If there is any silver lining to the Democrats losing the House last night, it is this: In a fell swoop, the once-powerful Blue Dog caucus of conservative House Democrats was reduced from 54 members to 26 in Tuesday’s midterm election. The caucus lost two members to retirement and two others who ran for higher […]
Yesterday Bill Clinton gave some advice to President Obama on his next pick for the Supreme Court: S”But it’s not predictable. I’d like to see him put someone in there, late 40s, early 50s, on the court and someone with a lot of energy for the job.” Clinton said his wife would be “great” at […]
The retirement of Justice Stevens is really not good news for those of us on the left: The leading prospects — U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan and federal appellate judges Merrick Garland and Diane Wood — are relative moderates. Kagan has backed strong presidential authority over national security; rulings by Garland and Wood suggest they […]
The networks are now reporting that Bart Stupak will announce his retirement from Congress today. God knows we won’t miss him and it would be a good time to give to Connie Saltonsall, who is a true progressive running for Stupak’s seat.
CBS is seeing the signs that Justice Stevens term in the Supreme Court could be coming to an end: Justice John Paul Stevens has left some clues he’s planning to retire this year, shortly after he turns 90 years old. He’s only hired one law clerk for next term, for example, and not the four […]
Well that was quick: Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he will seek to succeed fellow Democrat Christopher Dodd in the U.S. Senate. Blumenthal tells The Associated Press that he will announce his candidacy at noon Wednesday at Democratic headquarters in Hartford. This really softens the blow of Dorgan’s announced retirement last night. With Dodd […]
Wow they are dropping like flies today: Embattled Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd (D) has scheduled a press conference at his home in Connecticut Wednesday at which he is expected to announce he will not seek re-election, according to sources familiar with his plans. Dodd’s retirement comes after months of speculation about his political future, and […]
I’m sure the right is outraged over Supreme Court Justice David Souter announcing his retirement only a few months into a Democratic administration. They probably view it as the final deception by the George H.W. Bush choice who turned out to be more to the left than right. Now we get the media frenzy over […]
Time for a break from politics and a turn to my other love – cycling: Lance Armstrong made a cautious return to professional cycling Sunday, finishing well back in a 30-mile criterium in downtown Adelaide. More than 138,000 people turned out to see Armstrong return from three years in retirement and begin a campaign to […]
That’s what the McCain campaign has been doing and the proof is in their ads. The AP has done a study on this: MADISON, Wis. – Nearly every TV ad Republican John McCain ran last week was negative, compared to just 34 percent of those by Democrat Barack Obama, according to an analysis released Wednesday. […]