Joe Sestak gaining some serious ground on Arlen Specter in the latest poll on the Pennsylvania Democratic primary.
There’s a curious, fairly outrageous, brouhaha going on in the American Jewish community and particularly in the American Jewish community’s relationship with the current Israeli government. You may or may not have heard of J Street, a new pro-peace Zionist lobby recently established as a counterweight to AIPAC, which over the years has become more and more exclusively tied to the Israeli right.
Michael Oren is the recently installed Israeli Ambassador to the United States, who among other things wrote a very good history of the Six Day War. (Tom Segev’s 1967 is also a very good and very different book.) Prime Minister’s Netanyahu’s decision to appoint Oren was provocative in itself since Oren had already been quite critical of President Obama during last year’s presidential campaign. And he quickly set about pushing the envelope of what is normally considered acceptable in a resident ambassador by inserting himself into American domestic politics. Read More
I hadn’t heard anything about this. But there are massive protests scheduled today in Puerto Rico to protest Gov. Luis Fortuno’s plans to layoff another 17,000 state employees. Fortuno in turn is threatening to bring the protesters up on charges of terrorism.
Speaker Pelosi made clear at her weekly press conference that the House is not going to negotiate against itself when it comes to a public option.
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Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) is upping the ante today in her push to root out what she claims are Muslim intern ‘spies’ on Capitol Hill.
Also, in the “intern spy” vs. “intern spy” department, here’s actual intern spy Chris Gaubatz, who went undercover as Muslim convert intern “Dave Marshall” at CAIR, in a photo last year with genuine Muslim Congressman Andre Carson (D-IN).
It seems like a battle between moderate Republicans and the far right could hand NY-23 to the Dems this November.
You may have noticed (as we’ve reported) that a number of major energy utilities have abandoned the US Chamber of Commerce because of its hardline opposition to any legislation to combat climate change. Why? Zack Roth reports.