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3:00 PM, Jan 20, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

A bit of a (Freudian?) slip earlier today when Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa referred to President Obama's senior adviser as Mr. Fluff:

In fact, Villaraigosa must have meant David Plouffe.

9:23 AM, Nov 30, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

This morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough talked about President Obama’s terrible poll numbers and said that some think “David Plouffe is now acting as president of the United States."

11:01 AM, Apr 12, 2011 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

Chris Wallace’s interview with David Plouffe on Fox News Sunday suggests an administration that’s afraid to argue for what it really wants, isn’t sure what to say it really wants, and isn’t saying anything very well.

Less Obama goes a long way.

Apr 11, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 29 • By FRED BARNES

President Obama isn’t quite in hibernation. But he’s saying less, proposing less, appearing in public less, doing less, interacting with Congress less, plugging his health care plan less, and singling out a Republican demon less. It took two years and the harsh rejection of a midterm election for Obama to figure out what shouldn’t have been a secret: The magic of the presidency declines with overindulgence.

Yadda, yadda.

8:07 AM, Jan 26, 2010 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM

First up, we have what will certainly be an excrutiatingly long and boring SOTU speech outlining billions in new spending despite the fact that Obama just announced a spending freeze.

After that, we citizens will get the opportunity to ask him questions via YouTube for an online town hall. I'm going to chime in with something like, "Why, Mr. President, do Republicans hate you and sick people so much?"

11:41 AM, Jan 25, 2010 • By MATTHEW CONTINETTI

Mark Shields gets it:

Press Pool, C-SPAN Join Criticism of Conference Process on Health-Care

"It was a promise that's been shattered."

9:30 AM, Jan 5, 2010 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM

Yesterday, several outlets reported that the Democrats would "almost certainly" forgo the official conference process to get a health-care bill passed, opting instead to negotiate largely behind closed doors. Now, C-SPAN and other media outlets are criticizing the plan's lack of transparency.

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