With his prospect of winning the 23rd Congressional District race now almost zero, Conservative Party candidate Douglas L. Hoffman suggested Wednesday in a letter that "ACORN, the unions and the Democratic Party" "tampered" with results to deny him victory.
You've got to read the letter to believe' [...]
Since the stimulus bill did none of the things that J.M Keynes said it should do; timely, temporary, and of sufficient size (I suggest that the failure of the first two criteria nullify the last) the Dems are busy trying to replicate the mistake.
House Democrats are moving quickly to [...]
First, Democrats struck a deal over healthcare to win the support of Catholic bishops by allowing an amendment to reach the House floor that would disallow any insurance passed in the health insurance exchange to [...]
Montana Rep. Dennis Rehberg met with Republican recruiters about a 2012 Senate run against Democrat Jon Tester on Thursday.
Rehberg, who was seen exiting the National Republican Senatorial Committee's Capitol Hill headquarters Thursday morning, is the state's lone representative in the House.
There's mutual interest between [...]
[John] notes that the health care reform bill emerging now in the U.S House terminates the Children's Health Insurance Program in four years.
The $894 billion, 1,990-page health reform bill unveiled by House Democrats last Thursday would repeal CHIP at the end of 2013, shifting millions [...]
The esteemed John Cole:
It has now been about 36 hours since the most definitive victory for conservatism ever, yet according to my sources, Obama is still President, the Senate still has 60 Democrats, and the House gained a Democrat.
I guess you have to live in the beltway or work for a cable network [...]
Ah, so who's the sole Democrat that voted against the legislation?
Max Baucus.
Not [...]
GOPers are celebrating and predicting 2010 gains while Dems are largely dismissing the results as unimportant losses based on local factors. I think it's somewhere in between.
As most Democrats point out, these elections aren't always the best indicators of what will happen a year from now. A year is a [...]
At first blush, the answer is 'yes,' of course. You then recite the litany of reasons. Rehberg evil. Me [...]
Political junkies know by now that in the race for Congress in New York’s 23th congressional district, the liberal Republican candidate, Dierdre Scozzafava has dropped out of the race and endorsed the Democrat over the Conservative Party candidate, Doug Hoffman. She had been running third in the polls.
The mainstream [...]
Is the dissatisfaction because Congressional Democrats are less responsive to their base?
In a second post, [...]
The Pew Research Center has published a poll showing the awareness of issues in the public realm. Here is a breakout by Republicans, Independents and Democrats:Speaking at the start of an Environment and Public Works Committee hearing where he is the [...]
