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White House Press Secretary Gibbs angers Pelosi

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs angered Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats by recognizing in an appearance on Meet The Press on Sunday that there are "enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to take control of the House" (meaning that enough campaigns are close and either a Republican or Democrat could win in.

This Politico article explains Pelosi's anger and you can watch the video below where Gibbs made the comments.

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Daily Training for June 10th: Lincoln Bucks Tide; Business Leaders Win in California

Perhaps it wasn't "Super Tuesday" but it was a pretty good primary election day on Tuesday--the biggest in this cycle. This NY Times article reviews the results--which included many wins for women.

Daily Training for June 8th: Israel as a Strategic Liability?

Today's Daily Training is an analysis by Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies of US policy with Israel.

Daily Training for June 3rd: Spain proposes total smoking ban in bars and restaurants

I received this article from the Independent today from an American friend who used to live in Madrid, her comment was "is this possible?"

Dianne Feinstein to Barbara Boxer’s defense

As a woman, a Californian and a Democrat I am very proud of our state's two female Democratic Senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. So I appreciated this article which tells of how Boxer's Republican challenger is trying to point out differences between the two Senators in order to gain Democratic votes and Feinstein spoke out strongly against her and in defense of Boxer.

Daily Training for June 1st: Once More, With Feeling

Maureen Dowd's recent column has some tough criticism for Obama and tops the NY Times most e-mailed list.

Bill Clinton: essential article and video

There has been a couple interesting bits about Bill Clinton this week. Today, Politico published a very interesting analysis titled "Clinton-Obama: The back story." Also, Clinton gave a CNN interview where he said that Obama has gotten a "bum rap" (unfair criticism) on the oil spill. What I think is even more important are his words about leading in times of crises.

Daily Training for May 26th: Zapatero's cuts

This week's Economist analyzes Zapatero's recent spending cuts.

Daily Training for May 25th: Obama versus the corporations

Today's Daily Training is Paul Krugman's Sunday column.

The power of the pen & the fall of a general

I did a lot of blogging on Wednesday about General Stanley McChrystal and the astonishing article written about him by Michael Hastings in Rolling Stone Magazine. Rolling Stone is not a typical place for political revelations but this was a big one and because the subject of heated debate among the pundits since it online publication on Tuesday at 10:00am. Within 24 hours he was in the White House offering his resignation to President Obama.