When candidate Obama talked about bringing us all together, this is presumably not what he had in mind . . .
There was surprising consensus on today’s Morning Joe around the fact that this is an arrogant White House.  It was press secretary Robert Gibb’s boast—responding to Pres. Bush’s rather mild recent remarks—that “we kept score [...]

Was Joe Biden giving solid advice . . . or sowing the seeds of panic?  Asked on Today this morning how he’d counsel family members in light of the swine flu, the Veep said he wouldn’t take a plane, a subway train, or be in any other confined space.
Just minutes later, the Morning Joe crew [...]

How is this going to go down at the White House?
According to Chris Matthews, Hillary Clinton doesn’t work for Barack Obama. He might have named her Secretary of State, but she’s not his “employee” and doesn’t see herself taking orders from him.  Instead, she “thinks originally” about messages to be sent abroad,  and Hillary and [...]

Yo Smerc: who’s “we”?  You voted for Barack Obama . . .
But let’s leave Michael Smerconish’s presidential preferences aside and focus on the substance of his remarks.  On this evening’s Hardball, Smerconish claimed that Republicans  need to “dilute the influence of the conservatives in the Republican presidential nominating process, because we are nominating people who [...]

The thrill is back!  Chris Matthews got a Churchillian frisson from the Obama speech–even before the president delivered it.
During the Hardball pre-game, Matthews declared this to guests Pat Buchanan and Larry O’Donnell:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Here’s the key line, I think, though there will be others.  “The day of reckoning has arrived,” this is Senator, this is [...]