisers are crediting his Cairo speech for inspiring the protesters.'
    • Not Surprising, but Noteworthy
    • 'The President of Cool seems emotionally disconnected from events in Tehran.'

June 22

    • Americans Getting Tired of Waiting for the Stimulus to, You Know, Stimulate
    • Begala Touts the Fact That the Iranians Are Denouncing Great Britain
    • He Wants to Spend More Time With His Television Correspondent
    • A Moment I'm Glad I Voted for This Guy
    • Barack Obama's Trial-Lawyer Joke
    • Everybody's Working for Tim Kaine's Weekend
    • Chris Dodd: The Anti-Gay Marriage Stance I Took in My Presidential Bid Is Now a Liability in My Senate Reelection Bid
    • NJ: When We Said 'Details,' We Didn't Mean Actual Numbers
    • And We Figured Al Franken Would Be Most Likely to Sound Like Mike Myers
    • Bit by Bit, It Becomes Obama's Economy
    • Kasich Now Within Margin of Error With Ohio's Ted Strickland
    • The New York Times Discovers That Obama's Statements Come With Expiration Dates
    • 'It will be impossible anytime soon to resume diplomacy as if nothing had happened.'
    • Word Is Mike Castle's Running for the Senate

June 19

    • Culture of Unproven Corruption, Part One
    • He's Been Everywhere, Man
    • Susan Rice 'Furious' at Obama's Sudan Envoy for 'Remnants of Genocide' Comment
    • 'The World Is Watching . . .' But Not Acting.
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Twenty-Six
    • Iran Begins Dominating the Mindspace of the Political World
    • Remember This When You Hear the Parties Talking About Fixing the National Debt

June 18

    • Culture of Corruption, Part Twenty-Five
    • McDonnell's Favorables Are High, But Expect a Close Race
    • Are Ahmadinejad's Backers 'the sort of people who support Republicans here'?
    • $400 Million Falls Into Laps of Jon Corzine, NJ State Lawmakers
    • What's on That North Korean Ship?
    • If the Comparison Found Them Exactly the Same, We Wouldn't Need the Comparison
    • 56 Percent Say Government Doing Things Best Left to Business, Individuals
    • Tough to Be Reassured by Initial Unemployment Numbers
    • What More Can Obama Do? Well . . .
    • The Honeymoon Is Wrapping Up
    • A Four-Letter Word That Is Okay to Use on NRO
    • Why Would Denouncing Oppression Restore the Iranian Regime's Credibility With the People?

June 17

    • 'Among independents, [Obama's approval rating] dropped from nearly two-to-one approval to closely divided.'
    • Latest NBC Poll Shows Public Opposition to Obama on Gitmo, GM
    • 'At this point, it's tough to argue that the stimulus has indeed stimulated the economy.'
    • The Other Guys Have a New Boss
    • Isn't There Now a Key Policy Difference Between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi?
    • Put Not Your Faith in Big, Expensive, Complicated Legislation Passed in a Hurry
    • Newt Outraises Obama by $11 Million?
    • Visual Evidence the Obama Team Completely Misjudged the Stimulus Impact
    • Deeds: A Lifetime 'D-,' Rising to a 'C-' This Year, on Helping Virginia Businesses
    • Perhaps Most Surprising Is the Description of a New Jersey Audience as 'Polite'
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Twenty-Four

June 16

    • So Much for Those 'Swift and Bold' Preventative Measures
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Twenty-Three
    • 'The concerns that we have about Iran are no different than we had last Thursday or last Friday.'
    • Guess Who Said, 'Ahmadinejad has a pretty sweet hipster style'?
    • There Are Some Hands You Just Can't Shake
    • Nobody Wants to Be an Incumbent These Days
    • GOP Hoping Giuda and Guinta Mean Veni, Vidi, Vici
    • CIA Spokesman: Forget What Panetta Said About Cheney
    • That Other Republican Rising Star Named Sarah Makes a Decision
    • Maybe Everything You Know About Iran Is Right After All
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Twenty-Two
    • On, And Off, The Enemies List

June 15

    • A Dispute With Obama Worth Keeping an Eye On
    • 'The joke, really, in and of itself, can't be defended.'
    • Toomey's Raised a Million. $5,000 of That From John Cornyn.
    • 59 Percent of Obama Voters Think President 'Not Tough Enough' on North Korea
    • If U.S. Words of Support for the Iranian People Come Next Week, They'll Be Too Late.
    • I'm Open to All Ideas That I Already Agree With
    • When 'Compromise' Means 'Make the Issue Go Away'
    • It's Like a Trailer for a Movie Called 'The Alaska Fund Trust'
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Twenty-One: 'The Democratic Party Itself Was Used to Disguise a Kickback.'
    • Corzine Caves, and They Don't Mean Spelunking
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Twenty
    • One of Those Typical Panels With Contributors to National Review and Playboy

June 12

    • Culture of Corruption, Part Nineteen
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Eighteen
    • Governor Palin Not Certain to Run for Reelection in 2010?
    • Are Longer Voting Hours in Iran Good News or Bad?
    • On Fighting Stimulus Fraud, the Bar Keeps Getting Lower
    • Morals, Rules, and Politicians' Kids
    • You'll Be Able to Keep Your Health Care Plan . . . Until It Disappears
    • The 'Team of Rivals' Starts Acting Like . . . Well, Rivals
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Seventeen
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Sixteen

June 11

    • A Big Step for Palin's Pipeline Project
    • Wake Up, Congressman
    • Climate Change Legislation Will 'Save or Create or Destroy' Thousands of Jobs
    • Funny How Obama Keeps Creating Those 'Distinct Impressions' That Don't Pan Out
    • Deeds Jumps to Lead in First Virginia General-Election Poll
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Fifteen
    • What Are the Odds of the Media Botching a Sarah Palin Quote?
    • Perhaps They'll Be Too Distracted To Be Enraged
    • "Florio-esque" Is Not a Compliment in New Jersey
    • Feel That Stimulus!

June 10

    • Conan, Picking on Wisconsin for No Good Reason
    • He's Covered, Except for the Top Two Issues on Voters' Minds
    • The New King of the Political Scene: The National Unemployment Figure
    • So What Was Brian Schweitzer Thinking?
    • Quashing a Widespread Stupid Meme
    • Because Virginia Needs a Governor Who Can Find the Bathroom
    • After Jon Corzine's Attack Ads, the Latest Polls Show That Chris Christie Is . . .
    • Words About Deeds . . . and McDonnell

June 09

    • 'It was a tough primary, and I have to say I'm really sorry to see it come to an end.'
    • Who Says the Rural Guy Can't Run in the Northern Virginia Suburbs?
    • RGA: Welcome to the General Election, Gas-Tax Hiker
    • It's Looking Like Deeds . . . (It's Official)
    • The Results Are In! (Deeds Leads Early)
    • Just Not a Nice Day For a Primary
    • The Kind of Day Where 5.58 Percent Counts as a Big Turnout
    • A Hometown So Small, Everyone Clings Bitterly All the Time
    • When It Rains, It Pours . . . No, Really
    • Selected Virginia Precincts Reporting Less Than 2 Percent Before 10 a.m. Today
    • When You've Lost 620 Eighth Avenue, You've Lost the War
    • Not a Sign of Confidence, Methinks
    • The Family Business
    • How Low Can Virginia's Turnout Go?
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Fourteen
    • If the 2010 Gubernatorial Election Were Held Today . . . Well, It Wouldn't Be the 2010 Election, Then.
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Thirteen
    • Which Candidate Does Virginia Rain Help?

June 08

    • Senate Democrats Overrule Obama on Terror-Policy Appointee
    • Two Lawmakers 'Save or Create' Two-Party Rule in New York State
    • 'It will take more than a recovery to get New Jersey back on track. It will take a new governor.'
    • Can Al Gore Please Get as Angry at North Korea as He Is at George W. Bush?
    • Deed-mentum!
    • Look, I Just 'Saved or Created' Another Blog Post
    • Thankfully, No Macarena
    • Finally, a Campaign That Reminds Us of McDonald's Shakes on St. Patrick's Day
    • Early Moves to Watch for in Next Year's House Races . . .
    • Why Not Promise a Hillion Jillion Kabillion New Jobs?
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Twelve
    • Break Out the Europe Album, Because Virginia's Primary Is in the Final Countdown

June 07

    • Globe Provides Massachusetts Republicans With a Slogan

June 05

    • The Unemployment Rate Messes With Joe Biden
    • Watching Big Green Dots Turn Into Big Red Ones
    • Doug Wilder, Voice of Democratic Confidence
    • Explaining Red and Blue in Recent Elections
    • In the Matter of Johnson v. Smith, the Court Renders a Verdict of 'Cuchi-Cuchi.'
    • The Debate About Iran Comes Down to One Big Question
    • Democrats: The Public Can't See Evidence That Undermines Our Positions!
    • House Republicans Concur Pelosi Should Hit the Campaign Trail
    • All the Corzine News That's Fit to Print
    • Green Shoots! Or, You Know, Dead Grass Painted Green.

June 04

    • Yet Another Poll Puts McDonnell Up 8 to 13 Percentage Points on Democrats
    • Head of the Democratic Governors Association Endorses McAuliffe
    • Rasmussen: Christie 51, Corzine 38
    • An Endorsement That Makes You Say, 'Huh"?
    • Will Tuesday's Democratic Primary Winner Break 40 Percent?
    • Even Anderson Cooper Conceded Tea-Bagging Jokes Are Stupid and Silly
    • The Applause, and Silence, for Obama's Statements Spoke Volumes
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Eleven
    • Zombified-Americans Traditionally Vote Democratic
    • Less an Expiration Date Than Ignoring the Consequences of Policy Changes
    • Terry McAuliffe Had Better Watch Those Fireworks Laws
    • Next Up, McAuliffe's Plan to Catch Bigfoot
    • Looking Back, Looking Ahead

June 03

    • Some Familiarity With the Region's History Might Help
    • If the Stimulus Can't Stop Construction Employment From Dropping, What Can It Do?
    • 23 Percent of New Jersey Democrats Said 'Anybody but Corzine' Yesterday
    • Reassurance, Thy Name Is Geithner
    • Corzine Trashed Florio's Record, Then Failed to Clear That Bar
    • 'We'll Make It Happen . . ." Or, You Know, Cancel It
    • How Does Jon Corzine Justify a Second Term? Demand a Do-Over?
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Ten
    • 71 Percent Disagree With Sotomayor's Decision in Firefighters' Case
    • Obama Fans, Don't Say I Never Write Anything Nice About Your Guy

June 02

    • Lonegan Concedes; AP Calls It For Christie
    • With More Than Half the Vote In, It's Christie
    • Jon Corzine Announces Candidacy Against George W. Bush
    • Leave Work Early If You Plan to Vote Tonight
    • Culture of Corruption, Part Nine
    • If Obama Smells Like Cigarettes in Cairo, It Doesn't Mean He Relapsed
    • It's Part of a Secret Plan to Get Iranians Worried About Yucca Mountain
    • Perhaps We Should Remind Our Friends in New Jersey That It's Primary Day
    • Mortgage Rates Can Change in a New York Minute, Mr. President.
    • A Beautiful Day For a Contested Gubernatorial Primary
    • So Maybe They're Only Off By 395,000 Or So
    • Ed Rendell's Parting Shot to Obama Supporters
    • Hey, There's An Actual Race in Virginia!
    • Running The Numbers on Chrysler's Aid...
    • Two Terms Is Enough For Tim
    • Can Anybody Save a Job For Less Than $450K Each?
    • Almost $50 Billion in Aid To Save 88,000 Jobs?
    • Yay! Another Special Congressional Election in New York!
    • Only 18 Percent Think Guantanamo Bay Has Made America Less Safe
    • Get to the Polls, New Jersey Republicans!
    • Durbin Saw Blagojevich's Deals as an 'Innocuous Compromise'

June 01

    • If Cash on Hand Equaled Votes, McDonnell Could Start Measuring Drapes
    • Democrats Betting Americans Loved The Stimulus
    • Palin: 'Violence is never an answer in advancing the pro-life message.'
    • Making the Kas-ich for a New Ohio Governor
    • Jon Corzine To Polling Places: Get Out of My Way
    • I Know You're Enthusiastic, But You Can't Start Now, Terry
    • Other Than The Numbers Being Wrong, the Stimulus Progress Reports Are Valuable
    • Obama: I'm Spending Taxpayer Dollars In Order to Protect the Taxpayer
    • Obama Prevents Car Companies From Becoming 'Wards of the State' By Providing Them Billions
    • Chris Dodd Hopes Voters Confuse Him With Barack Obama
    • Two Big Guys, Two Big Jobs
    • Is It the Wrong Season for Negative Ads? Or Is the Message Exhausted?
    • The Race to Be the Guy Who Beats, Er, Takes on Corzine

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