The Virginia state Senate’s surprise redistricting plan – pushed through by a one-vote margin when a lone Democrat was in Washington for the inauguration – has now died in the state House.
Fox News’ Steve Doocy: What I meant was Hillary Clinton’s website got a facelift, sheesh.
Set aside your work for a moment and meditate on these. You’ll be glad you did.
Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL): “If Rove wants a fight for the soul of the Republican Party, bring it on.”
Pretty amazed by this. Sen. Levin appears to have consented to Sen. Cruz’s demand for an open-ended investigation into every speech Hagel gave in the last four years and what “foreign governments and foreign agents” may have influenced him.
According to a new study coauthored by Brown University political scientist Rose McDermott, a fearful people are likely to have conservative attitudes to so-called ‘out-groups’. And that heavily affects attitudes on hot button issues like immigration, war, segregation, and racial and sexual difference. Read More
Okay, back to Karl Rove and Steven Law’s Conservative Victory Project and their effort to shut down the Tea Party Senate candidates who threaten again to deny Republicans the Senate majority they probably should have won in 2010 and 2012. We thought of doing a post this morning about all the conservatives who are now claiming that Rove is actually no conservative at all. But while this was happening, a whole new part of the drama broke out. Read More
More signs of a fissure between Republican defense hawks and fiscal conservatives over the the sequester-driven cuts to the Pentagon budget. The outstanding question is whether the split will be wide enough to force a deal to avoid the sequester. Brian Beutler reports.