Dede Scozzafava, the moderate GOP candidate in the race to represent upstate New York’s 23rd congressional district, suspended her campaign in the wake of yet another poll showing her in third place. The poll, from Siena College, showed Scozzafava with just 20% of the vote, compared to Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman with 35% and Democratic [...]
All the best news drops late on a Friday night. And so the White House has released a batch of White House visitor logs–a very partial list–with lots of juicy tidbits, like: –George Soros came to chat with Larry Summers. –Democratic Lobbyist Mega-Couple Tony and Heather Podesta have been to the White House a total [...]
Brooks Kraft forwards this photo as grist for our regular 1,000 Words feature: The actual caption:
The current race for the congressional seat in my home district – New York’s 23rd – is being billed as a test case for the future of the Republican Party. The Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman appears to be pulling even or ahead of his opponents – GOP establishment candidate Dede Scozzafava and Bill Owens, running [...]
Jay is right; the leak itself is a bad thing. But can I just say there is some terrific news in here? The Ethics Committee is doing its job! As you might recall, that was not the case all that long ago. UPDATE: I just chatted with Fred Wertheimer, president and founder of the watchdog [...]
It’s safe to say that Thursday was an eminently bad day for Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat. Lofgren, chair of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, thought much of the news cycle that day would revolve around a 20-page report clearing Rep. Sam Graves, a Missouri Republican who had been referred to [...]
More evidence that a Daily Show’s little left toe is more compelling than all the YouTube muscle at Media Matters. A Fox take down for the ages:
would actually be higher on average than those charged by private companies participating in the new health insurances exchanges. At least, that is the surprising conclusion of the Congressional Budget Office, which Politco’s Carrie Budoff Brown found in its assessment of the new House bill.:
As I noted earlier, the real surprise in the House health care bill wasn’t the public plan–we had pretty much known for days that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn’t have the votes to pass her preferred version, the so-called “robust” public plan, which would have closely tied its reimbursements to health care providers to Medicare’s [...]
In his book, The Populist Persuasion, Michael Kazin defines populism this way: a language whose speakers conceive of ordinary people as a noble assemblage not bounded narrowly by class, view their elite opponents as self-serving and undemocratic, and seek to mobilize the former against the latter. America has, of course, been rife with this stuff [...]
