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The New York Times reports that Republican Bob McDonnell rode to an easy victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race Tuesday, based on exit polls.

Last week, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) threatened a Republican boycott of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s markup of the Kerry-Boxer climate bill. Well, we’re not quite at the markup stage yet, but it seems that Inhofe and his colleagues are already making good on their threat.

While most GOP lawmakers are opposing legislation to tighten government regulations over the tobacco industry, one outspoken Republican is making statements not often heard from even the most liberal members of Congress. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is pushing an outright tobacco ban. From The Hill:
“What we should be doing is banning tobacco,” Coburn said in [...]

Craig Shirley, the Republican political strategist who wrote a fine book about Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign, is probably the most red meat conservative writer for Politico’s “Arena” of short takes on the news. His take on President Obama’s trip to the Middle East:

And now there arose a new Pharaoh, who knew not Reagan.

That’s the [...]

Just two weeks ago, Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who’s trying to replace retiring Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), signed a pledge promising not to raise taxes.
Yesterday he signed a budget that did just that.

As the ideologically charged debate revs up over the qualifications of  Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s newly announced pick to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court, Senate Republicans have thus far approached cautiously, vowing a fair examination of her record and asking Democrats for substantial time to conduct it.
But as Greg Sargent points [...]

World magazine reports that Lynn Vincent, the Catholic publication’s features editor, will co-write Sarah Palin’s memoirs. I’m familiar with Vincent’s work from her collaboration with conservative reporter Robert Stacy McCain on the 2006 muckraking tome “Donkey Cons.” It was an uncomplicated book, its thesis being that if you compared the number of Democrats who’d committed [...]

Tom Ross, the chairman of the Republican Party of Delaware, told me after the Republican National Committee state chairmen’s meeting that Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) is probably going to opt for a U.S. Senate campaign in 2010.
“He spoke at our state convention,” said Ross, “and the audience was full of homemade ‘Castle for Senate’ stickers. [...]

The headline of a just-released Senate Republican Policy Committee document on what to do with Guantanamo Bay detainees:
Meet Your New Neighbor, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad?
There’s actually nothing in the 15-page paper suggesting that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad could be released into American society. There is, however, an exposition of the problem of the 17 Uighur detainees who [...]

Florida-based Ron Sachs Communications is out with a poll of the state’s U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, showing Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) is the early leader for the open Senate seat and Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum narrowly ahead in the race to replace Crist.
Crist leads former state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R) by 35 [...]