Another one out. Last night Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) announced he will not be running for president in 2012. Daniels official statement after the jump … Read More
The special election for New York’s 26th district is this Tuesday. And the latest poll has Democrat Kathy Hochul taking a lead over Republican Jane Corwin by 4 points among likely voters.
Hochul 42%, Corwin 38%, Davis 9%, Murphy 1%.
Key point. Hochul has jumped 11 points since the last poll, pretty much all from Davis. So the Tea Party candidate is faltering and his support is swinging overwhelmingly to Hochul.
For years the top generals in the IDF have agreed that Israel can handle withdrawing to the 1967 borders in military terms. But PM Netanyahu says that’s impossible because those borders are not defensible. It’s an amazing level of denial, intransigence and self-destructiveness on display today — something the pre-statehood and early statehood Zionist leadership was seldom so vulnerable to. Read More
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA): When I said last week that I was going to vote for the House GOP’s plan to abolish Medicare what I really meant was I was going to vote on it — and I have no idea yet which way I’m going to vote.
John Lithgow gives a dramatic reading of Newt Gingrich’s epic poem of a press release on Colbert’s show. Greatest thing ever: Watch.
Newt to Limbaugh: Hey, you know all that trouble I got myself in for calling the Paul Ryan’s budget “right-wing engineering”? Funny thing is I wasn’t even referring to Paul Ryan!
Limbaugh to Newt: “Well then what did you apologize to him about?”
Cornyn blames Dems for GOP’s successful filibuster of Goodwin Liu.
“The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skills can persuade it to do otherwise.” —Mark Twain
Relying primarily on the comment of one New York financier made to the Wall Street Journal, Republicans have begun floating the notion that if the failure to raise the debt ceiling means the U.S. government misses a few interest payments on its debts, it won’t be that big of a deal. So we checked in with the ratings agencies to see what they thought of this. Short answer: It would be a BFD.