NRCC

As former Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.) could tell you, a challenge in your own district is a heck of a thing to deal with while you’re running the NRCC.

Republicans have real bragging rights to the election results in Virginia and New Jersey. But I’m still struck by how the National Republican Congressional Committee spun last night’s two congressional races by talking about the governor’s races, not NY-23 and CA-10. In California, a lot of conservatives saw an opportunity to beat a carpetbagging Democrat [...]

WATERTOWN, N.Y. — On a Sunday evening conference call with conservative bloggers — where he was joined by former Dede Scozzafava campaign manager Matt Burns — Rob Ryan, spokesman for NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, said that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani had recorded a robocall for the campaign. That makes Giuliani one [...]

The candidates share a rationale: if any Democrats deserve to lose next year, it will be the powerful committee chairmen who are shepherding the party’s agenda through Congress.

Sean Duffy, the leading Republican candidate challenging Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), will report a fundraising total of $140,000, with $120,000 cash on hand, for the third quarter of 2009. I talked with the candidate today, keying off NRCC Chairman and Rep. Pete Sessions’s (R-Texas) prediction that Obey — who is seeking a 21st term in [...]

From the DCCC’s Jennifer Crider, blasting the NRCC for tweeting a “Downfall” parody video of Adolf Hitler making common cause with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.):
Republican Leader John Boehner should order NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions to immediately remove this vile Tweet and apologize.
A strange story on what is not turning out to be a slow [...]

Politico has a double-bylined take-out of the conservative movement’s rebellion against Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, the liberal Republican nominated for the open NY-23 House seat. Lots of great details on how the right, locally and in Washington, is manning battle stations for Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, including a memo from the Conservative Party’s Mike Long [...]

A terrifying headline from the NRCC, blasting Rep. Harry Teague (D-N.M.):
Harry Teague Stumps for Change He Doesn’t Believe In: Teague Dismissed Climate Change but Fundraises With Radical Global Warming Activist
The “radical global warming activist” is … Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics. Too bad. I was hoping for [...]

Rep. Parker Griffith’s (D-Ala.) comment that he wouldn’t support Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in another vote for Speaker of the House has been manna for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is sending around this sample pledge to targeted Democrats. This one’s for Griffith’s colleague, Rep. Bobby Bright (D-Ala.).
The Pelosi Pledge
Whereas Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues [...]

Hastings Wyman has a good piece up at the Southern Political Report, talking to Oklahoma strategists about the NRCC’s eyebrow-raising inclusion of Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.) on their target list. The five Republicans who’ve thrown their hats into the ring present basically no threat to Boren; one is a law student at Drexel, one’s a [...]