If you like the kind of comedy that makes you cringe as you’re watching someone train wreck their life, then this is the show for you. Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich hit the Daily Show last night. Here’s the interview.
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–As Jay noted, some of the nastiest primary fights of the season will come to a close today as voters in Florida, Vermont, Oklahoma, Arizona and Alaska head to the polls.
–Minority Leader Jon Boehner is delivering what’s billed as a “major address” on the economy this morning in Cleveland. On the menu: calls to extend …
The theme of this Tuesday’s primaries is: if you’re an incumbent and you love your base and you hug it close — really, really tightly — you might just win your party’s nomination. Though, some might argue that running so hard to the right (or the left) might be a Faustian bargain from which you risk never regaining your soul …
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–The White House thinks direct Israeli-Palestinian talks are a good way to undermine Hamas.
–Ethan Bronner sees skeptical observers and an air of resignation on both sides.
–Settlements remain a potential sticking point.
–Just back from Afghanistan, John Kerry sounds optimistic about chances for political …
–Israelis and Palestinians will talk.
–Joe Donnelly puts Nancy Pelosi in another ad.
–The DNC still puts W. in its ads.
–Jeb thinks that’s lame.
–Charlie Cook says the House will flip.
–Bill Clinton will have to save ’em all.
–Health care messaging gets retooled. (Here’s why.)
–Maes won’t go.
–The …
I have a story in this week’s dead tree edition out today looking at the seeming plethora of GOP women candidates this year. Yes, there are a lot of high profile races: Niki Haley, Sharron Angle, Linda McMahon, Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzlies.” And there have been a record number of Republican women who’ve run for federal office …
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–Prosecutors want another crack at Blago. They have until September 7 to file for a re-trial.
–Mitt Romney continues to stay out of the daily fray, throwing most of his strategic punches through op-eds. His offering in today’s BostonGlobe: Obama is anti-business.
–Mike Huckabee goes for a more …
If it’s a Tuesday it’s a primary day and today voters are heading to the polls in Washington and Wyoming.
Voting has been going on in Washington for two weeks already and it looks likely that former State Senator Dino Rossi will easily win his primary. But the race hasn’t left him totally unscathed. Rossi, who lost two very …
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–Rep. Jerry Nadler, who represents the district that would be home to the Manhattan mosque, spells out an argument many people seem to be missing:
As much as I respect the sensitivities of people, there is a fundamental mistake behind it, and that is how can you — and I can quote any number of some of the
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–The Washington Post profiles Elizabeth Warren. The timing may be good.
–Our colleague Michael Grunwald explores why Fed Chair Bernanke doesn’t have his foot on the monetary policy gas pedal.
–Worth re-posting: Scherer makes very good points about the Rangel case and Congress’s modus operandi.
–Carl Hulse writes porking …
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–As Jay notes, Obama political arm Organizing for America is trying to take some credit for Bennet’s solid victory last night in Colorado. The message: Just because we couldn’t save Specter or clear the field for Lincoln and Bennet, the White House political operation is not ineffectual.
–Establishment …
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–There are a bunch of good races today in Colorado, Connecticut and Georgia. Jay and Katy walk them up.
–The House is poised to approve $26 billion in aid to the states today. Obama will give a gentle nudge.
–Six months ago, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed onto a letter asking for more FMAP funds. He opposes …
Today’s Tuesday and that means voting. Colorado, Connecticut and Minnesota are holding primaries and Georgia’s GOP gubernatorial races holds a run off. By tonight we’ll know if another incumbent scalp, that of Colorado’s Michael Bennet, has been claimed or if the throw-the-bums-out mentality this cycle is abating somewhat. Here’s a …
