Jon Ralston gets a hold of three new ads from the Nevada Senator’s re-election campaign:
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There’s a brief biographical aside in the second one, but for the most part, …
Ezra Klein has an interview with Sen. Lindsey Graham that explores Graham’s opposition to moving on immigration legislation before tackling a climate bill. As the piece’s title quote suggests, to an extent Graham comes off like a parent trying not to offend either of his difficult children. But it’s a fairly candid Q & A, and one worth …
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…or so most of my recent emails keep saying. So, why, then, did we name weepy paranoid-infotainer Glenn Beck to the Time 100? And more to the point, why did we have Her Know-nothingness Sarah Palin (Another honoree!) write about the wingnut blubber? Well, they are influential, which is all that matters here. And they deserve their due, …
Two days after Goldman Sachs execs were battered by a Senate subcommittee during a hearing into its role in the financial crisis, the New York Post reports the firm, which has vehemently denied the SEC’s fraud allegations, is moving toward a settlement in the case. From the Post’s story:
“It’s almost a certainty that there will be a
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Israel has apparently decided to take a page from the Diplomacy 101 handbook and slow-walk new housing developments in East Jerusalem, while maintaining its “right” to build them, according to Isabel Kershner in a New York Times piece that–arrgh!–I read yesterday but can’t seem to find on the Times website. An analysis today by Mark …
The deadtree cover this week is TIME’s annual 100 most influential people of the year. Who’d we miss? Who shouldn’t be on this list? Let the debate begin.
Update:
Even better: TIME’s least influential list. Hysterical.
Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images
–Charlie Crist is expected to announce he’s running as a no party affiliation candidate at an event in St. Petersburg this afternoon. There’s a lot of good analysis out there on what it means for the race; more on this later.
–Marc Ambinder reports Crist reached out to …
A conservative Democratic senator is a hold out, and possibly deciding vote, on pivotal legislation that tops the President’s agenda. He had a deal that benefits his Midwestern state, but it was taken out and now his attempts to put it back in and the substance of the deal itself is drumming up a bit of controversy. The Cornhusker …
Politico is reporting that Florida Governor Charlie Crist will continue his bid for Mel Martinez’s old Senate seat as an Independent. Rumors have swirled for days that Crist, who is losing in polls by double digits to former Florida Speaker of the House Marco Rubio for the GOP nomination, was considering an outside bid. The governor was …
I was just about to hit send on a post about how the Dems were rolling out cots for a forced all night session on financial regulatory reform when I got this email from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell:
“I appreciate the efforts of Sen. Shelby to work toward a bipartisan solution on an issue that will have an impact on nearly
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Here’s a story from me today about Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd and his push to get financial regulatory reform done. Dodd’s taken a pretty unique approach to this bill from the get-go, assigning bipartisan teams to hammer out deals on the most senstivie topics; working with Banking Committee ranking Republican and then …
This story is dominating the UK’s election coverage. TIME’s London Bureau Chief Catherine Mayer explains:
The first I heard of the gaffe that has inevitably and instantly been christened “bigotgate” was from an 85-year-old Labour party activist. “Have you heard about Gordon’s latest banana skin?” he asked, shaking his head,
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Incensed by Arizona’s stiff new immigration law, Rep. Raul Grijalva, the Democrat representing the state’s massive 7th district, took the unusual step of calling for a commercial boycott of his own state even before Gov. Jan Brewer signed the measure. Since then the boycott theme has gained traction, with lawmakers in Los Angeles and San …
