▼ Author Community Vote 77 days ago Ari Melber Newsweek Taps Bush Aide For Obama Reporting - — See if you can follow this logic. — A recent article in Newsweek states that Democrats could have won a “very significant number of Republican votes in Congress” for the stimulus — had there only been a “meaningful tax-cut component.” 110 days ago Ari Melber A.P. Asks if Obama is "obnoxiously articulate" - — Political reporters have now toggled from worrying that Obama gets “too much” media coverage to asking whether he is “too” good at communicating through the media. Maybe even obnoxiously good. Maybe even — here comes that loaded word from the primaries — too articulate.