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Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief | Nov 6th, 2009
Have most of the “old” media and the new media (including some here at The Moderate Voice) gotten it wrong? Did Tuesday’s elections, in fact. show that the GOP is now on a more moderate path than many would believe if they listen to Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, or watch cable political shows or read many conservative blogs on the Internet?
Time Magazine’s Ramesh Ponnuru makes a good case...
Posted by CAGLE CARTOONS | Nov 5th, 2009
John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune
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Posted by KATHY KATTENBURG | Nov 5th, 2009
“An Uncommon Love,” sung by Carole King and K.D. Lang
Posted by WILLIAM KERN | Nov 5th, 2009
Pro-regime demonstrators lampoon President Obama at the site of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran on the 30th anniversary of the storming of the facility.
Continuing with our coverage of the 30th anniversary of the storming of the American Embassy in Tehran, this editorial from the state-run Web site of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting responds to the question of why it occurred. Laying out it’s position...
Posted by HOLLY IN CINCINNATI, Copy Editor | Nov 5th, 2009
There have been multiple shooting attacks at Fort Hood according to MSNBC, KCEN-TV and KTVT-TV. At least 7 people are dead and 30+ are wounded. One shooter is in custody and 1-2 more are being sought. FBI is on the way. Both the shooters and victims are believed to be military rather than civilians, at least the shooters were wearing military fatigues.
4:30 pm EST: More shots just reported according to MSNBC-TV.
4:40...
Posted by PETE ABEL, Managing Editor | Nov 5th, 2009
Eric Zimmermann reports that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is distancing himself from the Feds’ stimulus plan:
“I didn’t endorse it.”
Um … I think you did.
Posted by PETE ABEL, Managing Editor | Nov 5th, 2009
Earlier, Joe linked to RNC Chair Michael Steele’s ominous warning to GOP Members of Congress who might be thinking about “going rogue” against the party line.
Meanwhile, in Palm Beach, Fla., the County Democratic Party organization has practiced its own brand of purging someone who bucks the preferred party line.
Granted, the latter case hardly compares to the former, although it starts to...
Posted by ROBERT STEIN | Nov 5th, 2009
In the annals of sexual politics and odd couples, none could ever match the possibilities of mating Maureen Dowd and Rush Limbaugh, a power pairing that would have made Mary Matalin and James Carville look like America’s Sweethearts.
The image comes to mind from Dowd’s column yesterday, recounting a four-hour dinner at Manhattan’s 21 Club back when she was “a reportette” and El...
Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief | Nov 5th, 2009
This says it all, doesn’t it?
Posted by MICHAEL STICKINGS, Assistant Editor | Nov 5th, 2009
Washington voted for domestic partnerships, but Maine, a similarly blue state (despite having two Republican senators), voted against same-sex marriage.
There is no denying that the vote in Maine is a setback for gay rights. Simply put, the anti-gay forces of the right mobilize well, as they showed in California last year, playing to lingering bigotry and fear, and they did again here. Furthermore, there was...
Posted by Guest Voice | Nov 5th, 2009
“V” for Vilification: Liberal Paradise, Obama Nightmare
by
Rick Moran
Want to piss off the left? Everybody watch every single episode of the new ABC mini-series “V.” Drive the ratings through the roof. Make the show the hottest cultural happening since Seinfeld. Copy the hairstyles. Ape the fashion. Start bidding up the action dolls on Ebay.
And most especially, actually...
Posted by PETE ABEL, Managing Editor | Nov 5th, 2009
“When our party is united, whether you run in a Northern state or a Southern state, our party can win,” said the House Republican whip, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia. “But when you are divided, you can lose a seat that has been in the Republican column for quite a long time.”
The Virginia GOP, at least, seems to have gotten the message.
Posted by JAZZ SHAW, Assistant Editor | Nov 5th, 2009
For those around the country who somehow thought that they understood the politics of New York’s 23 district (or, “The North Country” as we call it) and feel they had a grasp on how “awful” a choice Dede Scozzafava was, they should read this editorial from the local paper. Here’s one of the key portions, explaining just how she wound up as the nominee from what I fully admit...
Posted by MARC PASCAL | Nov 5th, 2009
I didn’t vote on Tuesday in Phoenix, Arizona, my residence for almost the past 4 years though I voted in the National Elections last year. I was pleased to see that the local school funding and bond issues all passed with comfortable margins across the metro area. Had I voted, my other choice would have been for a city council position wherein I did not know either candidate.
ARIZONA
Heavily Democratic...
Posted by PATRICK EDABURN | Nov 5th, 2009
I had planned to publish a more detailed review of the elections but I ended up spending two hours in the dental chair today getting a filling replaced. I’ve got one more filling to go plus a deep cleaning so I was pretty distracted today getting ahead on work.
As a result I’ll post my more technical analysis this weekend, for those who are geeky enough to enjoy. However in the meantime I thought...
Posted by WILLIAM KERN | Nov 4th, 2009
Two of the 53 American Embassy workers being held hostage with the approval of the Iranian regime, after the facility was stormed on November 4, 1979.
Thirty years ago today, the American Embassy in Tehran was stormed by followers of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. It is a day that the current regime commemorates every year as a celebration of victory over what the leaders of the country like to call...
Posted by JERRY REMMERS, Columnist | Nov 4th, 2009
While Americans tuned into the political gyrations of a handful of elections yesterday and political operatives pontificating what it all means today, it remains dwarfed by what happened in Afghanistan.
Five British soldiers embedded with locals were shot and killed by an Afghan policeman with whom they were mentoring at a security outpost in Helmand Province. The embedded NATO troops were carrying out a key...
Posted by KATHY KATTENBURG | Nov 4th, 2009
Yesterday, I received a note (on my Facebook page) from Vanessa Grigoriadis, author of the Nancy Pelosi profile in New York Magazine that I critiqued here. The note says:
Posted by E.J. DIONNE, JR., WASHINGTON POST COLUMNIST | Nov 4th, 2009
EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Tuesday’s elections were a rebuke to the right wing and a warning to Democrats.
They were also a timely reminder that President Obama needs to tune up his celebrated political organization and find a way to make Americans feel hopeful again.
The night’s biggest loser was the national conservative political machine — the wealthy tax-cutters at the Club...
Posted by MICHAEL STICKINGS, Assistant Editor | Nov 4th, 2009
President Obama may think he’s getting a bill to sign soon, or at least this year, but it looks like Congress will postpone legislation until the new year:
Senior Congressional Democrats told ABC News [yesterday] it is highly unlikely that a health care reform bill will be completed this year, just a week after President Barack Obama declared he was “absolutely confident” he’ll be able...
Posted by JAZZ SHAW, Assistant Editor | Nov 4th, 2009
First, I’ll send you over to a longer column of mine which was just published over at PJM with some reflections on what we can take, if anything, from yesterday’s elections. In addition, though, I find myself pondering the alleged civil war in the GOP. The NY 23 special election was, after all is said and done, an aberration and a train wreck in the making pretty much from the beginning, and one...
Posted by CAGLE CARTOONS | Nov 4th, 2009
Eric Allie, Caglecartoons.com
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Posted by JOE WINDISH, Technology Editor | Nov 4th, 2009
At the very same time Maine voted to repeal same sex marriage, they approved a bill that expands the state’s existing medical marijuana law. With that Maine becomes the third State to License Medical Marijuana Providers:
“This is a dramatic step forward, the first time that any state’s voters have authorized the state government to license medical marijuana dispensaries,” said Rob Kampia, executive...
Posted by CAGLE CARTOONS | Nov 4th, 2009
David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star
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Posted by ROBERT STEIN | Nov 4th, 2009
Sarah Palin has upended politics-as-usual again, this time electing a Democratic Congressman in an upstate New York district that has been Republican for over 100 years.
In drumming out of the party Dede Scozzafava, a member of the State Assembly with solid GOP credentials in favor of an inexperienced Conservative with a scared-rabbit persona, Palin has once again demonstrated that her gifts are better suited...