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Video: Obama on filibusters, now and then
Call the waaahmbulance. It’s interesting to see how one’s perspective changes as circumstances evolve, isn’t it? For instance, when young liberals start owning property and paying taxes, they often...
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Another Pledge of Allegiance outburst sighting in PA-18 debate
A "ruckus"? My favorite part of this report is when the television anchor claims that the Pledge of Allegiance isn’t usually controversial. It’s been controversial for years, which is probably why the...
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Obama: ObamaCare provides “structure” for further gov’t growth
Just like Social Security! Oh, man, I’ve had it up to here with those lying wingnuts that claim ObamaCare is just a Trojan horse for expansion of government control over health care. This was just a...
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Video: MN group attacks Dayton on aide firing
"Above the law, beneath the office." The conservative group Minnesota Future will hit airwaves in the state with an ad hitting Democratic gubernatorial nominee and former US Senator Mark Dayton over a...
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Could Djou hold his district in Hawaii?
Change, extended. When Charles Djou won a special election to replace Neil Abercrombie in the House earlier this year, most people chalked it up to the dynamics of the compressed campaign and the two...
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Behar, take three: I shouldn’t have called Sharron Angle a bitch because,...
The greatest show on earth. Via Mediaite. One of these days we’re going to stop doing Behar/Angle “bitch” posts. But that day is not today, my friends. I wonder what Joy’s motivation was here. Did...
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Sketchy new poll: Joe Miller now in … third place?
Nah. “Sketchy” is Nate Silver’s adjective of choice, but you don’t need him to see why these numbers should, shall we say, be “taken with caution.” Can it really be She Who Shall Not Be Named 34, Scott...
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Wow: Charlie Cook moves Barney Frank’s seat from “likely Democratic” to “lean...
Believe. Remember, as of just a few weeks ago, this seat wasn’t even on the board. Then, for the first time in decades, MA-4 popped up in the “likely Democratic” column. And now, if you’ll pardon the...
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Crist to Olbermann: Oh yeah, Meek talked to me about dropping out;...
Chaos. When writing the earlier post, I completely forgot that Crist was doing an interview tonight on, er, “national” cable news. So that explains the timing of this story — they coordinated it so...
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Video: Canadian citizen with giant carbon footprint pretty opinionated about...
Interference. The One tried to warn us about shadowy foreigners interfering in our elections, didn’t he? And yet, we laughed at him. Who’s laughing now? I don’t know anything about the substance of the...
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Quotes of the day
Considerations. “‘What you’re seeing is the first shot in the war against Sarah Palin,’ said Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips. ‘Karl Rove is a very shrewd political operative. Getting himself...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Pee Wee league. Maybe someone at the White House needs to keep Barack Obama away from the cameras, or at least away from the television talk shows. In an attempt to energize young voters for the...
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Meek: Yes, I discussed withdrawing with Clinton
"We talked about the rumor that I was going to drop out ..." Via the Daily Caller, MSNBC’s Morning Joe provides a preview of Kendrick Meek’s next four days. Time’s Mark Halperin grills Meek about...
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WaPo: White House writes off Wisconsin as lost
Triage. The Washington Post says that the White House has a message for Wisconsin Democrats: You’re on your own. In a report on the desperate triage taking place inside the Oval Office, presidential...
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Q3 GDP at 2.0%
For now. If Democrats hoped for a splashy third-quarter GDP number to shake them from their midterm doldrums, the Commerce Department has disappointed them today. Their initial estimate of the US...
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“High-level” political officials interfered in NBPP case, forced withdrawal
And the DoJ covered it up. The US Civil Rights Commission has concluded in an extensive report that the strange decision to dismiss a case the Department of Justice had won by default against a New...
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New poll has Angle up 4 over Reid
Surging? The CNN/Time Magazine poll turned out to be too strange for any credibility, but Mason-Dixon has been polling this race for months, and they have begun to see some daylight for Sharron Angle...
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Pelosi to quit if GOP takes the House?
Bonus. Assuming that the Republicans take control of the House in the next session of Congress, what will happen with current Democratic leadership? Usually after an electoral debacle, the remaining...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Week in Review with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson
3 pm ET! 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 cover the developments of the...
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Dem Rep: We don’t have a voter-fraud problem
Guess who? The most encouraging part of this clip may be the audience reaction to Betty McCollum’s claim that voter fraud doesn’t exist. In the debate between McCollum and her Republican challenger...
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