Democratic organizations and candidates are starting to strike back against Americans for Prosperity’s $4.1 million ad buy attacking nearly two dozen Dems in 11 states. Although the ads would likely have been permitted even in a pre-Citizens United world, Democrats are arguing that they’re a part of a new, More…
It’s a day of nuclear-strength oppo hits on Dan Coats, the former Indiana senator who’s running for his old job against Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.). The ugliest comes in the form of his work on behalf of Harvest Natural Resources. Why does that matter?
In 2007, when Coats’ firm
That’s the warning coming today from the folks at the Center for Public Integrity, who caution that the recent High Court decision empowering corporations to spend unlimited sums on federal election ads could also have the unintended consequence of ending the ban on foreigners buying influence More…
It seems that every time President Obama gives a major speech — up to and including his announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan — pundits and observers call it his “best speech yet.” But that streak appears to have come to an end today as negative reviews of his More…
This is a deeply strange story, ably picked apart by the smart conservative blogger Ed Morrissey. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has been making the rounds today claiming that the climate bill includes a provision that — in the words of the Washington Examiner — “requires President Obama More…
Benjamin Hartman of Ha’aretz conducted a strange, semi-credulous interview with birther/fraudster Orly Taitz, who’s in Israel for a month, and rather disappointed that the birther “phenomenon” has faded, “largely supplanted by the debate over health care.” Hartman buries the lede:
In a classic, Americana twist, the matriarch of the
Mark Goldberg identifies the Republicans who are supporting the coup in Honduras, the second break with President Obama’s foreign policy in less than a month.
Florida Republican Connie Mack is circulating a congressional resolution that effectively supports the coup. So far, the Congressional Coup Caucus includes Dan Burton (Republican
I’m looking back through the transcripts of the April 22 floor speeches that Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) and a number of Republican colleagues gave about the Department of Homeland Security’s assessment on “right-wing extremism.” Carter demanded the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, comparing the report to the Clinton More…
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