Victory Over the Air: Rush – 1, Obama – 0

Light up the victory cigar.  Team Obama has surrendered.   Operation Hush Rush is history. Mike Allen, Politico:

Beginning Sunday, the White House will harness every part of the Democratic Party’s machinery to defend President Obama’s budget and portray Republicans

Somehow, I ended up on the mailing list of the New York GOP.  Found this in my mail last night:

“Since its founding, the Republican Party has stood for the time honored values and ideals of opportunity, personal responsibility, accountability

I note by way of  Ben Smith at Politico, another arranged wrestling match on our horizon… Newt v Rush. There’s nothing like the spectacle of conservatives having a disagreement while the Soros Dominated Dinosaur media stands on the sidelines

David Saltonstall,  Daily News, (New York) tries his hand at hit a piece, “”Rush Limbaugh is rich, nasty and now de facto don of Republican Party:”

If Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican Party,

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This is the “Boy am I looking forward to spring” edition.

It’s getting warmer around here. It started this morning above 50

I’ve been watching this grudge match between Michael Steele and the grass roots, including Rush Limbaugh, with a jaundiced eye. I’ve seen this developing before, and frankly I see it as a part of the anti-Republican-grassroots  efforts I’ve commented

Joyner, this morning:

Via Glenn Reynolds, I see that Paul Kotkin has written an interesting essay on an “internal civil war” [Is there another kind? -ed.] looming within the Democratic Party:

This is the Democratic Party’s

James Joyner points to an article at Next Right I noticed last night.

Patrick Ruffini decries the “Joe-the-Plumberization of the GOP.”

If you want to get a sense of how unserious and ungrounded most Americans think the Republican Party is,

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Obama’s press conference. What can be said? Nothing, and yet everything. It’s a target rich environment, as I said this monring, and

Barack Obama has an approval rating of eighty-three percent, and the undisputed media darling.   Mrs. Pelosi has an approval rating of twenty percent.   That will not stop Mrs. Pelosi from enacting her agenda, not BO’s, Arthur Bruzzone, San Francisco Examiner

Mike Allen at The Politico:

In a surprising rebuke to the warriors who fought for him through tough times, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday sided with President-elect Barack Obama and scolded the Republican National Committee for fanning the

Color me confused.   If you listen to most leftards and were so stupid as to actually believe them, you’d think that humans had one of five genders and could change at will by simple virtue of which restroom they choose

• Yeah, I was out all weekend. So, we made the trip over the weekend, to Fair Haven State Park, which is one of the best in the state. There’s a problem, though with the state Reservation system for their campgrounds;

Courtesy of the Tennessee Republican Party.

 Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.

James Joyner at OTB mentions the current reading at Electoral-vote.com and says:

If the election were held today, Barack Obama would cruise to victory with 317 Electoral Votes to John McCain’s 194, according to projections tabulated by Electoral-Vote.com. Florida,