Karl Rove

Obama staff combines DC with Chicago

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama is forming a White House leadership team that combines experienced Washington insiders who can help build a bridge with Congress and trusted associates who share his Chicago roots.

The Center-Right Nation Exits Stage Left

Here's the main thought Republicans are consoling themselves with these days: Notwithstanding President-elect Barack Obama, a nearly filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the Senate and the largest Democratic majority in the...

Free trade: Democrats need to know when to walk away from a bad hand

As globalization became a major campaign theme in the last two elections, free-trade critics replaced free-trade proponents in 69 House and Senate races. These new populists comprise a powerful new voting bloc promising to...

Beg Your Pardongate

A CLINTONIAN TRANSITION President-elect Barack Obama has put in charge of Department of Justice transition a leading figure in the 2001 Clinton inauguration day pardon scandal, as well as a leading lawyer for NARAL and the...

Now it's Xena's (Lucy Lawless) turn to bash Sarah Palin ...

11/5/08 -- What a great day for America and the world! Congratulations to you all. Now I can become an American citizen, I guess. It was a momentous relief for me to hear a President mention “Global Warming” with the gravitas...

Rocky Barker: Kempthorne leaves a lesson for Obama on the West

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne's success in forging an agreement on the Klamath River last week tells a larger story about how both Republican and Democratic administrations make policy in western resource issues and about...

Rove meets the Sanitation Department

Two versions of an interview with Karl Rove. Read the original: Impolitical (pronounced "I'm political")is a Toronto-based website offering yes, one more view of U.S. & Canadian political goings on. The author has a legal...

GOP back to square one with Hispanics

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson speaks to Latino voters during an early-vote rally in Denver's Rude Park on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008. In January, 2001, two days before President-elect George W. Bush moved into the White House,...

Why the Skeletons Won’t Go Quietly Back into Karl’s Closet

Karl Rove & His Skeletons Maybe you’ve read about the pissy interview in the New York Times with Karl Rove. Rove revealed he had already officially sucked up to President-Elect Barack Obama by sending him a congratulatory note...

This is Unification from the Left?

Barack Obama primary message throughout the campaign was hope and change through unifying America. Unity is another Obama pathos-based message, and by no means does the message of unity create a great leaders. Great leaders...

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