Marshall Wittmann
Marshall Wittmann
Marshall Wittmann is an American pundit, author, and sometime political activist. On November 22, 2006, he was hired to be the communications director and spokesman for Senator Joe Lieberman. Wittmann is a former senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council. In 2012, he became the chief spokesman for AIPAC...
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Blunt is an insider. He is soft-spoken, but a hardcore right-winger who has very close relations with the business community and ideological conservatives. He's not as much of a lightning rod as DeLay.
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Boehner should not start putting pictures on the wall and hanging drapes. This could be a very temporary job if the Republicans lose in November.
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Just by waiting for the Republicans to self-destruct, the Democrats could lose their chance at rebuilding a majority. Politics works in strange ways.
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He could then say with some credibility that progress is being made and paint the Democrats as the party of defeat.
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Usually, a candidate has to nail down the base and move to the centre after the nomination, ... She has the flexibility because she has so much affection from the base.
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Yes, the economy may be doing well, but the standard of living for many Americans is not improving. If the president can't address that anomaly, then his message will likely fall flat.
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You have this dry, parched field, and any spark can set it off. Any hope for a honeymoon for Bush is now dead.
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He's lowered the gap between the Democrats and Republicans on defense. It may very well be an ephemeral victory, but the Democrats will take it. Chuck gave them an issue - Dubai - that they're going to bring up over and over again.
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Clearly, they have to make gains in 2006, or it's possible there will be a contest.
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Even a sitting president who has a vice president running for office doesn't have a great impact on the way the administration behaves. The goal of the next three years is to repair the president's popularity and resolve the situation in Iraq to some decent outcome. ... If Bush leaves office in January 2009 with Iraq in chaos, nothing else will matter.
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Conservatives have woken from a slumber and realized the government has grown exponentially. McCain has been an often-lonely voice calling for a brake on government spending and more fiscal sobriety.
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It's the opposite of what Frank Sinatra sang. If you can make it there, you can't necessarily make it anywhere in the Republican Party.
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It's almost like Bush is running for reelection with peace and prosperity.
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This is the Lord's gift to the Democratic Party. It is not every day that the Democratic Party gets to the right of the Republicans on national security.