James Kotecki sums up the stimulus bill

James Kotecki, formerly the host of The Politico’s KoteckiTV, is back on the net and making some great videos after a few month absence. In his return video, Kotecki discusses the stimulus package:

Gibbs hits back at CNBC commentator

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs hit back hard against CNBC commentator Rick Santelli at his daily briefing today:

This is Santelli’s rant that made the headlines in a flash and caught the nation’s attention:

Anchorage Daily News hits Palin over “Eastern elite” comments

From a column in the Anchorage Daily News:

You say she was unhappy with the eastern media, not the local scribes when she spoke to the convention. Well, during her recent visit to New York City she attended a dinner put together by Rupert Murdoch who, according to gossip columnist Cindy Adams, “piloted Sarah around” during the evening. Murdoch is one of the world’s most influential media barons. Also present was Cathy Black, president of Hearst Magazines. Other VIPS on hand at Tao on 58th Street, where a Kobe rib eye steak costs $88, included Sarah Ferguson, Martha Stewart, designer Vera Wang and the Queen of Jordan. Not the media elite — just the elite.

Campbell Brown attacks McCain campaign for sexism

Matthews & Buchanan fight over Palin media coverage

CNBC reporter says Obama will raise taxes and people who make $200k are “not rich”

CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo is warning New Yorkers that a vote for Obama means that their taxes will be raised significantly. Says Bartiromo on Obama’s tax proposal to raise the capital gains tax:

We’re talking about people who make over $200,000. That’s not rich.

Keith Olbermann attacks Senator Clinton for using RFK assassination as reason to stay in race

Keith Olbermann reserved a very long special comment for Senator Clinton on tonight’s Countdown. He concludes, “…to still not appreciate what you have done today is to reveal an incomprehension about the America you seek to lead.”

Clinton’s home town paper tees off on her

Excerpts from Michael Goodwin’s column in the New York Daily News:

The tenacity that even critics praised suddenly looks tawdry. The persistence against impossible odds appears anything but noble. Long after the party is over, Clinton’s refusal to go home is taking on the trappings of a sad spectacle.

Her inability to accept defeat is not, it seems clear, about public service or even politics. It is merely personal.

With Barack Obama on a glide path to the Democratic nomination – he has insurmountable leads in delegates and popular votes – Clinton’s cringe-inducing performance is doing what her harshest critics never could. It has ripped away any pretense that she actually stands for something.

Tucker Carlson attacks Obama & Clinton

At a Senate Press Secretaries Association event Tucker Carlson, of the now canceled MSNBC show “Tucker” let loose on Senators Obama and Clinton. Tucker said of Obama:

Obama’s the kind of guy you sit with on a flight from Dulles to LAX and you have a few glasses of red wine. You have a great semi-drunk five hours across the country. But you don’t know anything about the guy. He could be the escaped state mental patient.

On Hillary Clinton:

You are a drunk, boorish house guest. Get the hell out of here.

Had Carlson talked on his show like he did about Senator Clinton, he probably would not have been canceled.

New York Times slams Hillary for negativity

The New York Times editorial board has written an editorial, to be published tomorrow, that skewers Senator Clinton for her campaign tactics and calls for the superdelegates to choose a nominee sooner rather than later. Some excerpts:

It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.

If nothing else, self interest should push her in that direction. Mrs. Clinton did not get the big win in Pennsylvania that she needed to challenge the calculus of the Democratic race. It is true that Senator Barack Obama outspent her 2-to-1. But Mrs. Clinton and her advisers should mainly blame themselves, because, as the political operatives say, they went heavily negative and ended up squandering a good part of what was once a 20-point lead.

On the eve of this crucial primary, Mrs. Clinton became the first Democratic candidate to wave the bloody shirt of 9/11. A Clinton television ad — torn right from Karl Rove’s playbook — evoked the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, the Cuban missile crisis, the cold war and the 9/11 attacks, complete with video of Osama bin Laden. “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” the narrator intoned.

If that was supposed to bolster Mrs. Clinton’s argument that she is the better prepared to be president in a dangerous world, she sent the opposite message on Tuesday morning by declaring in an interview on ABC News that if Iran attacked Israel while she were president: “We would be able to totally obliterate them.”

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It is getting to be time for the superdelegates to do what the Democrats had in mind with they created superdelegates: settle a bloody race that cannot be won at the ballot box.

Frank Rich tees off on ABC debate, media and candidates

New York Times columnist, Frank Rich, has written a rather scathing indictment of last week’s ABC News debate, the media and the candidates. Read the entire column here. Some excerpts below:

But viewers of all political persuasions were affronted by the moderators’ failure to ask about the mortgage crisis, health care, the environment, torture, education, China policy, the pending G.I. bill to aid veterans, or the war we’re losing in Afghanistan. Those minutes were devoted not just to recycling the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bosnian sniper fire and another lame question about a possible “dream ticket” but to the unseemly number of intrusive commercials and network promos that prompted the jeering at the end. The trashiest ads often bumped directly into an ABC announcer’s periodic recitations of quotations from the Constitution. Such defacing of American values is to be expected, I guess, from a network whose debate moderators refuse to wear flag pins.

Carl Hiaasen on Florida re-vote

Well worth a look.

Keith Olbermann goes after Clinton over Ferraro’s comments

“…you are now campaigning as if Barack Obama were the democrat and you were the republican.” Olbermann said. He did not hold back.