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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Glenn Thrush and Scott Wong - Politico: Has Obama found his inner populist?

Politico: Has Obama found his inner populist?


October 5, 2011 04:32 AM EST

With an offhand attack on Bank of America’s plans to impose a $5 debit card fee, President Barack Obama may have stumbled into a ready-made populist issue for the 2012 campaign.

Obama’s aides insist that his sharp criticism of the bank during an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos this week wasn’t intended to kick off a campaign against banking industry bad guys. But it has already had a galvanizing effect on Democrats who see it as the perfect way to hop on the right side of the Wall Street vs. Main Street divide.

They see Obama’s rebuke — he angrily suggested BofA’s customers are being “mistreated” — as a golden political moment, the rarest of chances to scale down incomprehensible trillion-dollar debates into a kitchen-table argument favorable to their party.

And even if his staff said not to expect any more BofA-inspired broadsides, there was an immediate payoff: the fact that Republicans and GOP-allied business groups spent much of Tuesday defending a bailed-out financial behemoth instead of customers forced to cough up five bucks.

For a president whose relationship with the financial services industry has always been deeply ambivalent — lurching from cold to cozy and back again — it’s an opportunity to show a more combative side at a time when the faltering economy is even more of an issue.

It’s not bad base politics either. Obama’s team has been looking for ways to signal, if not overtly express, its support for a growing wave of anti-Wall Street protests that progressives hope will be the left’s answer to the tea party movement. And it’s just the latest illustration of the suddenly more aggressive style that many Democrats have long been urging him to adopt.

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Glenn Thrush and Scott Wong - Politico: Has Obama found his inner populist?
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Politico Owner To Start Local D.C. News Site; Hiring 50 Journalists

Politico’s Robert Allbritton is planning a Washington, D.C. local news website, according to a report today from The New Republic. Touted as a direct competitor for the Washington Post — whose political coverage was already slighted by the Politico’s rise to prominence — the new project will function as an online metro mix of aggregation and original reporting, helmed by former Washingtonpost.com editor Jim Brady…

Read the rest here: Politico Owner To Start Local D.C. News Site; Hiring 50 Journalists

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Condi's new gig: Golf reporter By Michael Calderone


Condi's new gig: Golf reporter By Michael Calderone

April 13, 2009

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/

Condoleezza Rice, an avid sports fan, has talked in the past about wanting to become NFL commissioner. So maybe it's not too surprising that following up her stint as secretary of state, Rice would take up sportswriting.

Rice's first offering, a report from the Masters tournament, is now up on The Daily Beast.

By Michael Calderone 08:19 PM Categories: Blogs

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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Extremist rhetoric wont rebuild GOP by Michael A. Cohen


Extremist rhetoric wont rebuild GOP by Michael A. Cohen

I must confess that I am not able to watch Glenn Beck’s show on the Fox channel. The show gives me a massive headache…

I tend to agree with Michael A. Cohen’s view: “…Beck’s paranoid style is seeping into the discourse of conservative politics, which should be of concern to Republicans…”

Extremist rhetoric won't rebuild GOP By: Michael A. Cohen April 7, 2009

Watching Fox News’ new sensation Glenn Beck is not for the faint of heart. It is a disquieting entree into the feverish mind of a conspiracy theorist…

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Yet for all of his conspiracy-addled and occasionally tear-filled declarations, Beck has become the new darling of the conservative right…

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“Populist agitators such as Beck are nothing new, particularly in times of economic instability — and they aren’t restricted to the right. During the Bush years, liberal anger over the administration’s policies bred bizarre conspiracy theories of its own, like accusations that the Sept. 11 attacks were an inside job.

“However, Beck’s paranoid style is seeping into the discourse of conservative politics, which should be of concern to Republicans….”

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“The Republicans find themselves caught between two countervailing forces: the need to craft a policy agenda that appeals to middle-class Americans and the need to maintain the support of an angry base of voters that is alienated from, and suspicious of, the new president.

“Beck … is taking the latter course — with a vengeance. While Democrats have sought to tie Republicans to Rush Limbaugh, his attacks are tame compared with those of Beck … His occasionally unhinged attacks of strung-together nonsequiturs about the evils of Big Government provide little in the way of constructive solutions to the country’s vast problems. But this is also true of what we are hearing from Republican leaders.

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“If anything, catering to the far right risks becoming a millstone — a cheap way to score political points without having to do the critical spade work necessary to rebuild the party.”

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Please read Mr. Cohen’s entire opinion piece here: Extremist rhetoric won't rebuild GOP By: Michael A. Cohen April 7, 2009

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