Top Items:
![](/img/pml.png)
RNC member calls on Steele to quit — Michael Steele should resign as Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman, according to a committee member from North Carolina. — In an e-mail to fellow RNC members obtained by The Hill, Dr. Ada Fisher, North Carolina's national committeewoman …
RELATED:
![](/090305/i49.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Fears of a Clown — Once upon a time, you could drive to the most remote reaches of the United States and escape Rush Limbaugh. But from the Mogollon Mountains of New Mexico to the Badlands of South Dakota, where only the delicious twang of a country tune or the high-pitched pleadings …
![](/090305/i19.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
For GOP: all pain, no gain — Four months after John McCain's sweeping defeat, senior Republicans are coming to grips with the fact that the party is still - in stock market terms - looking for the bottom. — Republicans this week are processing two sobering new polls that found …
Discussion:
Ben Smith's Blogs, Washington Post, Political Machine, Booman Tribune and Capital Journal
![](/090305/i104.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
The Limbaugh schism — For conservatives, the news of the week was Rush Limbaugh's speech to the annual CPAC conference in Washington DC. The speech achieved all and more that Rush could have hoped: It was rapturously received by the more than 8,000 conference attendees and broadcast live on Fox News.
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice
![](/img/pml.png)
THE BANALITY OF PROGRESS. — The speech ended. “Let's get to work,” the President said. The attendees — a mixture of congressmen, advocates, stakeholders, and analysts — filed down the long hall to their breakout sessions. Another reporter turned to me. “What did you think of the speech?”
Discussion:
The Plum Line
RELATED:
![](/090305/i14.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Obama Taps Clinton Ideas but Not Clinton Herself
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times, Top of the Ticket, Associated Press, TaylorMarsh.com, CBS News, Roger Ailes and Wonkette
![](/img/pml.png)
Rep. Wamp: Healthcare Is A ‘Privilege,’ Not A ‘Right’ For All Americans
![](/img/pml.png)
Presidential Bait-and-Switch — What Obama once promised, and what he's delivering.
![](/img/pml.png)
IS HEALTH CARE A ‘PRIVILEGE’ FOR SOME?
Discussion:
PoliticalBase.com Blog
![](/img/pml.png)
My Response To The White House — When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money. — I fight to help viewers and readers make and preserve capital.
Discussion:
Wizbang, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Say Anything, PoliGazette, Clusterstock, YID With LID and Capital Commerce
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Democrats' Diversionary Tactics — In the first two months of 2009, the Democratic Congress and the White House have spent more money than the combined cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the response to Hurricane Katrina. After they doled out taxpayer dollars at such a blistering pace …
Discussion:
Associated Press, The Politico, Commentary, CQ Politics, No More Mister Nice Blog, TaylorMarsh.com, Gateway Pundit, The Atlantic Politics Channel, Washington Monthly, Burnt Orange Report, The Hill, The Washington Independent, The Note, The Caucus, Swampland, PoliticalBase.com Blog, Salon and DISSENTING JUSTICE
![](/img/pml.png)
Obama Hosts Bipartisan ‘Timeout’ Dinner at White House
Discussion:
White House Watch
![](/090305/i51.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
First Lady Michelle Obama shows even she has a gift for the gaffe — It was all going so well. The dresses, the brains, the Vogue cover shoot - everything so far about Michelle Obama has left us wide-mouthed in admiration. It seemed there was no end to her fabulousness. Then Mr and Mrs Brown came to stay.
RELATED:
![](/090305/i100.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Obama's safety net: the TelePrompter — President Barack Obama doesn't go anywhere without his TelePrompter. — The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president's prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks. — Resting on top of a tall, narrow pole, they flank his podium during speeches …
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Sex Appeal May Have Hurt Sarah Palin — In a Sept. 4, 2008 column, just after Sarah Palin accepted the Republican nomination for vice-president, Will Wilkinson wrote admiringly of her “sexual power,” adding: “I think she is a tremendously sexy woman. How this will affect the race, I have no idea, but it's just got to.”
Discussion:
Outside The Beltway, Top of the Ticket, Balloon Juice, Political Machine and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Schumer Privately Tells White House He's Concerned About Freeman On Israel — Senator Charles Schumer has privately expressed concerns directly to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel about Chas Freeman, the Obama administration's pick to head the group that prepares some of the intel community's …
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
An IG for Chas Freeman
Discussion:
Power Line, Washington Times, War in Context, The Washington Independent, Weekly Standard, Commentary and Hot Air
![](/090305/i102.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
GM is toast — After today's annual report, I don't think there's any question of GM's staying out of bankruptcy. The company's revenue fell from $180 billion in 2007 to $149 billion in 2008, with the worst crash in the fourth quarter. Car sales have continued to plunge into the new year.
![](/img/pml.png)
The Treasury Mortgage Mod Program: Should We Hope It Doesn't Work? — The Treasury today announced its so-called “Making Homes Affordable Program”. — I am clearly an old fart. The fact that the Treasury bothered to have a logo created for the program (do consumers and servicers …
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Unlucky or Unwise, Some Homeowners Left Out
Discussion:
Michelle Malkin, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Independent, JustOneMinute and Washington Post
![](/090305/i72.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
EXCLUSIVE: Rove Warns of ‘Show Trial,’ Says Dems ‘Would Love to Have Me Barbecued’ — Karl Rove tells FOX News he is looking forward to telling the House Judiciary Committee about his alleged role in the firing of federal prosecutors and the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.
Discussion:
CBS News, Washington Monthly, Glenn Thrush's Blogs, TIME.com, TPMMuckraker, Associated Press and Salon
![](/img/pml.png)
Jon Stewart's rant: Santelli re(un)wound — Apparently Rick Santelli - famous for “Santelli's rant” on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a broadcast diatribe against the Obama administration's bailout of bad mortgages - should have shown up on The Daily Show.
Discussion:
Newshoggers.com
![](/img/pml.png)
One France Is Enough — The French writer François Mauriac once said during the cold war that he loved Germany so much, he was glad there were two of them. After what an undivided Germany had done to France in World War II and before, that was understandable.
![](/img/pml.png)
Daley leaning toward Illinois Senate bid — Former Commerce Secretary William Daley is leaning toward running for the Senate seat President Obama once held, sources close to Daley tell The Hill. They characterize the decision as all but finalized. — Daley would likely be an instant front-runner …
Discussion:
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room