Nancy Pelosi tells reporters the Obama middle class tax cuts will happen in this Congress. Which, remember, doesn’t necessarily mean before the election; it means before the new Congress is sworn in in January. When asked whether the upper income cuts might get extended to … she punted.
The Vice President will campaign for the new Democratic Senate nominee Chris Coons back home in Delaware tomorrow, TPM has learned.
I don’t recall a long-shot like Christine O’Donnell arriving on the national stage so unknown but with such a long record of public statements on such a variety of issues. This morning we put together a list of her top 10 quotes, and it’s already outdated. Since then we’ve found this clip of O’Donnell on CSPAN in 1996 claiming not nearly enough attention was being paid to the “murder” of Vince Foster. Read More
So Rush Limbaugh, a bear and a taxidermist walk into a bar … or something like that.
The Cook Political Report moves the Connecticut Senate race between Richard Blumenthal (D) and Linda McMahon (R) from “Lean Democrat” to “Toss Up.”
Tea party primary wins are driving the Republican Party further to the right, away from the mainstream of America, and elevating candidates who are unelectable. Do Dems have the GOP right where they want it? Or is this, as The Daily Show suggests, the precise moment at which Democrats find a million ways to screw it all up? Watch.
Fox News and host Chris Wallace have filed suit against Robin Carnahan’s Missouri Senate campaign, alleging that the use of Fox footage in a Carnahan ad targeting her Republican opponent, Rep. Roy Blunt, violated the network’s copyright and misappropriated Wallace’s likeness.
As I mentioned last evening, we were trying to get more clarity about what power Elizabeth Warren would be able to wield in her new, yet-to-be-announced advisory position at Treasury. That has not been easy to do. The White House isn’t talking, and three of senators most involved in the passage of financial regulatory reform told us this morning that they have no idea what position Warren is reportedly being given or what it entails. Hill aides are also unclear whether the position that’s been described is intended to run the new consumer protection bureau or just help set it up, as the reports suggest. If this was a trial balloon, I’m not sure it was airworthy enough even to get off the ground.
We’ve put together a short reel splicing together Karl Rove’s election night trashing of Christine O’Donnell (“character problems”) to this morning’s eager hop on to the O’Donnell bandwagon (“everybody in their life sometimes has difficulties”). I was wondering how long Rove would hold out against the Rush smackdown (aka “hangtime”) and the answer was not long.