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Who will people blame, should we fall off the fiscal cliff?
Outgoing Maine GOP party chair sounds alarm, will investigate reports of mystery “black people” showing up to vote in rural towns.
I’ve been waiting for the post-election Downfall videos to start coming out. And here’s one someone just made. TPM even gets a mention!
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Brian Beutler, our senior congressional correspondent, knows the policy and political dimensions of the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ better than anyone. And this afternoon at 4 PM he’s doing a Live Chat on the topic at TPMPrime. Get your questions in now.
In 1952 Adlai Stevenson was the presidential nominee of the Democratic party and lost. He was renominated in 1956 to face Dwight Eisenhower again. And again he lost. There are some other cases like this in American history. Grover Cleveland actually won two non-consecutive terms in office. William Jennings Bryant was nominated multiple times. Read More
After complaining loudly and publicly for weeks about not getting enough information from the administration about the Benghazi attack, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) skipped Wednesday’s classified briefing for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that he sits on. CNN had the temerity to ask McCain about it today — and he was NOT happy.