Rangel the tax cheat: “Racism” behind some ObamaCare opposition
As predictable as the sun rising and setting (via JWF):
Does Pelosi stand for anything?
I know on most issues she’s a diehard leftwing idealogue who does her best to please her ultra liberal SF base, but Charlie Rangel is a big time tax cheat who has no place sitting atop the House Ways and Means Committee, yet The Hill reports today that he will retain his position, because Pelosi’s not interested in pursuing the issue:
MA interim Senate appointment watch: Place your bets!
The Boston Globe reports today that the MA Gov. Deval Patrick (D) is pressing hard – “for Teddy!” – to get the state legislature to undo a law they put into place on Senate vacancies back in 2004 when the Governor was a Republican:
Double-digit losses in store for House Dems in 2010 elections?
The “experts” are saying it’s entirely possible (h/t: Memeorandum):
Reid to LV Review-Journal: I hope you go out of business
LVRJ publisher Sherman Frederick blasted US Senator Harry Reid today in a blistering piece on Reid’s recent publicly stated desire to see the LVRJ “go out of business”:
Use of Kennedy’s death for political advantage sinks to new lows
It’s not exactly surprising that the left would use the death of a prominent Democrat political figure in cheap attempts at gaining a political advantage. After all, we saw it with the Paul Wellstone memorial service and the Coretta Scott King funeral. In fact, the left has shown that they will not just use the deaths of liberals to score political points, but they’ll use the deaths of conservatives to do so as well, as long as they perceive that conservative to have been standing shoulder to shoulder with them on any number of big issues they deem important (see the death of Ford, Gerald for more).