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Hillary Criticizes Pakistan On Terrorism Fight
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized Pakistan's performance in fighting terrorists, telling a group of Pakistani journalists that she thought it was "hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to."

Obama's Day Ahead
President Obama will sign at 11:50 a.m. ET the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009. At 1:30 p.m. ET, he will meet with the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Topics: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, John Murtha, Pakistan, Roundup, Socialism, Tom Coburn

FL-SEN

Jeb Bush Criticizes National GOP Taking Sides For Crist; Rubio Calls For Investigation of ACORN

Eric Kleefeld | September 21, 2009, 4:29PM

Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL) and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R)

Marco Rubio, the former Florida House Speaker and current conservative insurgent GOP candidate for Senate, seems to still have some life in him, despite the rush of money and establishment GOP support to moderate Gov. Charlie Crist.

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports that former Gov. Jeb Bush, a hero of the state's conservatives, told a local Republican club that while he is not endorsing either candidate, he does object to the national GOP's support of Crist in the primary over Rubio.

"I think he [Rubio] should be given a chance," said Bush. "I think that the idea that the national party would pick a winner a year and a half before an election is the wrong way to go."

Rubio is also aiming to get some mileage out of the latest right-wing target: ACORN.

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Topics: ACORN, FL-SEN, Jeb Bush, Senate '10

Jeb Bush

Christie Fundraiser Features Special Attendee: Jeb Bush

Eric Kleefeld | September 17, 2009, 12:41PM

Fmr. US Attorney Chris Christie (R-NJ) and Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL)

Former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, the GOP nominee for Governor of New Jersey, ended up having a very special (and, he says, a surprise) guest at a fundraiser last night: Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL).

Christie told the Star-Ledger that a co-host of the event had invited Bush without notifying him, and he didn't know about it until he was on the way to the event itself. Also, Bush did not give a speech. However, Christie and Bush did get their picture taken together, and Christie said that the visit by Jeb "doesn't cause a problem for me" politically.

The Corzine campaign, which has sought to bring Christie down by reminding voters in this Democratic state that Christie himself was a Bush administration official, was quick to pounce last night in a statement: "Christie has vowed to do for New Jersey what George Bush did to the country, by embracing his massive tax cuts for big corporations that will force property taxes higher and drive us deeper into debt and deficit. If that's the economics he embraces, it's no surprise Christie is embracing Bush's brother,

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Topics: Jeb Bush, NJ-GOV

Barack Obama

TPMDC Morning Roundup

Eric Kleefeld | July 9, 2009, 9:02AM

Obama Calls For Climate Deal This Year
At the G8 Summit, President Obama called for the member countries to make continued progress on climate change, before a new round of U.N. treaty talks this December. Press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that Obama said "there was still time in which they could close the gap on that disagreement in time for that important (meeting)."

Obama's Day In Italy
President Obama is in Rome today. At 3:30 a.m. ET (9:30 a.m. local time), he met with Brazilian President Lula da Silva. At 4 a.m. ET, he attended a meeting of leaders of the G-8, plus China, India, Mexico, South Africa and Egypt, with a working lunch at 6:30 a.m. ET. At 8:30 a.m. ET, he attended a meeting with representatives of the Junior 8, and he attended a world trade discussion at 9 a.m. ET. At 10:15 a.m. ET, he will attend a Major Economies Forum discussion on the environment, and will make a statement to the press at 12:30 p.m. ET. AT 2:30 p.m. ET, he will attend a G-8 working dinner, hosted by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.

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Topics: Barack Obama, Carl Levin, Climate Change, Harry Reid, Health Care, Jeb Bush, Joe Biden, Sonia Sotomayor, Stimulus, Supreme Court

Pres '12

Poll: No Immediate Republican Frontrunner For 2012

Eric Kleefeld | June 2, 2009, 4:11PM

A new CNN poll finds that there is no immediate frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2012. Here are the numbers, with a ±4.5% margin of error among GOP respondents:

Mike Huckabee 22%
Sarah Palin 21%
Mitt Romney 21%
Newt Gingrich 13%
Jeb Bush 6%
Someone else (volunteered answer) 10%

At this point there really doesn't need to be an immediate Republican frontrunner. It's even quite plausible that the lack of a current leading candidate could have its own mix of pluses and minuses.