A former member of George W. Bush’s senior staff said that the tea party activist who confronted Barack Obama in Iowa was using an inappropriate tactic to try to embarrass the president. At the town-hall meeting on Monday, founder and chairman of the Iowa Tea Party Ryan Rhodes interrupted and confronted Obama about a disputed report that during a closed-door meeting with House Democrats, Vice President Joe Biden called tea party activists “terrorists” for holding the debt-ceiling negotiations "hostage."
The New Republic ^ | May 23, 2008 | by Jay Roach, Danny Strong, and Jonathan Chait
"Brad Blakeman, a very charming, intelligent spinmeister in Florida depicted in the film. He was, by his own account, the man at least partly behind "Sore Loserman," "Surrender Gorethy," "The Gorinch Who Stole the Election,"
Regular readers know I'm not in the habit of choosing unflattering screencaps, but sometimes devotion to accurately portraying the tenor of an event demands it. Which it does in spades in conveying the vituperation unleashed in an exchange between Dem strategist Julie Roginsky and GOP strategist Brad Blakeman on MSNBC today, in the course of debating the Edwards blogger brouhaha.Words don't come close to doing justice to the Roginksy vitriol. I urge you to view the video here.Roginsky began the conversation by asserting that Edwards did the right thing in retaining the two bloggers with a history of making...