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Sam Stein

DNC Fights Boehner Over Stimulus Falsehood (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The Democratic National Committee is taking the aggressive step of going after Republican politicians, accusing them of posturing and hypocrisy, when ...

Dems To Raise Funds Directly Through Twitter

The Atlantic | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The new tech wave in politics is now going a step further: Democrats are raising money directly on Twitter....

Biden Met With Anger At Gay DNC Fundraiser: "No One Is Happy Now"

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is taking heat from some gays and lesbians for not fulfilling campaign pledges. He's also taking their cash....

Stonewall Dems Complain DNC Cut Their Funding, Drop Support From Biden Event

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The board of directors of the National Stonewall Democrats are dropping their support for a June 25 DNC fundraiser with Vice President Joe Biden over,...

Gays To Obama: "If Not Now, When?"

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Chris Weigant

The political reality is that -- especially for contentious issues -- there is a very small window for presidents to get things done.

DNC-LGBT Fundraiser Boycott Called For Over White House DOMA Defense

AMERICAblog | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Pam Spaulding has published an email detailing just who's coming to the DNC's $1,000 (and up) a head gay fundraiser next week. I suspect those folks a...

Limbaugh: GM and Obama Must Fail

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Steve Parker

A pair of right-wing radio hosts says there's only one choice for conservatives angry about government involvement in the auto industry: Boycott GM.

Do The Democrats Think We're Stupid in Hollywood? (Yes!)

Richard Walden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Richard Walden

It is pornographic to continue the $5 billion 2008 election campaign just 5 months after we swore in a new President and new Congress.

Arthur Delaney

DNC Mocks Steele's "Strategic" Achievements In New Ad (VIDEO

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

RNC Chairman Michael Steele'sinsistence that everything he does is part of his big strategy to lead the GOP is back to haunt him (again) in a new vide...

DNC Forms Commission To Reform Nominating Process

New York Times | Jeff Zeleny | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

President Obama has been in the White House for only two months and three days, but his strategists at the Democratic National Committee are already l...

DNC Hammers Palin For Refusing Of Stimulus Funds

The Huffington Post | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said on Thursday that she will accept just 69 percent of the estimated $930 million in federal stimulus funds that could flow ...

Obama Using Campaign Email List To Fight For Budget Passage

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

President Obama will kick off an all-out grass-roots effort today urging Congress to pass his $3.55 trillion budget, activating the extensive campaign...

Obama To Headline First Fundraiser As President, Faces "Donor Fatigue"

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

President Barack Obama will headline the first fundraiser of his presidency this month, appealing to donors large and small even as the economy strugg...

Nico Pitney

DNC Blasts Boehner For Claiming GOP No Longer Plans To Legislate

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Democrats are taking aim at Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) for admitting that he has advised his fellow House Republicans to no longer think of...

DNC Accuses South Carolina Gov. Of 'Playing Politics' In New Ad (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who has raised the ire of state and Capitol Hill lawmakers (and the unemployed) this week for announcing his dec...

Sam Stein

Limbaugh Billboard Slogans: DNC Releases Top Five

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Democrats are not slowing down their efforts to try and tie the Republican Party to Rush Limbaugh. On Tuesday, the Democratic National Committee rele...

Obama Victory Party Costs Still Owed To Chicago

Chicago Sun Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

Chicago has yet to recoup the $1.74 million cost of President Obama's victory celebration in Grant Park -- despite a burgeoning $50.5 million budget s...

Republicans Fiddle with Abortion While America Burns

Paul Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Paul Jenkins

The Republican strategy sounds like the demon child of Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's five-year plans: a criminal intolerance of social differences combined with an outrageously failed economic policy.

FEC Raises Political Contributions Limit

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The Federal Election Commission announced Friday increased contribution limits for the 2009-2010 federal campaign cycle. Donors may now contribute $2...

Sam Stein

Obama Welcomes Kaine To DNC, Praises Dean's Legacy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Barack Obama heaped praise on incoming DNC Chairman Tim Kaine during a press conference with the Virginia Governor at the party's headquarters on Thur...

Friday Talking Points [60] -- Democratic Assertiveness Training

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Chris Weigant

What a week! With Congress back in session, with the excitement of newly-elected members being sworn in (or barred at the door, as the case may be), ...

Dean Allies: Obama Snubbed Him

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The conspicuous absence of Howard Dean from Thursday's press conference announcing Tim Kaine's appointment as Democratic National Committee chair was ...

New DNC Head Kaine Offers Corporate Donors Access

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Virginia Governor Tim Kaine has a Harvard Law School degree, has twice won statewide office, and is fluent in Spanish. It's a recent line on his resum...

Howard Dean for Education Secretary

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Cenk Uygur

I would love to have Howard Dean in the cabinet. Not so much because he's a progressive as because he is right. I am of the naïve belief that that should matter.

Simon Rosenberg is the Perfect Choice for DNC Chair

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Paul Abrams

The selection of the right Chairman of the Democratic National Committee to succeed Howard Dean is critical to the success of the Obama Presidency.