Evan McMorris-Santoro’s report on last evening’s DC protest against Wisconsin state Republicans.
Our Evan McMorris-Santoro emails in that pro-union protestors have taken over the lobby of the building of lobbying powerhouse BGR in downtown DC which is hosting a fundraiser for Wisconsin state Republicans.
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA): “General Petraeus is giving us the Charlie Sheen counter-insurgency strategy, which is to give exclusive interviews to every major network, and to keep saying ‘we’re winning’ and hope the public actually agrees with you.”
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) to FBI Director Robert Mueller: “How is your outreach going with the Baptists or the Catholics?”
Believe it or not, a Draft Michele Bachmann Movement is actually taking shape.
French stock is rising rapidly within the Republican party. John Boehner has just announced that the US should be more like France on nuclear power and Sen. Lindsey Graham says the US should man up and be more like France on no-fly-zones.
First Wisconsin, now Michigan. In response to a genuine budgetary crisis, state Republicans have passed a new law which would allow the governor to appoint emergency managers to void union contracts and even dissolve local jurisdictions. Here’s our report.
Freshman Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) was looking like he had a precarious hold on his seat going into his first reelection contest next Fall. But the current battle in the state over collecting bargaining rights has boosted his numbers dramatically.