Liberal Pundit: Scandal-Free Obama Has Avoided ‘Second-Term Curse’

December 26th, 2015 12:12 AM

Bill Scher runs a website called Liberal Oasis, which makes it unsurprising that his Monday RealClearPolitics column celebrated President Obama’s avoidance (so far) of the “second-term curse” that supposedly afflicted George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and some of their predecessors in the White House. Scher exults that Obama “has not been knocked off course by scandal” and lauds him for “master[…

UPDATED: Nets Ignore Poll Showing Obama Approval at an All-Time Low

September 5th, 2014 12:37 AM
The evening newscasts for the major broadcast networks came and went on Thursday night and ABC, CBS, and NBC refused to cover a new poll from Gallup that showed President Barack Obama’s approval rating at an all-time low of 38 percent. After the CBS Evening News made mention of a CBS News poll on Tuesday showing only 36 percent of Americans approving of how Obama was doing his job when it came to…

Paul Waldman: GOP Base’s Anger, Perpetual Dissatisfaction Are ‘Inc

June 14th, 2014 4:01 PM
The term “permanent revolution” is usually associated with Marxism, but American Prospect blogger Paul Waldman believes that these days, it’s movement conservatives who are talkin’ about a permanent revolution, and that their ideal Republican pol is an “agent of chaos and destruction, or at least pretend[s] that's who he is.” In a Thursday post, Waldman quoted RealClearPolitics analyst Sean…

RealClearScience Nails Shabby Maddow Spin on Fracking and Earthquakes

August 13th, 2012 3:10 PM
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow engaging in "unscientific, selective reporting of the facts" -- no! This is what RealClearScience's Alex Berezow is alleging in response to a Maddow segment last week linking a series of minor earthquakes in Texas to fracking in the Lone Star State. (video after page break)