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Here’s something to keep a close eye on. Yesterday when Chuck Schumer muscled his way into the tax reform debate many of us who follow this stuff recognized it as an effort to prevent fellow Dems from striking a crappy deal, or at least to strengthen their bargaining position. In either case, it was bound to complicate back channel negotiations with Republicans.
But 24 hours later it looks like its greatest effect has been to force Republicans to show their cards early. Read More
Mitt Romney got notice this week for incorporating into his stump speech a story about how he’d once inadvertently met one of the former Navy Seals, Glen Doherty, killed in the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. But now his family and friends are making some more unwelcome news. Read More
Spokesman for Science committee congressman who decried science as Satanic lie says comments were “off the record.”
Gallup has moved their daily tracking poll to a 50-50 split between landlines and cell phones.
Echoing that old Bush administration line that you don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud, RNC spokesman Sean Spicer says it would be irresponsible to wait for evidence of voter fraud before cracking down on it.
This is a small little part of that interview Romney did yesterday with The Des Moines Register. But Romney appeared to suggest that President Obama should have pushed another health care reform law which also had a federal mandate.
The best of Mitt Romney’s abortion bamboozlement in 100 seconds…
Romney repositions again on abortion. Now back to full pro-life.