Despite Pundit Claims, Offshore Drilling Support is Down Significantly

By: Tuesday May 25, 2010 6:25 am

Seizing on a recent NBC/WSJ poll (PDF) showing 60% of Americans continue to support offshore drilling, several journalists and pundits have implied that support for offshore drilling has not declined sharply in recent weeks. As I’ll show below, this is absolutely false.

What Democrats Does DanGerstein Consult For, And Why Don’t They Fire Him?

By: Friday February 26, 2010 1:28 pm

Longtime Lieberman mouthpiece Dan Gerstein is portrayed in Politico as a “Democratic political consultant” whenever they need someone to run down the Democrats or, as today, tout the Republicans. Who still hires this hack, and how can they defend that now?

Politico Smears Obama’s Islamic Envoy

By: Saturday February 20, 2010 6:19 pm

Sometimes I wish I could feel more sympathy for our amiable non-entity of a President, so maybe I should be grateful to the miserable news-whores at Politico.com for inspiring me with a desire to enlist in the Army of Obamabots and bash Politco’s internet servers into smithereens!

Prairie Recommends: Matthews takes on Politico

By: Tuesday January 5, 2010 4:56 am

Chris Matthews gave Politico’s Jonathan Martin the proverbial 2×4 between the eyes last night. Priceless.

Obama– Salesman for An Unpopular War

By: Saturday November 28, 2009 7:12 pm

Although President Obama won the last presidential election on the key promise of change and reform, his administration has provided neither. It’s clear he’s just a super salesman for many of the same policies as Bush conducted. On Tuesday, he will sell an escalation of war in Afghanistan to the American people.

Politico Swallows Arnold’s “Total coincidence” Tall Tale

By: Friday October 30, 2009 1:38 pm

As part of the continuing saga of the Village media elite’s adoration of the current governor of California despite his ruination of our state’s economy and fiscal health, Politico bought his story — told at the White House no less! — that his hostile and insulting recent veto message that included an obscenity was a “total coincidence.”

Useless Metrics From the Village

By: Friday October 30, 2009 7:50 am

Using Politico “analysis” of the House Health Care Bill

Stop the Presses: Politico Discovers That Republicans Are Odd

By: Thursday October 22, 2009 10:51 am

Politico undertakes some navel-gazing on behalf of the Republican party. The results are hilarious.

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