Ben Smith at Politico just posted this: Washington Post Communications Director Kris Coratti emails: “Dave offered his resignation and we accepted it.” That’s following yesterday’s drama where Weigel apparently aired some frustrations regarding some right wing media types on a mailing list: FishbowlDC has obtained e-mails written by WaPo‘s conservative-beat blogger Dave Weigel, that the […]
Rep. Parker Griffith (D-AL-5) is expected to announce today that he is switching from Democrat to Republican: According to a senior GOP aide familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place in this afternoon in his home district in northern Alabama. Griffith’s party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal congressional health care […]
That would be Charlie Crist: Governor Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio are now tied in the 2010 race for the Republican Senate nomination in Florida. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely GOP Primary voters finds Crist and Rubio each with 43% of the vote. Five percent (5%) prefer another […]
I been reading through a lot of reactions to Arlen Specter’s party switch yesterday, and one quote stuck out at me: The Republican Party was founded as a party of individual rights and individual initiative. It led the fight to end slavery, give women the right to vote, expand national parks and break up corporate […]