For someone who is always out campaigning against federal spending, Rick Perry sure seems hell bent on seeing some federal money: Texas officials filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Department of Education, seeking to overturn the federal agency’s rejection of the state’s application for more than $830 million in aid that has been tied […]
Sens. George Voinovich of Ohio and George LeMieux of Florida sided with Democrats to break a GOP filibuster on the small business bill. Remember when the GOP was all about reducing taxes, especially on small business? Yeah…neither do I.
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, […]
If the Republicans win back the House then they plan on letting us relive the bad part of the 90’s: If President Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if […]
Rep. Keith Ellison is unleashing at Robert Gibbs over his comments to The Hill. From The Huffington Post: Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), an active member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said Gibbs went too far. “This is not the first time that Mr. Gibbs has made untoward and inflammatory comments and I certainly hope that […]
I finally get a morning to sit here, drink some coffee and watch a little early news. I turn on Morning Joe and have heard one theme all morning – the White House fell for an edited video posted on the web by Andrew Breitbart. Joe Scarborough has been on fire blasting the White House […]
The Senate’s longest serving member, Robert Byrd, died this morning at the age of 92. This really isn’t a big shocker. Byrd’s health has been deteriorating for years and given his age, it was pretty much expected that this was coming after the news of his serious condition yesterday. As far as a replacement for […]
Joe Barton apologizing for BP has been the talk of the media and beltway for the past several days, but Barton wasn’t alone. He was just saying what a lot of prominent GOPers are thinking, such as Bill Kristol: Transcript via Think Progress: WALLACE: Question Bill Kristol, is the President standing up to big business […]
First we had some anonymous White House official blasting labor for supporting Bill Halter in the Arkansas Democratic Primary. Now we got some other senior Democrat doing the same. From Sam Stein: Another senior Democrat (who also would not be quoted by name) echoed the point in an exchange with the Huffington Post. “Labor is […]