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July, 2009 Entries • "3 million New Yorkers did not have a need to know."
• Democrats for Chris Christie
• Yes, This Metaphor Will Dispel the Accusations of Wasteful Pork Spending
• The Stimulus: Not Even That Great for Construction Companies
• Put Not Your Faith in Government Cost Projections
• Biden: I Never Said Precisely What I Said in March
• Our GDP Will Grow Again, Someday
• Flow Writer
• Finally Commemorating a Figure Who Didn't Use Steroids
• With Biden in the Clavin Role
• Fifteen Points Down, Jon Corzine Brings Out the Desperate Moves
• Looks Like Americans Lost Patience With the Stimulus Last Month
• Baucus Compromise Deathwatch Begins
• The Recruitments That Don't Happen
• Can House Progressives Vote for a Compromise That 'Cripples the Public Option'?
• Months After Increasing Taxes, Obama Claims He Hasn't Raised Taxes
• Judging Deeds by More Than Motives
• Reading Polls Is a Lot More Fun This Year Than 2008
• Waxman Gets Blue Dogs on Board, Then Progressives Jump Off
• McDonnell 55, Deeds 40
• A Summary of 'The Deal' Between Waxman and Blue Dogs
• An Overwhelming 12 Percent of Americans Glad Health Care Is at Top of Agenda
• Will the House Energy and Commerce Committee Mark Up Health Care This Afternoon? (UPDATED)
• Now Even Obama Is Suggesting Newsweek Is Implausible
• It's Bad Enough that Harry and Louise Sold Them a Poorly Lit House
• Waxman and Blue Dogs Reach a Deal? Progress?
• Someone's Polling on Replacing Jon Corzine With Cory Booker
• Thirteen to Watch, and Perhaps Support
• Is the History of the 'Torricelli Gambit' Hurting Corzine?
• Chris Dodd: We Didn't Shop Around for Our Loan. Er, Wait, I Mean, We Did.
• House Schedule Remains Clear as Mud
• In Virginia, Pitting Disputable Ideas Against No Ideas
• Watching MSNBC, So You Don't Have to
• AFSCME Decides That Unlike Baseball, There Is Crying in Health-Care Reform
• MSNBC Anchors Go to War With Each Other Over Soda Taxes
• Obama Assures Caller Congress Will Speed Up and Slow Down Simultaneously
• Obama Visit, Attack Ads Doing Nothing for Corzine So Far
• A Nagging Doubt We'll All End Up With Pontiac Aztek Plans
• Those Are Some Weak Numbers, Ma'am
• The Plan Feels Soft to the Touch, Is Mushy Inside, and Smells Funny
• Stimulus Creates Thousands of Jobs Lasting 35 Hours . . . Hooray!
• The Loose Definition of 'Centrist Democrat'
• When 'Now' Means Six Weeks From Now or Later
• The 0.836 Percent Solution
• A Crisis of Faith Regarding Congressional Reading Abilities
• When It Comes to Health-Care Communications, There's Strength in Numbers
• Is the Public Option Kaput?
• Democratic Pollster Greenberg: Support for Reform Was Stronger in 1993
• A Formula for Trouble
• The Wrong Guy in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
• 'We'd do well to first obtain more patience, rather than more patients.'
• Obama's Personal Doctor Laments Health Plan Has 'No Real Cost Controls'
• Wait, Did I Miss the Republicans Re-taking Congress? And Bill Kristol Is Now Speaker?
• It's a Few Simple Changes, Just Takes Five Hours or So to Explain . . .
• 'The fate of ObamaCare rests in the hands of Senate Republicans.'
• Boehner: CBO Confirms Dems' Health-Care Plan Is a Raw Deal
• Some Political Highlights Outside of Health Care . . .
• Chris Christie on Today's Corruption Revelations
• DNC Says 'Inaction Is Not an Option' as Reid, Pelosi Announce Inaction
• Total of 44 Arrested in FBI Probe - Your Usual Bribery, Corruption, and Human Organ Trafficking
• New Jersey Corruption Sting Nabs . . . 30, and Counting (UPDATED)
• Is Yelling at a Cop Automatically a Crime?
• The New Jersey Corruption Raids Hit the Governor's Race
• Please Ignore the Past Six Months of References to 'Health Care Reform'
• Is the Most Justifiable Criticism of Obama That He 'Still Seems Too Good to Be True'?
• Well, Words Used to Mean Things
• Dodd's 'Look Busy' Strategy of Recent Months Has Done Him Jack Squat
• Newsweek's Fineman: Obama was "tired, same old talking points, missed an opportunity here."
• A Good, and Bad, Answer on the Gates Arrest
• Doctors Remove Children's Tonsils For Profit, When They Really Have Allergies?
• Get Off My Back, I Kept a Little Bit of My Promise
• What You're Missing From My Twitter Feed
• Surprise, Obama Claims Republicans Have No Real Alternatives
• Obama Explains Why He Is Rushed
• Specifics Seem a Little Overdue At This Point
• How Many Jobs Have We Created? Oh, Who Can Count?
• Who's the Duke of Wellington in This Scenario?
• What? No Ad Buy on MSNBC? But That Network's Audience Would Be So Receptive!
• Oooh, Don't Forget, 'Now Is The Time To Act'!
• Come On, This One Reached Its Expiration Date When He Finished the Sentence.
• Once an Alleged Stimulus Success Story, Caterpillar Announces 'Rolling Shutdowns' of Factories
• If a Deal Hatches, It Won't Include Orrin
• The Shovel-Ready Pledge Reaches Its Expiration Date
• No Argument There, Mr. President
• Doubts on ObamaCare Go Well Beyond Those 52 Blue Dogs
• So President Obama and Senator DeMint Finally Agree on Something
• No 'Senator Tausch,' at Least for Now
• Is the Public Plan Effectively Dead?
• Look, Even Mark Sanford Spent More Time in His Home State in June
• 'My Name Is Pat, Remember It Well, for It Is the Chilling Sound of Your Toom.'
• 'Elect Me First, Then I'll Tell You My Plans' Is Not a Reassuring Slogan
• Gallup: Obama's Approval at 47 Percent on Economy, 44 Percent on Health Care
• At This Rate, Mike Bloomberg Will Tell Him to Spend Less
• Just Be Glad He Didn't Make Mail-Order Bride Jokes
• Hey, How Did We Fall Behind France, Brazil, Iceland, Egypt and Peru?
• Chris Christie Clinging to 53-38 Lead Over Jon Corzine
• She Needed a Proofreader
• You're Gonna Need a Better Lie Than This One, Pal
• Only Ten More Months Until Primary Day in Ohio
• Meeting Obama's Deadline on Guantanamo Bay May Now Require Invention of Time Machine
• Probably Not the Day to Tout People's Trust in Obama
• Tim Kaine's Top Donors Pretty 'Meh' on Creigh Deeds
• Jim DeMint Is Not the Primary Obstacle to Obama's Health Care Plans
• Looking Over at Pennsylvania . . .
• Who Is "Governor X"?
• The Guantanamo Bay Promise Hasn't Hit an Expiration Date, Quite Yet . . .
• Harry and Louise, the Least Successful Comeback Since Mike Tyson
• First Black Female Billionaire Backs Bob McDonnell
• Sebelius: The Health Care Bill Will Be More Cost-Effective Once We Betray the AMA
• Look, the Size of the Deficit Is on a Need-to-Know Basis, and You Don't Need to Know!
• Sooner or Later, Someone Will Replace John McHugh in Congress
• In a New York or New Jersey/Virginia Minute, Everything Can Change
• Chris Christie Picks a Running Mate With No Reality Television Experience
• The Washington Post Ruins the White House's Monday
• Need to Outshine Those Other Guest Hosts Who Filled in This Week
• They Shoot, They Score
• Reality, Unemployment Rate Continue to Mess With Joe Biden
• You Could Say That 'In Generak' I Don't Trust Legislators' Attention to Detail
• Every Argument Has the Clarity of Crystal and the Brevity of a Tweet
• Senate Confirmation Now Requires a John Roberts Impression
• Flailing Corzine Tries Tying Rival to Mark Sanford
• NRA Makes It Official: They Oppose Sotomayor
• Latest New Jersey Poll Shows . . . Pretty Much More of the Same
• Coburn and Sotomayor on Guns and Abortion, Round Two
• Sotomayor Could Be Approved by Committee as Early as Tuesday
• Cornyn: 'You seem to be a different person, almost, in the speeches you have made.'
• Lindsey Graham to Sotomayor: 'I think your future is pretty bright.'
• Feinstein: 'How do you look at your appointment as effecting empowerment for women?'
• Sotomayor: 'I don't know how you define typical.'
• You Just Have to Ignore Everything She's Said Before Monday
• Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Little Tougher the Second Time Around
• Cornyn: Will We Get Sotomayor the Speech-Giver or Sotomayor the Judge?
• Al Franken, Determined to Get to the Bottom of the Perry Mason Controversy
• Changes From the Previous Decision Matter, Except When They Don't
• Al Franken Remembers His Roots
• Perhaps Judge Douglas Ginsburg Could Help With That, Ma'am
• Without a Precedent, Sotomayor Has a Hard Time Expressing an Opinion
• Why Use a Mexican Icon for a Judge With Puerto Rican Heritage?
• Coburn Turns the Sotomayor Hearings to Abortion
• Sotomayor Wouldn't Call Herself a 'Legal Realist', Even Though She Praised the Concept
• Misremembering Alito's Story
• Sotomayor Says She Doesn't Know Why Employer Said She Was 'Reliably Liberal'
• Sotomayor: 'It is clear from the attention that my words have gotten . . . that my words failed. They didn't work.'
• AP: It's Obama's Economy Now
• Artificial Drama
• Where Have I Heard This 'Strong Closer' Talk Before?
• I Kinda Liked the Red Sonia We Saw Yesterday
• 'The positions this fund took, like the speeches, tell us some things, Judge.'
• Lindsey Graham: Do You Realize If I Said That, They Would Have My Head?
• AP: Leahy Isn't Quoting Sotomayor's Controversial Remarks Accurately
• Like the Man Who Nominated Her, Sotomayor Hates Hypotheticals
• Will Other Polls Follow Rasmussen on Sotomayor?
• No, Really, We Have Heard This Argument Before; About Ten Seconds Ago, Senator
• How Long Until 'This Is Not the Sonia Sotomayor I Knew'?
• What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate, Apparently
• Sessions to Sotomayor: What Do You Really Believe?
• Now She Says There's No Guarantee that Latinas Are Wise After All
• Sotomayor Addresses Supremes' New Haven Firefighter Decision for the First Time
• Sonia Sotomayor vs. The Tarzan Burglar
• Corzine, Down 12, Learning Attack Ads Are a Depreciating Asset in a Slumping Economy
• When Deference Becomes Unilateral Disarmament
• At This Rate, Alito Will Feel Ignored
• She Restrained Herself From Using the Term 'Restraint'
• We've All Wanted to Shout During a Durbin Speech, But Come on
• Whitehouse: We Want Discomforting, Upending, Afflicting Justices
• The Campaign Talked Him Down From Two Appearances
• How Lindsey Graham May Not Be Needed by Sonia Sotomayor (UPDATED)
• Apparently Miguel Estrada's Life Story Wasn't Compelling Enough
• Come on, Guys, Save the Shouting for Cable News Shows
• 'Judicial Activist' Is Going to Become the New 'Neocon'
• The Unwritten Script for Opening Statements . . .
• Is There a Gene for Good Judgment?
• I Thought Her Legal Vision Was the Issue Before Us
• The Scene Outside the Sotomayor Hearings . . .
• Although in This Context, Forty-Two Would Be Good, Too
• Kirk Abandons Enterprise of 2010 U.S. Senate Bid (UPDATE: Maybe Not.)
• It Would Have Been Nice to Hear This Before We Spent $787 Billion
• The House of Representatives Isn't Always the Road to Fame
• While Obama's Away, Health Care Bill Becomes 'Delayed Indefinitely'
• Hanging a Lantern on Your Problem
• Sen. Burris, We Hardly Knew Ye, and Yet It Was Still Too Much
• Sestak Makes It Official; Arlen Specter's Getting a Primary Challenge
• Another Ohio Poll, Another Signal of Competitive Statewide Races Next Year
• It's Hard to Find Trig Palin Mockery If You Refuse to Look for It
• Good News for Corzine, His Unfavorables Are Down to 46 Percent
• Biden Brings Message of 'Patience' to Beleaguered Buckeyes
• Economic Reality, Dayton Police Department Mess With Joe Biden
• Some Conservatives Won't Respond If Kirk Says 'Energize' or 'Engage'
• The NRCC Gets Their Man . . . and Their Woman . . . and Their Man . . . and Their Woman . . .
• Write Your Own Punchline to Warren Buffett's Stimulus Metaphor
• Only 53 Percent Say Obama Has a 'Clear Plan' for Nation's Problems
• Murtha on the Stimulus: 'We Haven't Seen Any Results."
• It's Not Just Quinnipiac in Ohio . . .
• Virginia Governor Tim Kaine's Senior-itis
• Meanwhile, Up in the Bay State . . .
• Administration Using the Same Stimulus Job-Creation Number Obama Did on May 1
• This Kirk Doesn't Believe in the No-Win Scenario, Either
• Identity Crisis
• Lisa Madigan, Not Interested in Running for Higher Office in 2010
• Maybe He Has a Split Personality
• Rahm Emanuel, Obama Foe
• Somewhere, Yogi Berra Is Jealous
• Tough to Put Your Best Foot Forward When It's In Your Mouth
• Maybe I'm Not the Washington Post's Target Demographic Anymore
• Hey, Even if There's No Actual Palin Scandal, We Can Still Say There Is
• 'There was nothing strange about your daddy.'
• Some Poll Movement in Virginia's Governor's Race
• New Hampshire Gets a GOP Senate Candidate, AG Kelly Ayotte
• 'The stimulus is a joke. We are tossing money into a giant pit.'
• It's Probably Part of Some Spin-Doctor Stimulus Plan
• RGA Outraises DGA by Small Margin
• Obama's Approval Rating in Ohio Down to 49 Percent; 44 Percent Disapprove
• Someone Should Introduce Barack Obama and Laura Tyson to Each Other
• Wind Turbines Replacing Smokestacks on the New Jersey Turnpike?
• High Praise From All the Wrong Places
• Could Governor Palin Share Her Decision Calculus With Him?
• Just Remember What Happened the Last Time Medvedev Had a Pleasant Meeting With a U.S. President
• On the List of Bush Grievances, Will This Be Number 99?
• Meanwhile, in New Hampshire . . .
• The Cap and Trade Vote Triggers a House Campaign
• California's Upcoming 'Blanket Primary' Does Not Refer to Michael Jackson's Child (UPDATED)
• Rep. Peter King Campaigns for President of Those Tired of Michael Jackson Coverage
• Blodget on Obama: 'By promising a relatively swift recovery, he has set himself up for failure.'
• 'Mr. Deeds's education stance is less defined.'
• Meanwhile, in New Jersey, 'He has no real middle-class accomplishments, according to voters.'
• Yup, Ohio Should Be Competitive Next Year
• Biden: We Didn't Realize the Profound Economic Emergency Was a Profound Economic Emergency
• Karzai Could Still Hire Begala, for Whatever That's Worth
• Perhaps Nobody Quotes O.P. Smith By Accident, Either
• Sniffing Around for a Palin Presidential Bid
• "Steve Schmidt wins."
• The Weak Spot In Every Political Figure
• Any Chance of 2012 or 2016 Bids Are Gone. But No One Quotes Douglas MacArthur By Accident.
• Sarah Palin Explains Her Decision to Resign
• WOW: Palin Resigning In a Few Weeks
• Reports: Sarah Palin Will Not Seek Second Term as Alaska Governor
• President Obama May Be Getting One Right . . . for Now
• It Takes More Than Throwing Tea Into Boston Harbor
• Wow, the Market's Bad, and — Hey, New Michael Jackson Footage!
• Obama: Stop Blaming Me for the Economy, I Just Got Here in January
• Sanford Watch: State Law Enforcement Reports . . . 'No Improper Use of Funds.'
• Why They Hate Her, the Angelina Jolie of Politics
• Connecting the Dots on a Hillary-Obama Rift . . .
• The Red Dot Only Went Up a Little This Month
• Plus, She's Auctioning Off Some Stuff She Had in Her Attic
• The Average Worker's Work Week Has Never Been Shorter . . .
• Preaching to the Converted
• Feel That Stimulus!
• An Early Time for the Washington Times
• Not If, but When
• Get Out the Spelunking Gear
• When You've Lost Helen Thomas, You've Lost . . . Something
• Culture of Corruption, Part Thirty-One
• New York Democrats Will Get a Senate Primary
• Culture of Corruption, Part Thirty
• A Sentinel Watches Grayson, and Sees 'Category 5 Waste'
• Stimulus Continues to Work Invisible, Intangible, Unverifiable Wonders
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