Today, we're launching "Norm's Democratic Dollar A Day".
NOT IN ALBANY Despite all of the talk of shared sacrifice and not filling in longterm gaps with short-term federal stimulus dollars, Democratic leaders in New York's State Legislature have produced a budget that is $10 billion more than last year's and crammed full of favors.
The president's Republican rivals have repeatedly cited the specter of a billion-dollar Democratic re-election campaign as a way to motivate their supporters to donate.
The president's Republican rivals have repeatedly used the specter of a billion-dollar Democratic re-election campaign as a way to motivate their supporters to donate in an effort to defeat Mr. Obama.
One longtime, high-dollar Democratic fund-raiser said it was also partly a result of Wall Street's anger at Mr. Obama's statements and policies concerning bank regulation, some of which have sent former Obama donors and fund-raisers to the Republicans.
In fact, the slashing rhetoric he used before an adoring crowd in the Texas capital may well have surpassed the typically sober review of the status of Washington that he lays out for high-dollar Democratic donors.
For years, he has given thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates, serving as the inaugural chairman for two Democratic governors.
It has done as much as anyone to catalyze opposition to the Iraq war, to build the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and through its prowess in raising tens of millions of dollars for Democratic Congressional campaigns, to help the Democrats retake Congress.
Among the headlines shown in the latest Romney ad: "Report: Obama's big-money raisers get key posts, access, stimulus dollars," and "Democratic donors rewarded with W.H. perks".
