Inspired by this picture for the ages of Callista Gingrich meeting with Ellie the Elephant, tell us which is your favorite politico meeting with a stuffed animal/puppet friend.
Dems float surtax on millionaires to pay for (and consolidate support for) jobs bill.
We’re bringing you live election results out of West Virginia this evening. 22% in at the moment, Tomblin (D) was a 6 point margin.
And the AP has called the West Virginia Governor’s race for Tomblin (D). Historically, West Virginia has been such a Democratic state that at one level it’s no surprise. But at the national level, West Virginia has become a strongly Republican state in the last decade. And Republicans made a big push to take this race with carpet-bombing anti-Obama campaign ads. But it didn’t work.
They said that Thomas Dewey looked like the little man on the wedding cake. Maureen Dowd said that the first President Bush looked like every woman’s first husband. Whoever Mitt Romney is, now … the GOP’s got him. There’s no Chris Christie. No no one. Yes, Herman Cain is now first or second in the polls. But c’mon: he’s not the nominee. Newt? Santorum? No. Bachmann has lost so many staffers at this point that she’s personally responsible for a non-trivial level of the national unemployment rate. And Perry? Well, it’s still possible but he needs to do something soon to right the ship, to put it mildly. We’re going to publish a story tomorrow putting together a lot of new polling data that shows that the overwhelming number of Republicans simply haven’t made up their minds on who they’re going to support. In a way, it’s as wide open as it’s ever been. Read More
The US government and the country’s internet service providers can’t agree what to do about ‘botnets’, collections of compromised computers remotely controlled by malevolent parties. That’s even though both sides agree they are one of the greatest threats facing users of the web.
How much can the DOJ do to fight back against the GOP’s nation-wide effort to crack down on the right to vote?
Republicans call for special prosecutor to investigate Attorney General Eric Holder and ATF’s botched gun-smuggling sting.