Even the Left is admitting that Barack Obama has fatally hurt future bipartisanship efforts.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 12th at 11:30 AM  | 

John Dickerson took perhaps too long to get to this paragraph, and he wrote it through gritted teeth, but he does put a finger on the central problem for the Obama administration right now: The substantive differences between the president and Republicans on the budget may be insurmountable, but now it seems like even if the pipe dream of a substantive budget agreement could be | Read More »

But at least they have Obama!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 19th at 09:00 PM  | 

There’s a lot of interesting stuff in this John Dickerson article on what last night’s results really mean, but this last paragraph is probably the one that needs to be most referenced: The night showed just how limited Obama’s political power is. He said he’d work all-out for Specter, but he didn’t campaign for the senator in the final days. That may have been a | Read More »