Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell weighed in Monday on the Obama campaign’s Bain Capital attacks and, alas, another would-be Obama surrogate bit the dust. “I think they’re very disappointing,” Rendell told Buzzfeed about the negative ads by Chicago. “I think Bain is fair game, because Romney has made it fair game. But I think how you …
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The Pennsylvania Senate Race: Will Specter Survive (Again)?
In the new issue of dead-tree TIME, I take a look at what, for my money, is the most fascinating Senate race in 2010. I hope you’ll read the whole story here. (Or, even better, in the magazine.) It explores the race in the context of how much has changed in politics since Arlen Specter made his leap to the Democratic Party last …
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Home Again
…after 10 days in the Middle East and watching the Sunday morning talk shows. A few thoughts:
–It certainly was fun watching Governors Schwarzenegger and Rendell carve into pieces the puerile speeches delivered at the CPAC convention. The bites from Mitt Romney–who said not one net new private sector job had been created by the …
Doris Kearns Goodwin: “Let Them Filibuster.”
It’s been quite a week for my Make Them Filibuster campaign. Two high-profile endorsements! First, Governor Ed Rendell and now historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Here’s what she told Jon Stewart last night on the Daily Show:
Let them filibuster. You realize how great they’re going to look, these Republicans, trying not to go to
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Rendell: “Make Them Filibuster”
My favorite cause seems to have picked up a new spokesman: Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell.
We’ll see if the Little Girls of the United States Senate pay him any more attention than they have me. (In addition to the two links above, you can read more of my earlier arguments on this subject here, and here.)
