It’s not easy being a Southern Democrat these days, but Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln hasn’t helped herself. Her effort to triangulate her way to re-election has only succeeded in earning her a primary opponent and she’s still stuck with horrible poll numbers for a general election that’s just six months away.
I can’t believe that Obama wasn’t tweaking Mitt Romney this morning when he told NBC that his health care plan is an awful lot like Mitt’s:
When you actually look at the bill itself, it incorporates all sorts of Republican ideas. I mean a lot of commentators have said this is sort of similar to the bill that Mitt Romney, the Republican Governor and now presidential candidate, passed in Massachusetts.
Romney has been scrambling to distance himself from Obama’s plan and not get stuck on the wrong side of a litmus test issue for conservatives, so Obama’s helpful reminder that the two plans are similar is like throwing a drowning man an anchor.
The Philadelphia man charged with threatening to kill Rep. Eric Cantor and his family was arrested last year for allegedly threatening to have the angel Gabriel kill his roommate.
An expert on right-wing militias tells TPMmuckraker that the cultists/militiamen known as the Hutaree were “right smack in the middle of the militia movement.”
That’s a wedding photo of two of the members of the Christian militia group called Hutaree, posted on Facebook by the bride, who along with her husband and two of his sons were among the nine charged by the feds over the weekend.
As Justin Elliott puts it, “For the leading family of Hutaree, the armed Christian group in Michigan accused of plotting to kill police, membership in the militia went beyond paramilitary training sessions and into something resembling a full-blown lifestyle choice.”
The rest of Justin’s report and more pics are here.
The Washington Times issues statement denying the report, on Drudge, that it’s up for sale.
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), his party’s nominee for U.S. Senate, was one of the first to pledge to repeal the new health care reform law, and was reiterating it as recently as mid-March. Now he won’t repeat that pledge in public.
He’s the darling of conservative insurgents, but Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio is facing an insurrection of his own among tea party groups in Florida.
California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina (R) describes Passover as a time where “we break bread and spend time with our families and friends.”
Mitt Romney’s camp sent over a response to President Obama’s poke of Mitt yesterday about how similar their two health care reforms are. Let the parsing begin!