Jersey’s golden boy may not have a gilded path to the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.
As we noted yesterday, Republicans are officially slow-walking Chuck Hagel’s confirmation — they filibustered him yesterday but have publicly pledged to end that filibuster in about 10 days, after the Senate returns from recess.
In all likelihood, that means he’ll be confirmed the Tuesday or Wednesday after next. But every day of delay is a day during which some genuine issue might arise and derail his nomination. I don’t think that’s going to happen — if the oppo scavengers haven’t found a bombshell at this point, they’re probably not going to — but it’s something to watch for. Read More
Tom Vilsack takes pass on Tom Harkin’s soon-to-be open Senate seat.
Congressman’s tweets during State of the Union to comely young blonde woman are totally not what you think.
On the heels of Thursday’s report that the tea party group FreedomWorks scrapped plans to release a bizarre phony panda-Hillary Clinton sex video comes word that the group’s Arizona director also did away with plans to hand out “Be Mein” Hitler valentines to state lawmakers.
Multiple reports say there’s been a major meteorite impact in Chelyabinsk Russia. Videos and more after the jump. Read More