Things are getting interesting in the land of half term governors: Republican leaders are angry with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) for jeopardizing their chances of winning the Senate. Murkowski’s decision to mount a write-in campaign risks splitting the Republican vote between two candidates and could cost her party a safe GOP seat. “I am bothered […]
Last night on the season premiere of Real Time, Bill Maher let out some interesting news. Christine O’Donnell used to be a frequent guest on his old show Politically Incorrect and he said he has a ton of archive video clips to show of her, and even threatened to show one a week until she […]
Today President Obama will announce that he is appointing Elizabeth Warren to the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: The President asked me, and I enthusiastically agreed, to serve as an Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He has also asked me to […]
Things that stop and make you say OMFG: Former eBay executive Meg Whitman is defending $119 million in contributions she has made to her campaign for California governor — a personal spending rate that has now surpassed that of any other political candidate in American history. Whitman’s campaign this week reported another $15 million contribution […]
MSNBC’s First Read has a really good round-up of what last night means for the Republicans: How do we make sense of Christine O’Donnell stunning Mike Castle in Delaware, Carl Paladino crushing Rick Lazio in New York’s GOP gubernatorial primary, and Kelly Ayotte and Ovide Lamontagne still running neck-and-neck in New Hampshire’s Senate GOP contest? […]
The AP has just called it for Delaware’s Tea Partier extraordinaire and Palin protege Christine O’Donnell. This just helped secure Biden’s old seat for the Democrats.
OK just shoot me now: Democrats are hoping they’ve found a new weapon for the November midterm election — the vulnerable appeal of teen pop star Justin Bieber. “Bieber can’t vote in our midterms (he’s both too young and too Canadian),” runs a get-out-the-vote clip that’s being showcased by the liberal outreach group Campus Progress, […]
This is some really good news for those of us in OH-8: The Democratic National Committee is launching a new ad targeting West Chester’s John Boehner, who would become House Speaker if the Republicans take the House. It starts airing on cable nationally Tuesday, according to DNC spokesman Alec Gerlach. I think I speak for […]
For a party that claims to be increasing the size of their tent, the party elders seem hell bent on keeping it the size of a teepee. Case in point, Newt Gingrich: Citing a recent Forbes article by Dinesh D’Souza, former House speaker Newt Gingrich tells National Review Online that President Obama may follow a […]
Right now on Drudge’s home page, here is the main headline. Of course if you go to the article he is linking, you see this: Hundreds of family members of Sept. 11 victims recited loved ones’ names through tears on the ninth anniversary of the attacks Saturday, avoiding direct mention of the political furor over […]