Now this is interesting, although it’s not entirely clear to me what the implications are or will be. According to an upcoming survey from Public Policy Polling, a majority of those planning to vote for Gov. Charlie Crist for U.S. Senate in Florida think that if he wins election he should caucus with the Democrats.
My first reaction to that number was that it puts Crist in quite a bind if he wins. But that may be getting ahead of ourselves because what this finding is actually showing is more evidence that Crist has become the de facto Democratic nominee since he left the Republican Party to run as an independent. So yes, at some point down the road, Crist may have some tricky decisions to make if he wins. But the more immediate effect is on the eventual Democratic nominee — whether it be Kendrick Meek or Jeff Greene — who are clearly losing Democrats to Crist in a big way.
We told you last week about two GOP congressmen directly lobbying the UN missions of foreign countries — including some that criminalize homosexuality — to oppose a U.S. push to give accreditation to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Well, today, the group finally received its UN seal of approval.
We look into Mark Williams of the Tea Party Express and his chronic case of accidental racism.
The first place you’d expect Sharia law to gain a foothold would be … Tennessee. With that in mind, the Republican candidates in the primary for the TN-06 House seat are scrambling to see who can come out strongest against construction of a mosque in Murfreesboro.
Actually, whether it’s a “mosque” is at issue, too. “This isn’t a mosque,” the campaign manager for one of the candidates tells TPM. “They’re building an Islamic center to teach Sharia law. That is what we stand in opposition to. And this is one of the largest Islamic centers in the country, at 53,000 square feet on 15 acres.”
Someone on the GOP side now figuring out that making 2010 a referendum on George W. Bush may not be the strongest play Republicans can make this year? The NRCC denies that its chairman, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), was calling for a return to Bush economic policies.
Mother of man involved in shootout with police yesterday on an Oakland freeway: My son was upset with “the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items.”
That birther Army doctor being court-martialed for refusing to obey a lawful deployment order on the grounds that Obama isn’t legally qualified to be President releases a new video in which he laments the failure of his attempt to make the court-martial proceeding into a trial of whether Obama is a natural born U.S. citizen.
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) endured 10 minutes of live air time on Fox News — without facing a single question about his new primary opponent or about his former woman-abusing aide who handled women’s issues for Vitter.
Another prime example of a leading Republican wanting to turn 2010 into a referendum on George W. Bush. See other examples? Pass them our way.