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Strike Two for Cornyn
Following up on the news of Sen. Kit Bond’s (R-Mo.) retirement — that’s two Senate seats in one week for which the GOP has lost its preferred candidate. The first was Florida, now wide-open (possibly even leaning Democratic) with former Gov. Jeb Bush out of the race.
Perhaps Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the chairman of the [...]
Missouri’s Kit Bond Throws a Senate Seat Into Play
Bad news for Republicans is trickling out of Missouri, where Kit Bond, the four-term Republican senator, is retiring. What would have been a relatively safe seat in 2010, in a state McCain narrowly carried (with less than 50% of the vote), will now be open.
Bond is one of only two statewide Republican officials, the other [...]
Stand Up! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is launching a new political action committee, Country First, replacing the storied Straight Talk America PAC that was folded into his presidential campaign.
Michael O’Brien has the scoop:
The new PAC, headquartered in Alexandria, Va., lists Keith Davis, a New Jersey-based local Republican official.
McCain will publicly announce the PAC’s formation today, CNN reported, [...]
Hah! I Totally Blocked Your Fist With My Face!
This Benjamin Sarlin piece on right-wing delight at Al Franken’s Senate win in Minnesota is … strange.
“Al Franken is a very tempting target because he is so outrageous,” said Republican strategist Brad Blakeman. “It’s similar to Joe Biden—we hope that Al Franken is the gift that keeps on giving.”
We’re talking about Vice President-in-two-weeks Joe Biden, [...]
Study: Virginity Pledges Don’t Work
Confirming what many have been saying for years, a new survey finds that teenagers who pledge to forgo sexual activity until marriage were just as likely to engage in premarital sex as those who do not. Adolescents who take the pledge are also less likely than their peers to use birth control or condoms when [...]
Michigan and Ohio: Swing States No More?
Another good point made by TWI’s Daphne Eviatar and Josh Marshall, who sums it up well. From TPM:
Senate Republicans are following this course for three key reasons — first is payback against a major industrial union; second is payback against states like Michigan and Ohio who have been moving away from the GOP; third is [...]
Bring Boring Back
In the wake of the Senate’s failure to pass the bailout for the “Big Three” automakers due to a threatened Republican filibuster, I’d like to expand on an excellent point made by Josh Marshall over at TPM.
What I do think makes sense is for the majority to actually require the minority to filibuster — as [...]
Obama Pledges Details on Staff Meetings with Governor’s Office
During a press conference this morning in Chicago, ostensibly to officially name former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) as President-elect Barack Obama’s pick for secretary of health and human services and director of the White House office of health reform, Obama found himself talking mostly about the scandal surrounding Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
When [...]
Stevens Convicted on All Counts
Long-time Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens (R) was convicted Monday on all seven charges of providing false statements on financial disclosure forms. The seven-term senator was charged with accepting $250,000 worth of gifts — including extensive renovations on his home — from a friendly oil executive. Stevens had argued that he was unaware that he hadn’t [...]
White House: Bush Voted for McCain
On Friday, I noted how the Obama campaign was happily circulating an Associated Press article reporting that President George W. Bush, in a break with tradition, would not vote on camera this Election Day.
