Bob Schieffer of CBS says that’s what sources are telling him privately about tomorrow’s Pennsylvania Senate primary. (Via Greg Sargent.)
“In all candor, I have been told on background and so forth that the White House is preparing for a Specter loss here, and that the president doesn’t want to be associated with that,” the network’s …
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The adage is: if you’re not winning against a guerrilla insurgency, you’re losing. We’re not winning in Afghanistan. And our performance in Marja isn’t helping any. Indeed, it hurts in several ways detailed in this excellent NY Times piece:
Last week, Pat Buchanan did what Pat Buchanan tends to do: He penned another muscular defense of the White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, that oppressed affinity group that is beset on all sides by more colorful and confusing races and religions. (If you missed it, you can still buy Buchanan’s 2001 book, Death of the West: How Dying …
Peter Beinart, writing in the New York Review of Books, has an essay that gets at the heart of the challenge facing groups like Young Judea, Birthright Israel and AIPAC. Zionism in America is on the wane, and this decline is most sharply evident among American Jews under the age of 35. Beinart argues that this decline is a moral one, not …
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–With all eyes turning to Tuesday’s primaries, a Halter-Lincoln runoff looks likely in Arkansas, Rand Paul is crushing in Kentucky, and the Sestak-Specter contest is shaping up to be a squeaker.
—Nate Silver looks at how anti-establishment candidates may fare in general elections, …
For more than a week, I’ve been wondering why Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd and that committee’s top Republican Ricahrd Shelby haven’t introduced their managers’ amendment, the final piece that will allow financial regulatory reform to pass the Senate. The bill was scheduled to be finished, after all, at the end of …
Britain has a new Prime Minister, Conservative David Cameron, and it may be years until the Labour Party gains back power, but that doesn’t make the struggle to replace Gordon Brown at its helm any less interesting, especially when that struggle is between two brothers: David and Ed Miliband. TIME’s London Bureau Chief Catherine Mayer …
Michael and Jay join me for this week’s podcast. Check it out:
Today, the National Federation of Independent Business joined the states suing the federal government on the grounds that federal health reform is unconstitutional. Wow – this ups the ante, right?
Politico seems to think so, saying its daily health care alert this morning:
…politically and symbolically, it could make the
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This morning Sarah Palin was billed to give a speech for the Susan B. Anthony List’s anti-abortion breakfast (an event that seemed somehow less appetizing than a pro-life lunch). About 550 people, who each paid $150 for a seat, first heard the SBA president talk about how the group will fight to get anti-abortion politicians elected come …
In a Rasmussen poll taken last month, just 11% of voters surveyed said they thought Congress was doing a good job. A March NBC/Wall Street Journal poll — held a few days before the health-care bill’s passage — found that 17% of voters supported the performance of the legislative branch. A full 50% of voters in that poll said they’d …
“The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.”
-Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, during an interview with the Guardian
President Obama blasted oil company executives today for ducking responsibility for the spill still gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico. “I did not appreciate what I considered to be a ridiculous spectacle,” Obama said of the Congressional hearings this week. He unloading on the chiefs of BP, Transocean and Halliburton for “falling …
