Rep. Chris Abu-Ghraib-Was-A-“Sex-Ring” Shays (R-CT) on the Iraq War: “In my judgment we should have gone in sooner but not for weapons of mass destruction.”
Stay the (secret) course!
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) in a debate with Dem Jon Tester yesterday: â[Tester] says our president donât have a plan. I think heâs got one. Heâs not going to tell everyone in the world.”
Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL), to prove her resolve, says she’s selling her D.C. home for campaign cash. She just hasn’t gotten around to getting a realtor.
Yet another classic John Doolittle moment. He attacks his opponent for supporting the ACLU, which has defended child sex predators. Meanwhile, Doolittle himself was a character witness for a dentist on trial for sexually assaulting his patients while they were anesthetized.
TPM Reader RT wonders …
At some point, in the vast TPM Media empire, you need to start taking bets on when the OBL video will be released. I’m thinking the Friday morning before the election. That will suck all the air out of the Sunday shows and put the kibosh on the Dem Wave story.
You know OBL is coming. He has to. He hasn’t sat out an election since he bombed the Cole.
The only question is will it mobilize the base more than piss the Dem Wave off more?
Sounds right to me. Clearly, Osama can’t keep a regular video taping operation going while he’s on the run or living in that duplex in Quetta or the brownstone in Karachi. But he does seem to be able to put out video clips at key moments on the Jihadist version of youtube. So when does it drop?
I really don’t think ‘I can’t talk about it’ plays well in a close fought election, does it?
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bob Corker said Wednesday he was forbidden from talking about a settlement in a lawsuit that challenged how a city conservation easement became an access road to commercial property his company sold while he was mayor.
“We are not even allowed” to talk about it, Corker said, citing a deal between “number of parties that have been involved” as plaintiffs and defendants.
The agreement in the three-year environmental lawsuit has extended the mystery for voters in his race against Democratic U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. of Memphis. The Democrat’s campaign seized on the issue Wednesday.
“It was public land belonging to the people of Chattanooga and Tennessee. They deserve to know if Bob Corker destroyed it to make millions and then wrote a check to avoid having to tell the truth about it in a deposition,” Ford campaign spokesman Tom Lee said.
But don’t worry. Corker insists the need for secrecy is “absolutely” not political.
He must think it’s worth it. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis has spent almost $800,000 of campaign dollars to the lawyers defending him in the ever-expanding Duke Cunningham investigation.
Good he’s not in charge of where money gets spent or anything.
If these Constituent Dynamics polls of New York state House races are close to accurate we could really see a blow-out in the New York congressional delegation. Walsh in CD 25, down by 8 points; Kuhl in CD 29, down by 12 points; Sweeney in CD 20, down by 13 points; Kelly in CD 19, down by 9 points.
I think the Constituent Dynamics poll is a Robo-call. So that puts a certain level of question mark after the result. But those numbers don’t include the open Boerhlert seat where Michael Arcuri appears to be running strong or Tom Reynolds who the same poll had down by 17 points only last week.
Did the NRCC tip their hand? The NRCC dropped $163,000 into the PA 4 race — Hart (R) v. Altmire (D) — after spending a little under $11,000 on a poll. It sounds like they didn’t like what they heard from that poll.
Just a few days ago, the Altmire campaign released its own poll that had him trailing Hart by a mere four points — Hart (48%), Altmire (44%). It sounds like the NRCC poll wasn’t much better. Maybe not even as good.
Based on this CQ has bumped the race from Republican Favored to Leans Republican. So Hart is still favored. But it’s a real race.
If I were Altmire’s folks I’d certainly want to make the point that DeLay and Hastert put Hart on the Ethics Committee after they purged it of non-loyalists. They knew she would be a rubber stamp vote for DeLay and other House GOPers who got into trouble. That’s telling.
Another on our list of races we’re eyeing closely. Here’s Hart’s website and here’s Altmire’s.
The U.S. sent Mahar Arar off to be tortured in a Syrian prison, but even though he’s been exonerated, they still won’t take him off the no-fly list. That and other news of the day in today’s Daily Muck.