On Sunday morning’s Meet The Press, host David Gregory told his panel that senior White House adviser David Plouffe “broke new ground” in attacking GOP establishment presidential hopeful Mitt Romney as having “no core.”

Republican panelist Mike Murphy thought Plouffe owed Romney an apology, while Tom Brokaw pointed out that “the record is there,” but they’re all really late to the party here.

On Friday, Meet The Press host David Gregory promoted the idea that “the President got everything he wanted and it didn’t work,” in an appearance on Morning Joe, and Mediaite challenged the accuracy of that claim. Sunday morning, Gregory changed his tune, somewhat, while interviewing senior White House adviser David Plouffe for Meet The Press, playing the Mitch McConnell quote again, but heavily disclaiming his questions to Plouffe. Even when “working the ref” works, though, it doesn’t always really “work.”

For most of his short career in cable news, Jimmy McMillan has been showcased alone for his auctioneer’s voice and amazingly sculpted facial hair. Now that he’s running for president, however, he’s got to learn to play well with others, and on last night’s Follow the Money McMillan had to debate Eric Bolling‘s panel, including a confused Dr. Marc Lamont Hill who didn’t understand why McMillan was attacking him for holding the same views.

White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe yesterday suggested that Donald Trump is a “sideshow” with “zero chance” of being elected President. Plouffe should have expected that there was “zero chance” Trump would hear such remarks and not be eager to retaliate.

Is Donald Trump a serious presidential candidate or simply a promotional spectacle distracting Americans from serious issues right in front of him? The amount of media attention he has garnered in the last week — complete with rather stunning polls suggesting that he’s a leading GOP candidate — suggest a serious candidacy. But at least one of Obama’s serious advisers dismisses Trump’s political rhetoric as a frivolous endeavor that mainstream Americans see as a “sideshow.”

White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe made the rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows, but the conversation got a little testy in his appearance on Fox News Sunday. When Chris Wallace questioned why Democrats were now fine with some budget cuts that just a few weeks ago they called “draconian,” Plouffe took the opportunity to speak about the Fox News viewers.

White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe appeared on Meet the Press this morning and even though one budget fight might over, Plouffe made clear that President Obama is readying to tackle the longer-term budget issues. Later this week Obama will speak about a deficit-reduction strategy, but until then Plouffe defended the cost-cutting actions already taken by the President.

White House senior advisor David Plouffe appeared with Brian Williams on NBC after the State of the Union and made more news with what was left out of the speech than with what was included in it. Responding to criticism that President Obama did not include any mention of gun control in the speech, Plouffe confirmed earlier indications that Obama will address guns separately, at a later time.

Pres. Barack Obama‘s 2008 was a guest on CNN’s John King, USA last night, and weighed in on the primary election in Delaware today and Newt Gingrich‘s recent “Kenyan” comments.

Plouffe echoed a familiar theme in politics when looking at Delaware, and the current Republican party as a whole – blame the media (well, the conservative media).

One could argue that the only thing President Obama has going for his these days is the fact that the GOP can’t seem to dig up a viable leader for their party. Or at least a leader who actually wants to run for election (as opposed to, say, ratings). Obama strategist David Plouffe says the fact Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sarah Palin, all powerful and polarizing media figures, are nominally the heads of the GOP only spells trouble for the party.

Speculation about Hillary Clinton making a run for President in 2012, which began back in July, has made it all the way to Meet the Press. This morning David Gregory asked Obama campaign strategist David Plouffe whether he thought Hillary would challenge President Obama in 2012.

This is an interesting little nod to who the Obama administration really thinks holds the power in the Republican party. David Plouffe, the mastermind behind Obama’s 2008 campaign, is about to release the paperback version of his New York Times bestseller ‘The Audacity to Win’ which recounts and explains the thinking behind that campaign. However, Mike Allen reports that the paperback version has been changed to include a new subtitle, which now reads: “How Obama Won and How We Can Beat the Party of Limbaugh, Beck, and Palin.”

In an extended “This Week” segment in which Obama adviser David Plouffe and Fox News contributor Karl Rove traded talking points, there were a few fireworks right at the end. After Rove spent most of his time attacking the CBO (a sport of political convenience), and Plouffe pushed back against the idea that Democrats would be better off letting healthcare reform die, the pair revisited a Bush-era battle over the “Mission: Accomplished” banner.

Now that the White House’s war on Fox appears to have simmered down it looks like they may have found a new target for their frustration with media coverage: Politico. Sort of. Now, if only every battle with the press represented a skit on The Daily Show.

The haircut story was first broken by Ben Smith at the then only three-month-old blog Politico. Yesterday Smith revealed the source of haircut tip: wonder-boy Obama campaign adviser David Plouffe. Will we see similar political savvy going forward? Particularly if Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin continue to dominate the GOP?

Who: David Plouffe What: Book event for “The Audacity to Win” Where: Barnes and Noble Union Square When: November 3, 2009 Thumbs: Up

Earlier today, Mediaite’s Glynnis MacNicol reported on a new Rasmussen poll that indicates that while 44% of adults (although they never do get to how children would vote) say they would vote to re-elect President Obama were the election held today, 49% say they would not. She correctly notes that the poll doesn’t consider a hypothetical opponent, or other variables.

So yes. As the saying goes, what a difference a year makes. Twelve months after the momentous election of Barack Obama as the nation’s 44th president, a poll shows that were the election to be held today Obama might not be so successful.

Former Barack Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, appearing on Meet the Press this morning, set the table for what will likely be the conversation of the week: The meaning of the “Palin Effect” in the NY-23 congressional race. Plouffe managed to crystallize the Democratic Party’s hopes going forward, saying “Sarah Palin is playing Pied Piper to the Republicans,” referencing Palin’s endorsement of 3rd party candidate Doug Hoffman. Is Palin leading Republicans off an electoral cliff, or into a glorious era of ideological purity?

Sarah Palin’s public will have to wait few weeks to discover what the former Governor of Alaska has to say about all things Palin, but in the meantime perhaps they can feast upon a few interesting details from David Plouffe’s new book The Audacity to Win about the 2008 campaign. What did Obama really think about McCain’s choice for V.P.?

I can’t say I started crying during the opening credits of the upcoming HBO documentary By The People: The Election of Barack Obama, but only because I got to the theater five minutes late. The film — which will air on November 3 on HBO — begins in Iowa in 2007, eight months before the caucuses and light years before today, and spends nearly half of its two-hours focusing on the state and the young supporters populating its campaign headquarters.