Republicans put Sen. John Cornyn in charge of their senate campaign committee this year. But every candidate he’s gotten behind is losing on the ground in their respective states. And at least a few look likely to lose in their primaries.
Confirming what he said last night on Hardball, Rep. Gutierrez’s (D-IL) confirms he’s a no now on Health Care Reform.
As we get down to crunch time on the big health care vote in the House, we’re closely tracking which members who voted yes on the earlier House version of the bill are changing their votes to no on the Senate version of the bill. But as you probably well know, crunch time is also when a lot of deals are cut and congressman feel they have the most leverage. So you see a lot of gamesmanship going on.
Take the case of Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL). He voted for the original House bill. But as I mentioned earlier, he was on Hardball last night and said he would vote against the Senate bill bill because of the immigration provisions. That prompted some of our readers to call Gutierrez’s office today, and they got a pretty different answer about what Gutierrez’s position really is: Read More
The GOP’s real plan to kill Health Care Reform: psy-ops against House Dems.
Former eBay CEO and now GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman got caught staging a town hall meeting. “You’re an integral part of this, lots of cheering would be good.”
This comes on the heels of the photo op that she invited reporters to only to have her security remove them from the premises.
As politics and particularly political fundraising becomes more and more a brainstem-stimulating affair, I feel like we’re all increasingly familiar with the literary form I’m calling ‘gonzonia’, those mass emails sent out, usually to raise money, aimed at the most irascible, angry and threatened, or simply the ost impulsive people. You know, the emails with a lot of exclamation points and bolds and underlines and even double underlines when the rush of regular old underlines wears off for over-use. Read More
Who are the House Dems saying they’re going to vote “no” on Health Care Reform even after they voted yes back in November? Here’s our list.
In the spirit of Eric Massa’s non-sexual groping, top Utah legislator introduces non-sexual naked hot-tubbing.
Did Dobson get dumped from Focus on the Family because his son (who Dobson wanted to succeed him running the theocracy) is divorced?
It’s tricky going through the revolving door twice without getting hung up. Republican Dan Coats was the senator from Indiana then became a lobbyist and now wants to return to his old seat, succeeding Evan Bayh. On the campaign trail, Coats is railing against the bailout. But lobbyist disclosure forms show Coats was lobbying the Senate on behalf of Chrysler’s parent company for TARP benefits in late 2008. Eric Kleefeld reports.