ALBANY—Wednesday night it was left-leaning demonstrators pushing him on health care. Today, Representative Scott Murphy is in the cross hairs of the National Republican Congressional Committee over the proposed health care restructuring.
The NRCC is sending robocalls to voters in the 20th district--where Murphy was elected this spring to succeed Kirsten Gillibrand--attacking Murphy's Read More
"I've often heard people say it doesn't matter who you vote for, they're all the same," said Jimmy Ellis, a 56-year-old MoveOn.Org member and host of a calling party Thursday night for Barack Obama in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. "But now, since the election in 2000, I think we can see really clearly, even if you don't Read More
Early on, Mr. Obama captured the fancy of the bicoastal artistic community, and he’s gone Read More
MoveOn, the online network that connects more than 3 million progressives nationwide , has officially endorsed Barack Obama. This may seem like a big deal, since MoveOn has 1.7 million members in the 22 states that will vote next Tuesday, but it probably won't amount to much. MoveOn's members, on the whole, are highly Read More
The ad, with the headline "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?", elicited outraged responses from President George W. Bush, Rudolph Giuliani and other Republicans, and more Read More
Here’s the script.
Voiceover: MoveOn.org is the most powerful left wing group in the country. They spent millions electing anti-war liberals. And publicly brag how the Democratic Party is theirs - bought and paid Read MoreHere's the script for "She Changed."
NARRATOR: "In 2002, Hillary Clinton voted to authorize military action in Iraq Read More
Here, fresh off the "Betray Us" stuff, is a new ad from MoveOn.org attacking President Bush's latest Iraq plan.
9:30 a.m. The U.S. Department of Labor will hold an Equal Employment Opportunity Awards program at the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, at 1 Bowling Green. 10 a.m. The Food Bank for New York will launch a backpack program to address childhood hunger at home at the Citizens Advice Bureau, Read More
I can't stop talking about the wonderful-horrible AJC report, it's so changed the landscape. Again I say, give credit where credit is due: this was the AJC's reactionary pushback against Carter and Walt and Mearsheimer, and it blew up on the Jewish right/mainstream when the Times actually chose to write about it. Thus the anti-intellectual, Read More
Here is one of the graphs MoveOn.org just sent out. On the left is the number of phone calls their supporters made to voters on behalf of Democratic challenger John Hall in his race against Rep. Sue Kelly. On the right is the margin by which Hall won. Message: MoveOn put Hall and other Democrats Read More
Pete King says he is completely confident that he will win reelection tonight, and he is still trying to figure out why, aside from a couple of questionable polls, anyone ever thought he was in trouble. His answer: It was Newsday. "It's five hours to the polls, but based on everything I know, as of Read More
MoveOn.org hasn't been friendly territory to Joe Lieberman for some time, but some of the criticism of the hawkish "independent" Senator on its website has now drawn the attention of the Anti-Defamation League. Lieberman's spokesman Dan Gerstein forwards this letter from the ADL, denouncing the tone of some of the comments on MoveOn's message Read More
First problem is, the Clinton-Tasini question was No. 4 in a mailing with the subject line, "Help Set MoveOn's Course." Second problem is that it went Read More
During a very friendly appearance on conservative commentator Glenn Beck's radio show, Greg Sargent reports, Joe Lieberman agreed with just much of what Beck said, including that the real reason we invaded Iraq wasn't over WMD but because we wanted to "pop the head of the snake in Iran." After receiving some attention from Read More
