The post-Palin Alaska GOP seems to be a in a wild west sort of way …
From the Alaska Dispatch …
With the Alaska GOP set to meet Monday evening to decide the fate of party chairwoman Debbie Brown of Kasilof, she has seized the Republican headquarters in Anchorage and is threatening to arrest anyone who tries to enter the building.
TPM Reader JK thinks there’s a logic to the thinking, as long as you focus on members of Congress …
I agree with you [see earlier post] that Republican politicians who are thinking about running for President need to have the GOP engage on the issue of immigration reform, but for Republicans in the House and Senate, I don’t see that need as much. It wasn’t the 2010 election that resulted in the GOP hysteria about Latino voters, it was the presidential election of 2012.
Did anyone know there was a made-for-TV movie made about that Dr. Ben Carson guy back in 2009?
Amazingly, when Republicans push budgets to cut a lot of services and only have middle class people pay taxes it just doesn’t seem to catch fire.
Were Jay-Z and Beyonce legally in Cuba? Congress is on the case!
Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD), who is not running for re-election, says his views on gay marriage have “evolved sufficiently” to support the idea, leaving just two Democratic senators opposed to gay marriage. A third, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, is in the awkward position of being “undecided.”
We’ve almost reached a point at which it’s not news when Harry Reid threatens in frustration to revisit filibuster reform.
But his latest and most full-throated warning emphasizes an important and poorly understood fact about nature of the “nuclear option.” Read More