Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says “I feel disappointment in myself” over the events leading to the US Attorney firing scandal.
With Chrysler paying back its $7.6 billion federal loan six years early, Democrats are taking the opportunity to demand an apology from Republicans who bashed the deal as a waste. And they’re taking particular aim at Mitt Romney over his 2008 NYT Oped: “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.”
ABC News is reporting that the Justice Department has given prosecutors the go ahead to indict former Sen. John Edwards (D).
DNC Chair cites Newt as authority on “radical” nature of Ryan Medicare Phase Out plan in celebrating NY-26 victory.
From our just published story on the role of Medicare in the NY-26 special …
Republicans are going to have plenty of questions about their plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program tomorrow morning after Democrats romped to an improbable victory in a special election focused almost entirely on the issue.
Read the rest here.
10:04 PM: Just after 10 PM, AP calls it for Hochul.
10:07 PM: Couple key points to note in these results. First, as noted below, the Democrat matched the 2006 margin in this district. And 2006 was a huge wave election for the Dems. The margin appears to be 6 points, though that my change a little. That means that Davis — the one-time Republican, then Democrat and now Tea Partier — took a margin that just wasn’t enough to swing the race. Given Davis’s idiosyncratic politics and the fact he most recently ran as a Dem there’s no plausible way to argue that his vote would have broke strongly enough in Corwin’s direction to give her the win. The bottom line is that the Dem won — no way to explain it away.
10:11 PM: Ryanmentum.