The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Who Is Jon Scott Ashjian?

We know that he owes $200,000 in back taxes. We know that his “Tea Party” candidacy is Harry Reid’s only hope for re-election. There are many questions being asked in Nevada: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is facing Republican accusations that he’s behind the emergence of a third-party Tea Party candidate on the ballot who […]

How Bad Is It for Charlie Crist?

“At this point, it doesn’t look like he could win a Republican Primary for Dog Catcher.” — Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling Kind of a nice plan you had there, Mr. Crist. All you had to do was to embrace Obama and get John Cornyn’s big money boys at the NRSC lined up […]

Yglesias Is As Unimpressive As Brooks

by Smitty Here is Matthew Yglesias at Think Knucklehead arguing against Judd Gregg. Yglesias, whose literacy seems challenged, appears to misread deliberately what he quoted from Gregg: The Senate was structured to be the place where bills which rushed through the House because they have a lot of rules that limit debate and allow people […]

Charlie Crist Is Not Scum

Charlie Crist is the bacteria that infect the parasites which feed on the pus that oozes from the maggots which crawl through the slime that grows on scum.

Obama Still Trying to ‘Do a Chicago’ in Push for Health-Care Bill (UPDATED)

Threatening “reconcilliation” to muscle Senate Republicans: White House officials tell ABC News that in his remarks [today] President Obama will indicate a willingness to work with Republicans on some issue to get a health care reform bill passed but will suggest that if it is necessary, Democrats will use the controversial “reconciliation” rules requiring only […]

Oh, Great: Senate Plans to Entrust U.S. Financial System to Federal Reserve?

The kind of economic insanity only Chris Dodd could concoct: Key members of the Senate Banking Committee, after months of negotiations, are expected to unveil their proposal within the next week, people familiar with the negotiations said. While the sources cautioned that no agreement has been reached, the lawmakers, led by the panel’s chairman, Sen. […]

How Doomed Is Charlie Crist?

Even Salon.com has noticed that Charlie is toast: In February 2009, Crist embraced, both figuratively and literally, President Barack Obama when Obama came to Florida to tout the economic stimulus package that had not yet become law. At the time, both Obama’s and Crist’s favorability ratings were high in Florida. . . . Crist’s opponents […]

Getting Re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano May Have Gone to Mickey Kaus’s Head

He’s running against Barbara Boxer in the Democratic primary: Pioneering political blogger Mickey Kaus took out papers filed to run for U.S. Senate in California, he told LA Weekly. The Venice resident said he’ll run this year against Barbara Boxer for her seat. He said he took out filed papers at with the Los Angeles […]

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