Editors’ Blog - 2010
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05.14.10 | 9:18 am
NH Calls off Civil War over HCR

Well, maybe not that bad but close. The New Hampshire House just voted down a law that would have declared the federal Health Care Reform legislation null and void within the state of New Hampshire and made it a felony for any federal official to try to enforce it.

Alas, it didn’t go down by that big a margin: 121 for, 182 against.

05.14.10 | 9:49 am
Why Arlen’s Still In It

From TPM Reader DC

I totally disagree with many of your readers comments. I grew up in Philly and remember Spector as an honest, straight-shooting DA and then Senator.

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05.14.10 | 11:00 am
Shorter Buchanan: What’s with all the Jews?

Pat Buchanan laments the rough shake white Christians are getting these days from Democratic presidents.

05.14.10 | 12:42 pm
Uber-D’oh

Who could have guessed that campaigning on taking away voters’ voting rights wouldn’t catch fire with voters?

Politicians are funny folks, right and left. And a lot of Republicans have been happy to get behind pretty much anything the Tea Partiers have run up the flag pole. But it turns out that maybe campaigning on taking away people’s right to vote for their senators wasn’t such a hot idea. And now a few Republicans — like Steve Stivers in Ohio and among others — are now trying to backtrack as fast as they can.

05.14.10 | 2:16 pm
Straight From The Movies

Obama dispatches ragtag team of scientists to rescue us from Gulf oil spill — before it’s too late!

05.15.10 | 2:26 pm
The Final Countdown

With just three days to go until the big primaries in Arkansas, Kentucky and Pennsylvania, we’re tracking all the latest news coming out of the races. Here’s what we caught so far today:

Specter and Sestak are still locked in a dead heat in Pennsylvania.

And Blanche Lincoln says in a new interview the progressive groups that oppose her just don’t get it.

05.16.10 | 6:15 am
Specter And Sestak Go One More Round

In back-to-back interviews on CNN morning, Joe Sestak and Arlen Specter made their closing arguments before the big Tuesday primary in Pennsylvania.

05.16.10 | 7:17 am
Guess His Mind Is Made Up

Newt Gingrich on Elena Kagan: “I say to the Senate: You do not need hearings. You know why she’s not worthy of being a Supreme Court justice.”

Watch the video here.

05.16.10 | 8:51 am
Move Along, Nothing To See Here

Mitch McConnell has a message for all those prognosticators out there who say Tuesday’s GOP Senate Primary in his home state of Kentucky is a referendum on establishment Republicans like him: What, me worry?

05.16.10 | 11:06 am
Take Your Best (Or Only Remaining) Shot

Arlen Specter is now calling out Joe Sestak over his “F” grade from the NRA — but only to rural voters.