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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) threatened to hold a midnight vote yesterday to proceed to long-delayed legislation extending unemployment insurance for up to 20 weeks. That vote didn’t happen, but it might not have to. Reid’s office said this morning that party leaders “should be able” to reach agreement to skip that step and [...]

Five days after Mike Allen reported that friends of Fox News creator Roger Ailes wanted him to run for president, and four-and-a-half days since Ailes laughed the story off, the Ailes-for-president bubble–as ridiculous as it seems–is still serving as a way for conservatives to frame what they see as a White House “war on Fox.”

At the beginning of the month, with very little fanfare, Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas), a freshman member who holds Tom DeLay’s old seat, introduced H. Res 809 to honor James O’Keefe III and Hannah Giles, the young conservatives who filmed the ACORN sting that grabbed headlines last month.
So far, the resolution is lacking support. Only [...]

This morning, Michael Barone joined a number of American Enterprise Institute fellows for a briefing on the 2009 elections. One of the more interesting observations from Barone — the editor of the Almanac of American Politics and a writer for the Washington Examiner — was that potential 2012 GOP presidential candidates were making smart decisions [...]

The rallying of conservatives to Doug Hoffman’s dark horse campaign in the New York 23rd Congressional District special election is not slowing down. New allies for the Conservative Party candidate include the National Republican Trust, a hard-edged group best known for 11th hour Jeremiah Wright ads in the 2008 election, and the anti-illegal immigration Minuteman [...]

This afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) squared off on the chamber floor over how to proceed on legislation to extend unemployment benefits at least 14 weeks. Needless to say, they failed to reach an agreement, with McConnell rejecting Reid’s motion to scrap tomorrow’s cloture vote and move [...]

Eric Kleefeld has a great rundown of the Republican players who’ve taken sides in the New York 23rd Congressional District special election between GOP candidate and Dede Scozzafava and Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. The short version: elected Republicans are backing Scozzafava, while former officeholders and conservative groups are backing Hoffman.

Republican senators are pushing controversial immigration and banking amendments to the unemployment insurance measure.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) doubled down on his anti-ACORN activism at today’s Big Government press conference. Video below the jump.

Big Government’s Andrew Breitbart brought ACORN videographers James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles to the National Press Club this morning for the release of a video documenting the two young conservatives’ visit to the community organizing group’s office in Philadelphia.
The rollout was simultaneously tense and celebratory, with Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) [...]