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George Soros is an exacting  taskmaster. In return for his money, he demands productivity. What he requires of employees and business associates in the investment world, Soros also demands from the political operatives he funds. “Mr. Soros isn't just writing checks and watching,” notes Wall Street Journalreporter Jeanne Cummings. “He is also imposing a business model on the notoriously unruly world of politics. He demands objective evidence of progress, and assigned an aide to monitor the groups he supports. He studies private polls to track the impact of an anti-Bush advertising campaign, and he is delivering his money in installments,...

They really should have known it wasn’t going to work out when he suggested that “Ellen DeGeneres has crabs.” Sentiments like that are never positive. Perhaps they also should have reviewed one of his lively comic routines before hiring him. Maybe then they would have learned that he’s a racist swine with a penchant for ideas that would make death row inmates blush. Abortion in America is “beautiful”? Not good. No serious person was really surprised to learn that Chris Rock believes only gays watch the Oscars. After his position on gay marriage was recently exposed—“f*** them fa**ots,” he explained...

It'll never happen, but at some point over the next 48 hours or so, President Bush [related, bio] really ought to publicly acknowledge and thank the one group most responsible for making the Bush dynasty possible. Namely, the Massachusetts Democratic Party. Let's face it, without Michael Dukakis and John Kerry [related, bio], there wouldn't have been one, let alone three, Bush administrations. These two ACLU crybabies from the Bay State go down in history as the Laurel and Hardy of American politics, human sacrifices who to this day can't figure out why Americans didn't want to vote for Ivy League...

Stephanie Cutter, the controversial John Kerry for President mouth who was eviscerated by Newsweek and who was blamed for some of the campaign's worst blunders, reportedly is negotiating a return to Ted Kennedy's Senate staff. Sources say Cutter's second stint in Kennedy's communications office is a done deal, a development that has seasoned politicos shaking their heads. ``It's a mystery,'' said one Senate snitch. ``It's very puzzling. People don't know how to digest it.'' But the senior senator is apparently a big fan of the thirtysomething blonde. ``Stephanie is one of the best in the business and would be a...

Here it is, boys and girls... the 5 biggest losers of 2004 4th runner up - The UN & Kofi Annan: With the insurgency still going strong in Iraq this probably could have been a good year for the UN in terms of American bashing. Annan and gang would have loved to have been in complete smug 'we told you so' mode, but instead they find themselves knee deep in the food for oil scandal. (top for at the website)

London's Independent on Sunday is reporting that Tony Blair sent Philip Gould, "his polling guru" and "one of his closest advisers" to meet with Mary Beth Cahill on a "secret peace mission" to mend relations with John Kerry 10 days ago.

Have You No Shame Senators? Judson Cox In January, I wrote a column entitled “The John Edwards North Carolina Knows.” I accused Sen. Edwards of being a side show huckster, a snake oil salesman, a man willing to exploit any situation and use any person to advance his career. I based my evaluation of Edwards, not only on his public statements, but on my personal experience with him. I knew his faults, because I know the man. Many people responded, angrily defending Edwards. This week, Edwards proved my point. Edwards said, at a rally in Newton, Iowa, “... when John...

DEBATE 3: JOHN KERRY OUTS JOHN KERRY"THIS IS NOT A GOOD MAN"   POURQUOI JOHN KERRY EST DANGEREUX POUR L'AMÉRIQUE by Mia T, 10.15.04   DEBATE 3: JOHN KERRY OUTS JOHN KERRY "THIS IS NOT A GOOD MAN" (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)   COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004   election update!JOHN KERRY IS UNFIT~THE SERIES YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF AMBULANCE-CHASING BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE AMBULANCE-CHASING OUT OF THE BOYRAISING TAXES, YOU POOR SLOBS + TERESA'S 11.5% TAX RATE (LAISSEZ-LES MANGER LE GÂTEAU)THE LETHAL DANGER OF JOHN KERRY: SPACE-TIME, TESSELLATIONS OF THE PLANET +...

Sen. John Kerry dispatched campaign chairwoman Mary Beth Cahill to Capitol Hill on yesterday to a meeting with Senate Democrats who expressed anxiety about a string of recent campaign developments. “We were worried after the convention,” said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). “We’re doing fine. Naturally, I’m worried.” Durbin acknowledged that Democrats were anxious but said Cahill’s message to Democrats was upbeat. He noted that the campaign had succeeded in securing three presidential debates through negotiations with Bush campaign officials. Durbin said that after a difficult August, when the Kerry campaign stayed off the air to conserve money because of campaign...

A sequel to a Democratic horror show. Harold Meyerson, editor of the liberal magazine The American Prospect, tells a story of a friend of his who had a dream. He was walking through the headquarters of the Kerry campaign. Behind a door marked "Campaign Manager" he found Kerry manager Mary Beth Cahill. As he drew nearer, however, the woman suddenly ripped off her Cahill mask, behind which was . . . Susan Estrich, Michael Dukakis's campaign manager! Mr. Meyerson's friend woke up screaming.

    Ganged Up Conspiracy at 18th and Swann, NW By Mark Halperin, Lisa Todorovich, Marc Ambinder, David Chalian, Brooke Brower, Mary Hood, Karen Travers, Annie Chiappetta, Jan Simmonds, and Alexandra Avnet with Faryl Ury and Jonathan Greenberger W A S H I N G T O N, Aug. 9, 2004—NOTED NOW TODAY SCHEDULE (all times ET) FUTURES CALENDAR Morning Show Wrap Evening Newscasts Wrap 21 days until the Republican convention 85 days until election day NEWS SUMMARY Ken Mehlman was not invited to Sunday's meeting of the Journalists Division of the Gang of 500. Had the President's campaign...

Okay, now that the Democrats have a presumptive ticket, it’s time to assess them as a pair. This is one of the few instances when the whole is less than the sum of its parts. That’s especially true when the theme the pair apparently wants to advance is “truth.” Several months ago I wrote in detail about three would-be Democratic candidates, two that I knew personally and one by reputation. They were Joe Lieberman, John Kerry and John Edwards. (Yep, it was back when Lieberman was still a faint possibility, and Kerry was a third-place candidate.) Here’s the short version...

Mary Beth, Didn't you listen to the Press conference? Apparently you are calling all those Vets liars when they got up and said they have nothing to do with the Bush White House. Why not release ALL of Kerry's military records as these Veterans have requested? Ask John Kerry to release them all. The Veterans have asked for the complete record and if he has nothing to hide, he should release them. Kerry told medical personnel that they were under fire. Fellow crewmen and commanding officer said they had no encounter with the enemy. Wound was superficial, 'cured' with a...

As he prepares for the most ambitious and defining phase of his presidential candidacy, Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) is relying on image-makers schooled in traditional Kennedy liberalism to sell himself anew to voters as a 21st-century centrist Democrat, a muscular hawk on national defense and deficits. Bob Shrum, longtime confidant of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), is emerging as the most influential shaper of Kerry's image and words. Shrum, a purveyor of populism who has a reputation for angling for control of campaigns and sometimes alienating colleagues in the process, helped elbow out Kerry's campaign manager last year and...

The campaign manager for Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry is being linked to the Senate Judiciary Committee's "Memogate" controversy, which involves alleged Democrat efforts to delay the confirmation of President Bush's judicial nominees. Mary Beth Cahill, a former chief of staff to Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., left her Senate job last November to become Kerry's campaign manager. But in April 2002 when Cahill worked for Kennedy, her name was attached to a controversial memo spelling out a plan to delay the confirmation of Julia Smith Gibbons to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Washington Times reported Thursday.Cahill was...

<p>WASHINGTON — New details about a memo that was at the center of a debate over President Bush's judicial nominees and theft of Democratic papers from the Senate Judiciary Committee shows the source was a staffer with a vested interest in the outcome.</p>