Welcome to your Wednesday open thread. The election is only 6 days away and I don’t know how it is in your part of Delaware but I’ve witnessed a sign explosion. Lots of Coons signs, some Carney signs and few O’Donnell signs.
When health care reform passed, Steve Benen highlighted the “repeal trap.” The repeal trap is repealing the popular parts of the bill. Democrats, of course, have dropped the ball on this but one Democrat running in a probably doomed race against Eric Cantor is not afraid.
I really wish more Democrats had the strength of their convictions, but I think it’s too much to ask. Politicians are just not brave.
Is anyone really surprised by this – the GOP is asking applicants for jobs with the next Congress to take an ideology purity test.
First, all applicants for staff jobs with Republican members are being urged to take an ideological litmus test.
The House Republican Study Committee is asking people who want to work for a member of the conservative group next Congress to fill out ideological surveys on the websites of two conservative organizations….
The links to questionnaires on the websites of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and Leadership Institute’s conservativejobs.com site, are pasted into the RSC e-mail. The RSC claims more than 115 House Republicans as its membership….
The questionnaire on the Heritage Foundation website asks applicants questions about their views on foreign, economic and social policy.
Applicants are then asked to “rate” their level of agreement with individuals and organizations on the survey.
Individuals and organizations listed include former vice president Al Gore, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the Cato Institute, President George W. Bush and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
I can already tell it’s going to be a long 2 years until 2012.