The Plan of Attack
July 13, 2009 at 11:56 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: Confirmation Hearings, Jeff Sessions, Mitch McConnell, Patrick Leahy, Roll Call, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court
Sotomayor heads into Day 1 of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Here’s a break down of the Republican plan of attack and how the Dems plan to respond (via Roll Call)
Repubs: plan to parse her every word, paint her as an activist judge based on painstaking, detailed scrutiny of everything she’s ever written or said. The big three legal issues they’ll focus on are: gun rights, affirmative action and the death penalty. Repubs will criticize her for what they consider is an overly narrow interpretation of the Second Amendment and an overly broad view on civil rights.
Dems: plan to highlight her moderate approach to the law and emphasize her strong support from law enforcement organizations. They’ll employ a “rapid-response-style messaging strategy to counter any GOP criticism” But, of course it call comes down to the woman of the hour. It’s an absolute MUST that Sotomayor “avoid language that would incite her opposition.”
London News Update
July 9, 2009 at 6:32 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: Rupert Murdoch
It would be practically a crime not to post on what was a major story in London papers today:
Murdoch papers paid £1m to gag phone-hacking victims
read the story here
emailing on the Vanity Fair’s AIG FP story:
July 9, 2009 at 6:17 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: AIG, AIG FP, Joe Cassano, Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair
recent email I sent to a friend on vanity fair’s cassano/aigfp article.
i think youre dead on that it wasn’t so much a deliberate scheme as it was utter incompetence at the very top. cassano does seem like a total nutcase. lewis had mentioned that he drove a crappy car…and im wondering what, was it an audi instead of a bmw 5 series? what exactly is considered crappy in the affluent world of michael lewis? but yeah, rolling stone had mentioned he’s still getting 2 mill a year for his consultant work for aig. which i suggest be taking his advice and doing the EXACT opposite. hellooooooo??!
most ridiculous item of the day:
July 9, 2009 at 10:52 am | In Barack Obama | Leave a CommentTags: Daily Mail, G8, Malia Obama, peacenik
The Daily Mail insinuating that Obama is using his daughter Malia to send a message to G8 leaders when she was spotted wearing “not one, but two T-shirts with an anti-nuclear message.”
The comments were (surprisingly?) not from local Daily Mail readers, but Americans unhappy with Obama and eager to lecture young Malia on what not to wear:
Great, now he is using his children as political statements yet. Can you take him and we will elect another president?
- zelunacafe, Chicago, USA, 08/7/2009 23:38
That Logo belongs to the Hippies, it’s called the broken peace sign, the cross upside down. Miss Obama should not have worn such a logo.
- Carole, Orlando, Fl. U.S.A., 08/7/2009 23:26
I’m sure the ten-year-old Miss Obama’s rationale regarding nuclear arms, the missile shield which currently protects our European allies etc. is equally as well thought-out as her father’s. Which is to say, totally naive and extremely dangerous for millions. Nuclear technology is here to stay, and it is a very foolish thought indeed to discard your own protection and putting your faith in the despots of the world doing the same.
- Charles, Virginia, 08/7/2009 23:25
Double Take
July 8, 2009 at 2:31 pm | In Media Watch | Leave a CommentTags: daily beast, foreign policy, foreignpolicy.com
Just realized after that last post that FP’s site looks remarkably similar to the Daily Beast, note the “Cheat Sheet” vs “Flash Points”
FP Going After the 18-24 Demo
July 8, 2009 at 2:19 pm | In Barack Obama | Leave a CommentTags: foreign policy, G8
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