Hold Fast

Democracy 21 head Fred Wertheimer, a strong McCain ally, says that he is stuck in public financing until the FEC says otherwise:
The shut down of the Federal Election Commission has taken center stage because there is no functioning agency to deal with the issue of whether bank loans taken out by Senator John McCain (R-AZ), […]

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Glenn Greenwald on McCain’s latest endorsement from hate-mongering Christianist John Hagee.
Watching the media’s treatment of Farrakhan and Hagee, is it possible to imagine a more transparent, and grotesque, double standard? In the framework of the Russert-led establishment press, white evangelical Christians are, by definition, entitled to great respect no matter how radical, extreme and […]

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Shorter Republicans in Congress: Don’t the Big Telecoms know how badly they need us to help them? Don’t they know that we’ll never ask them to follow the law? What gives?
Roll Call reports that Republicans on the Hill are up in arms over the fact that the telecom industry isn’t giving more money to GOP […]

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The New York Times has an interesting profile piece of Louisiana’s Republican Governor Bobby Jindal. Jindal is considered a superstar in the Republican Party - he’s young, the son of Indian immigrants, and primed to be at the front of the next generation of Republican presidential candidates.
The Times piece is on how he’s pushed for […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo

Hooray for public art.

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Two days into his campaign and former Republican Tony Raimondo is already doing his best Mitt Romney impersonation in the Nebraska Senate race.

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During the course of writing a number of times on Tim Russert’s offensive line of questioning of Barack Obama on Louis Farrakhan last night, I did a Google search of the term “jew-baiting.” The second hit on that search was a blog post by my friend Steve Gilliard, titled “Jew Baiting in America” from December, […]

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The good news, according to TPM Muckraker, is that Foundation for the Defense of Democracies - which is running the odious wiretapping ad against freshman Democratic incumbents - has been abandoned by all Democratic members of its Board of Advisors. Not surprisingly, the exception to the rule, as always, is Joe Lieberman:
Our call and […]

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Conservative scholar and pundit William F. Buckley has died. Rick Perlstein has a piece up in memoriam, titled “Why William F. Buckley Was My Role Model.” Though he was no role model of mine, I highly recommend Perlstein’s piece, as it provides a great insight into how Buckley modeled the way the battle of […]

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More good news for Democratic Senate prospects in 2008. The Caucus reports:
It looks like Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, the most senior Republican in the Senate, may have a serious challenger in November.
Democrat Mark Begich, the popular mayor of Anchorage, has scheduled a news conference this afternoon, where he is expected to announce the formation […]

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