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Fox News: NRSC won’t spend a dime on O’Donnell
Uh oh. Via Mediaite, not a surprise given their tepid congratulatory message tonight but a big mistake nonetheless if true. I understand the logic here — they want to do triage by not wasting money on...
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Quotes of the day
War. I just finished watching Karl Rove trashing GOP Senate primary winner Christine O’Donnell. It was on Sean Hannity’s FNC show. Might as well have been Olbermann on MSNBC. The establishment Beltway...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Strategery. Today’s OOTD comes to us from national security expert Jed Babbin at RCP, who notices that Barack Obama offered a bit of a mixed message on the war in Afghanistan. After making timelines...
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GOP moans about losing chance to take control of Senate with Castle defeat
Last week, they wouldn't predict taking the House. Last week, when trying to keep irrational exuberance in check about the likelihood of taking control of the House, Republicans warned that they might...
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Ayotte holding narrow lead over Lamontagne
Recount coming? The final primary night may last a little while longer, at least in New Hampshire, where the Republican nomination has resulted in a photo finish. With over 85% of the precincts...
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US offensive in Afghanistan targets “heart of darkness”
Options. The US-led forces in Afghanistan have begun one of the most ambitious missions in the new “surge” strategy as they attempt to pacify what some call the Taliban’s “heart of darkness,” the Zhari...
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Scarborough: Delaware Republicans voted for O’Donnell because of Dunkin’...
Halperin: "Apocalyptic." Jim Vicevich gives us a couple of revealing clips from this morning’s Joe Scarborough show after Christine O’Donnell’s upset of Mike Castle in the Delaware Senate primary....
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Cornyn: NRSC fully backing O’Donnell, giving maximum donation
Unity. It didn’t take long for wiser heads to prevail in the GOP establishment. After a report last night that the NRSC would abandon Delaware after the GOP favorite Mike Castle lost to Christine...
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WaPo: GOP wants to “deprive” gov’t of $4 trillion dollars …
... by not raising taxes. The rhetoric and reporting on the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts has often been confusing, and sometimes misleading. However, the lead from today’s Washington Post article by Lori...
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O’Donnell: GOP establishment needs to get over it
"Everything he is saying is unfactual." It appears that Christine O’Donnell has no intention of allowing attacks from either the Right or Left go unanswered. She appeared this morning on ABC’s Good...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Jim Geraghty, Guy Benson
Primary results and analysis at 3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Jim Geraghty of National Review’s Campaign Spot returns to analyze all of last night’s primary results — especially...
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Rush: Maybe Rove should have gotten this excited about Democrats
"It's Washington versus the country." “Let’s go balls to the wall for Christine O’Donnell,” Rush Limbaugh implored listeners on his show today, but Rush knows that his listeners are the choir to which...
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GOP up big in Ohio
Kasich up 12, Portman up 9. The polling in Ohio has ramifications far beyond the next seven weeks and the midterm cycle. Barack Obama won Ohio in 2008, the first Democrat to do so in decades, just two...
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Greenspan: Stimulus package “worked far less than expected”
Intel's CEO agrees. This may depend on how much one expected the Porkulus package to actually work. Many of us scoffed at the Keynesian notion that government spending had a 50% multiplier effect on...
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Delaware in the Control: Why, for tea partiers, the outcome really matters
Lessons. When William F. Buckley endorsed Joe Lieberman for the Senate in 1988, the Connecticut Republican Party was in the midst of a deep rift with the Republican incumbent, Lowell Weicker. As...
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Video: A new stimulating road-sign project from the GOP
Everyone can play! Signs, signs, everywhere there’s signs … and they all want to send a message that the $787 billion Porkulus package has succeeded in putting America back to work. It certainly put...
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DNC’s bombshell “major announcement” revealed: They’ve … got a new logo
Dude. Remember, this was billed yesterday as something that would “excite Democrats across the country.” Welcome to the new Democrats.org. Today we’ve launched a new website and updated our look. We...
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Breyer: On second thought …
Flagged. Earlier this week, Justice Stephen Breyer suggested that the Supreme Court might apply a “heckler’s veto” to those who burn the Koran while insisting on a different standard for those who burn...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson & the Week in Review
3 pm ET, 90 mins! Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we’ll take a look at the past week with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson of the Hugh Hewitt Show. Duane and I will discuss the fallout from...
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Consumer sentiment drops to lowest level since August 2009 …
... unexpectedly. Last week, Reuters polled its economists and determined that the US would not see any significant growth for at least the next year, thanks to mostly poor economic indicators this...
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