Taylor Marsh is a political analyst, writer and author focusing on national politics, foreign policy, and women's issues, including internationally. She’s reported from the White House, been profiled in the Washington Post, The New Republic, and has been seen on Washington Journal, CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera English and Arabic, as well as on radio across the dial and satellite, including Bill O’Reilly’s ‘The Factor.’ She relocated to Washington, D.C. in the spring of 2009.

Blog Entries by Taylor Marsh

What Did They Pay You To Give Up Your Dreams?

1 Comments | Posted January 4, 2010 | 09:38 AM (EST)


A girl follows a boy, setting a course away from her own opportunities.

A man loses a job that pays him big bucks, simultaneously being...

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Best and Worst, From Sarah Palin to The Sopranos

40 Comments | Posted January 1, 2010 | 09:15 AM (EST)


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Worst decade: The Republican Party, from Karl Rove's pronouncement of a "permanent majority" to total collapse and minority status.

Worst performance of the year: The Democratic Party, who after securing the White House and a Democratic majority have been so

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Janet Napolitano Eats Her Words

93 Comments | Posted December 29, 2009 | 12:10 PM (EST)


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Like this wasn't predictable.

Can't wait to hear our government's newest knee jerk rules to be set in place to combat the threat of loaded underwear. (The picture above compliments of ABC News.)

Napolitano's quick CYA as predictable as this opening...

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If Obama Was a Liberal We'd Have a Better Bill

401 Comments | Posted December 23, 2009 | 01:22 AM (EST)


Forward the video above to around 1:55. Candidate Obama was against mandates before Pres. Obama demanded them for us all. If Obama was a liberal he would have embraced mandates from the beginning, understanding that...

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No Thrill Up Dylan Ratigan's Leg

73 Comments | Posted December 19, 2009 | 01:14 AM (EST)


That was just painful to watch.

That Rep. Wasserman-Schultz, a progressive dynamo who is among the very best we've got, ducked the obvious implications to the insurance stocks soaring by saying she's not a stock...

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It's Not Lieberman, It's Obama

357 Comments | Posted December 16, 2009 | 10:50 AM (EST)


We've gone from the Teddy Kennedy health care bill to the Joe Lieberman bill.

The Senate is proving it's a failed institution if the Democratic majority can only support legislation that does nothing close to what its original intent. Senators are unwilling to stand up on principle rather than the...

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The Not So Secret Life of Tiger Woods

14 Comments | Posted December 12, 2009 | 02:29 AM (EST)


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Jenny Sandord has filed for divorce. It's the signature 21st century bolt action motion. A woman tied to a man who humiliates her so thoroughly in public that she has nothing to gain by staying. She's got the money and motive, so what's...

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With Secretary Clinton, Why Envoys?

4 Comments | Posted December 7, 2009 | 09:44 AM (EST)


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The subtitle to this post might be It Takes A Heavyweight.

Skeptical of the multi-tiered diplomatic strategy of the Obama administration from the start, color me unsurprised at what hasn't manifested. This reality was driven home after Obama's Afghan speech last week,...

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Can Martha Coakley Beat Pelosi's Candidate in Massachusetts?

11 Comments | Posted December 4, 2009 | 10:42 AM (EST)


In the interview I did with Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley last month, she expressed the unabashed truth about the health care debate on a topic that is usually nuanced to death or sold as inconsequential by other politicians. That Coakley drew a line in the sand shouldn't shock...

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Can an 'Innovation Economy' Save the U.S.?

1 Comments | Posted December 2, 2009 | 10:47 AM (EST)


"The New Frontier is not a set of promises. It is a set of challenges." - John F. Kennedy

We need more political leaders like John F. Kennedy. He envisioned going to the moon and inspired the innovation to make it manifest.

I have got to be honest....

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Jon Meacham Turns Newsweek Into the Onion

16 Comments | Posted November 30, 2009 | 01:48 PM (EST)


As Obama turns to Afghanistan, it seems so fitting that Jon Meacham and Newsweek turn towards Dick Cheney. Ironic that Meacham's cheerleading for Chency has a backdrop of the country Bush-Cheney forgot, giving us all this mess in the first place. Somebody tell Mr. Meacham, because he evidently thinks...

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Obama-Singh Signal Deeper Ties

2 Comments | Posted November 24, 2009 | 05:21 PM (EST)


Obama began with "Namaste," which came at the start of a remarkable press conference that revealed serious new growth in Indian - US relations. The chandelier pictured below gives you the ambiance infusing the state visit by Prime Minister Singh.

The backdrop to this is more speculation about troop increases...

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What Was Newsweek Thinking? (updated)

258 Comments | Posted November 18, 2009 | 11:13 AM (EST)


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This has got to be the worst case of pictorial sexism aimed at political character assassination ever done by a traditional media outlet. After being on the primary front lines of what happened to Hillary Clinton in 2008, that's saying something....

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Mika Brzezinski as Life Coach

10 Comments | Posted November 17, 2009 | 10:19 AM (EST)


Mrs. Brzezinski has a new book coming out, All Things at Once. If that title is any indication of what's inside, I'd say it's the reason in recent studies that women were found to...

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First Hillary, Now Sarah

40 Comments | Posted November 14, 2009 | 11:50 AM (EST)


Here we go again. Hillary was made out to be a she devil, too unqualified from her first lady status to run for Senate, with the same thing being said during her presidential campaign. Now we've got the demonization of a diva. It all amounts to the same thing. With...

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Nancy's Compromise

5 Comments | Posted November 11, 2009 | 01:10 PM (EST)


This isn't just political, it's personal.

Though Speaker Pelosi may find that her compromise was all for naught, as Sen. Ben Nelson, aided by Mr. Lieberman, have drawn a line in the sand, which includes a demand that Stupak-esque language be included or he'll vote against the Senate bill.

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In Pelosi's House, 64 Democrats Sell Women Out

830 Comments | Posted November 8, 2009 | 12:00 AM (EST)


The first female Speaker of the House makes history by passing a health care bill that not only doesn't have a robust public option, but also sells out women's civil rights. The Republicans acted reprehensibly today, heckling women lawmakers like the chamber was a frat house. Think Progress...

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Remembering a Revolution

2 Comments | Posted November 4, 2009 | 03:02 PM (EST)


Thirty years ago an international drama played out that would eventually take down an American president, ushering in a conservative titan that changed the Republican party forever and who was in large part responsible, another thirty years later, for a financial crash in which we're still trying to dig...

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Sarah Palin Is Now the GOP Establishment

30 Comments | Posted November 3, 2009 | 10:49 AM (EST)


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It's the second time this year that Sarah Palin going rogue has paid off. Her "death panels" squeal set Pres. Obama and the Democrats back on their heals, and when she came out to endorse Mr. Hoffman it seemed laughable. It doesn't matter...

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From Caucus Room, Sen. Levin Slams Dick Cheney

Posted October 30, 2009 | 12:06 PM (EST)


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The setting was the beautiful Caucus Room in the Russell Senate office building (pictured above). The event focus was "Afghanistan: Basic Questions - Strategic Choices," organized by the Rand Corp., with Steve Clemons of NAF. The backdrop was Pres. Obama's nighttime...

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