Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo: ‘Yell,’ ‘Stand Up And Shout Out,’ ‘Rattle Him’ http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/31/recess… / This morning, Politico reported that Democratic members of Congress are increasingly being harassed by “angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior” at local town halls. For example, in one incident, right-wing protesters surrounded Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) and forced police officers to have to escort him to his car for safety.

Is she running or not? – rochesterturning.com 07/31/2009 That’s the question everyone wants answered from Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. At first, it looked like a near certainty that she would jump into the race for US Senate against the appointed incumbent, Kirsten Gillibrand. But with each passing day, that’s looking less and less likely. Earlier today, her own campaign staff was throwing cold water on the idea of a statewide run, saying that she was probably not going to follow thro

Is she running or not? – rochesterturning.com 07/31/2009 That’s the question everyone wants answered from Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. At first, it looked like a near certainty that she would jump into the race for US Senate against the appointed incumbent, Kirsten Gillibrand. But with each passing day, that’s looking less and less likely. Earlier today, her own campaign staff was throwing cold water on the idea of a statewide run, saying that she was probably not going to follow through on her desire to challenge Gillibrand in the Democratic primary.

July 31st, 2009 admin Posted in news | Comments Off Politico – House Speaker’s message: one part pro-consumer, one part attacking the health insurance industry.

Politico : By EAMON JAVERS Five years after he put his money behind the Swift Boat ads that helped tank John Kerry’s presidential campaign, Senate Democrats gave T. Boone Pickens a warm welcome at their weekly policy lunch Thursday. Or at least most of them did. Kerry skipped the regularly scheduled lunch; his staff said the Massachusetts Democrat “was unable to attend because he had a long scheduled lunch with his interns and pages.” Sen. Al Franken managed to make time for the lunch — but then let Pickens have it afterward.

Politico – Four more CEOs pay for lunch with Obama, but beers for Gates and Crowley were on the Read more: (Politico)”> (Politico)”>Free beer at the W.H., but CEOs pay (Politico)

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Politico reports that Gibbs has used the tactic of saying he’s not going to “get into” an issue more than 120 times during the Obama administration’s first six months in office.

Washington Post’s Milbank: Clinton’s Drink is ‘Mad Bitch Beer’ – taylormarsh.com 07/31/2009 If you want to know why Clinton supporters are so sensitive to media criticism of women , including Sarah Palin , I give you exhibit A from Dana Milbank. This is the crap we listened to throughout last year, but continues today. I got an email from a Clinton supporter today complaining that Dylan Ratigan said something derogatory about Secretary Clinton today on MSNBC.

TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld appeared on Charlie Rose last night to discuss the Microsoft/Yahoo search deal alongside Steven Levy of Wired and Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal . The group talked about the initial deal Microsoft offered Yahoo last year to buy Yahoo outright, the complicated nature of this new deal, Microsoft Bing , Yahoo walking away from the search fight rather than engaging, how this was the worst of the deals that Microsoft had offered so far, the Bartz /Ballmer reaction, what this means for Microsoft versus Google now, and the possible antitrust implications of all of this.