By Denis G. Campbell
UPDATED President Obama and his party can survive the mid-term elections IF he takes a play out of his own and Bill Clinton’s playbook. Most pundits and talking heads are ginning up the stakes predicting an electoral disaster of 1994 proportions. That was when Republicans swept to power taking almost 60-seats from [...]

(UPDATED) By Denis Campbell
General Election “speed-dating” best characterises the 31-day sprint to the UK’s 06 May finish line. Forget the hoopla surrounding 1st ever televised leadership debates, SPIN rooms, 3D graphic holograms and breathless pundits. All 650 UK House of Commons seats serving 60 million people (a 92,000:1 ratio) are up for grabs (compared to [...]

By Denis Campbell
As US healthcare reform passage draws near, my mailbox fills with incoherent Right Wing hate screed and rage. Meanwhile the Obama Administration and Democratic controlled US Congress seem unwilling to buck the echo chamber and do the right thing.
The public located outside the 24 sq. miles of fantasy surrounded by reality known as [...]

Ummm did he maybe mean 218 votes in the House and 51 in the Senate? Because 218 is what you need to pass a bill in the unbroken lower chamber which has passed 200 bills to then die in the Senate 60 vote needed for a bathroom recess Senate?
You can’t fix stoooopid!

UPDATED: By Denis Campbell
If you hold a passport from Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, countries considered “state sponsors of terrorism” or similar “countries of interest:” Afghanistan, Algeria, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen… don’t plan on making your connecting flight any time soon to your final destination inside the USA.
The attempted underwear [...]

Crosses the Line on 3 Continents and Gets Burned?
by Denis Campbell
It’s not been a good week for Rupert Murdoch. 1st he was caught in an interview by his son’s flagship Aussie broadcast network calling President Obama a racist and denying that FOX News’ Glenn Beck compared Obama to Stalin.
Then his flagship London tabloid The Sun [...]

FIX NOISE’s anchor tries to hit him off the bat with Reverend Wright. Nobody ruffles Plouffe.

By Denis Campbell
Democrats lost Governorships in New Jersey and Virginia and won a House seat in upstate New York as the Republican Party continued to implode. $400 million dollars worth of money could not buy love for NJ’s Governor Corzine or Mayor Bloomberg (but ‘da mayor’ narrowly won his so coveted 3rd term that he [...]

Specter visits the dark side (FOX News studios) and calls out Repubs as obstructionists

by Denis Campbell
In a firestorm of repudiation against Republican special interest backed ‘Astro-turfing’ (covering over real issues with pretty green carpets) and shouting down Democratic Congress members in boisterous town hall meetings, the just released Gallup National Poll shows only 5 states in the US can be listed as solidly or leaning Republican while 37 [...]