I noted yesterday, apparently with a number of others, that CPAC this year seems to lack a certain ooomph. Forget a ‘certain ooomph’, make that any ooomph. The whole thing just seems tired. A moment ago I was listening to Chuck Todd discuss this year’s festivities on MSNBC and there was the expected and correct reference to having just lost a big presidential campaign. But that’s nothing new for the GOP over the last couple decades.
So what’s going on right now? Read More
How CPAC is handling the immigration issue this year is absolutely fascinating.
If you look at where Senate Republicans are right now on gun control, even background checks, you’d have to say the NRA side of legislative battle is winning.
Today readers have been all over this great moment when Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) took a swipe at Ted Cruz for some really silly and condescending remarks about guns. Here’s her comments about it this afternoon on CNN.
But there’s some backstory that I know many of you know about but I’m not sure everyone does — especially not some younger people. It’s also one I remember very vividly. And it’s been rattling through my head all day. Read More
A compelling piece from Benjy Sarlin on Republicans openly, candidly, and not easily grappling with immigration reform on the first day of CPAC.
Some highlights from the first day of this year’s annual conservative confab:
Matthew Keys, 26, the current deputy social media editor at Reuters, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Sacramento for allegedly conspiring with Anonymous to hack the website of the Tribune Company. (Read the indictment.) The alleged conduct occurred more than two years ago, apparently before he began working for Reuters, and not long after being fired from a Tribune Company TV station in California, where he was a web producer.
The charges are serious and so are the potential penalties, including jail time. In keeping with his role as a social media editor for a major news organizations, Keys is active on Twitter and interacts frequently with other journalists outside of Reuters. So he’s well-known, at least virtually, among social-media-savvy journalists. More soon …
Boehner tells Republicans: Guys, it’s over. Stop trying to defund Obamacare.