For months Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio slugged it out in Florida’s Republican Senate primary, trading jabs in the press, on the trail, in TV ads; they even had a nationally televised debate on Fox. One of the earliest and nastiest primary battles of the cycle came to a premature close in April when Crist, [...]
Newt Gingrich is clearly running for President. How do I know? He gets dumb and angry when running for office. When not running for office, he’ll take the occasional independent stand–in opposition to the teaching of creationism in science class (it’s ok to teach it as a “philosophy” in a non-science setting, he has said) [...]
Tomorrow former Ways & Means chairman Charlie Rangel is scheduled to be put on trial but the House ethics committee. The hearing could last months, going well into the fall as Rangel tries to prove his innocence, even through a subcommittee has already ruled he likely broke House rules. The AP and New York Post [...]
It keeps getting better. First we have this ad from Florida, which as Jonathan Martin points out, asks a crucial question for the electorate: Does Florida want to elect a Senator who doesn’t wear collar stays? But that’s nothing compared to the wormy chocolate, don’t-vote-for-my-dad attack. Oklahoma’s KFOR has the story: To read about the [...]
Rep. Jim Langevin (above), a Rhode Island Democrat, today became the first person in a wheelchair to preside over the House. The occasion, made possible by a series of mechanical lifts recently installed in the Speaker’s rostrum, marked the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Langevin was accidentally shot in the chest at [...]
From the White House Flickr feed:
When White House aides walk into the Situation Room, they are asked to leave their Blackberries and cell phones outside. The same is true for sensitive meetings in the Roosevelt Room, and dozens of other locations in and around the White House where classified business is conducted. So one would assume that soldiers in Iraq [...]
Since George Allen’s infamous utterance of the word macaca, any statewide campaign or Party that can afford it has sent minions to tail their opposition in the hopes of replicating that scandal. Sometimes these moments have an impact, sometimes they don’t: Trey Grayson’s video trove of Rand Paul slip ups did little to slow Paul’s [...]
