Some rare good news in the Senate: Sen. Olympia Snowe, the Maine Republican who this week said she would not run for reelection, joined nearly all Democrats in a 51-48 vote to dispense of the amendment, which would have allowed employers to decline to cover certain health benefits that conflict with their religious beliefs. Sen. …
Archives for March 2012
Getting to know Mitt Romney, whether he likes it or not
I went to a Meet The Candidates event near here night before last: Angela Zimmann was there. She’s running against Bob Latta for the US House. John Vanover was there, I’ve mentioned him frequently here before, he’s the brave person who stepped up to run against an entrenched, well-funded culture warrior Republican for a seat …
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Breitbart Still At the Front of the Noise Machine
Via NYMag‘s Daily Intel, Gawker does the first round-up of conspiracy theories about his death: …”They killed Breitbart? Natural causes? What was natural cause? They use cancer to kill a lot of people. Ruby for one, Aaron Russo 4 another”… __ “Andrew Breitbart was going to expose Barry’s colledge “issues” and now he’s dead. The …
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
I just got off the phone with Bob Casey’s office to pass on how I feel about his insane decision to vote for the Blunt amendment. I suggest that anyone else here from PA do the same. Utterly inexplicable. Pennsylvania is socially conservative relative to its Democratic-tilted party politics, but I would be astonished to …
Open Thread: BoBo {Hearts} Lugar, But…
According to the Media Village, it is supposed to be very poignant about Dick Lugar, the “Longest-serving Senate Republican in fight of his life“. In a report from home ground, Doghouse Riley explains for David “Possum” Brooks, why the withers of at least one of Lugar’s constituents remain unwrung: … Fifty-some years in politics and …
Mitt Romney Starring In “Wormhole X-Treme!”
Moving on. E.J. Dionne makes the excellent case that Rick Santorum’s reckless social extremism is giving Mitt Romney cover for Romney’s own (even worse) reckless economic extremism. Just because Romney isn’t running around spouting brimstone doesn’t mean he’s any less dangerous for the country, either. And the candidate who says that he’ll eliminate the deficit …
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Andrew Breitbart Dead
ABC News reporting that LA Coroner’s office says he died shortly after midnight last night of natural causes. Condolences to his family. Open thread. Adding, “If you don’t have anything nice to say about the deceased…” as they say. Also, treat his death better than Andrew Breitbart treated Ted Kennedy’s death, at least.