FBI agents doing the background check on Bill Richardson apparently started bumping into their colleagues who were investigating those pay-to-play allegations in New Mexico.
Subject line of a mass email I just received from Newsmax.com “Hot Sarah Palin Calendar Just Released”
See the hotness here.
Labor lawyer and author Tom Geoghegan announces he’s running for Illinois’ 5th District, Rahm Emanuel’s seat.
Don’t know what his chances are — he seems more like the type of guy you’d like to see in the House than the type who actually gets there. But let’s see. It’s important to aim high.
We were trying to nail down whether the Obama transition really did brief Sen. Wyden and not Feinstein. Or was it that Wyden just got tipped off informally, perhaps even from Panetta. Turns out no. Wyden’s office tells us the transition did brief and consult with him on Panetta, while apparently leaving Feinstein in the dark.
Feinstein and Rockefeller may not be on board with the Panetta pick, but former intel chair Pat Roberts (R-KS) tells TPM Election Central he’s just fine with it.
It’s been clear that in addition to Sen. Feinstein, at least as aggrieved is Sen. Rockefeller, the out-going chair of the senate intel committee. When asked this afternoon whether the Panetta appointment endangered the country, the best he could manage was: “That’s a provocative way to put it.”
Norm Coleman is set to speak publicly at 4 p.m. ET for the first time since the recount ended in Minnesota.
Will he concede? Vow to fight on in the courts? Try to prove he’s got a better stand-up routine than Franken?
Norm Coleman makes it official: He’s going to sue to keep his seat.
Jeb Bush not going to run for empty Florida Senate seat in ’10.