What is it about these two and their fixation on the phrase separation of Church and State?
Today Christine actually made a debate audience gasp.
And who can ever forget Glenn’s stellar performance…
That video never gets old, and I’m thrilled Carney is using it.
There really isn’t a difference between Glenn and Christine, and that needs to be pointed out again, and again, and again.
In case you’ve forgotten… Steve Benen and Bill Simmon make a video.
VOTE!
While I won’t link to David Anderson’s House of Crazy, Think123 has been asking the same questions on every thread. Needless to say, he has received no answers. Notta one.
Do you know where O’Donnell was born, raised, went to school? Do you know where she lives currently? What year she became a Delaware resident. Do her parents live in Delaware? We need to hear some personal details. I can’t find anything. What [do] you know? Many of us are wondering how she survived with no income to speak of for ten years.
These are not unreasonable questions – they are basic. Why are the answers such a secret?
Can anyone provide answers?
A watchdog group says it plans to ask authorities in Delaware to investigate Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s finances.
At issue are more than $20,000 of spending in 2009 and 2010 that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington claims was illegal.
“It turns out Miss O’Donnell has treated her campaign funds like they are her very own personal piggy bank. She’s used that money to pay for things like her rent, for gas, meals and even a bowling outing. And that’s just flat-out illegal,” said Melanie Sloan, the group’s executive director.
In an interview on CNN’s “AC360,” Sloan said her organization would be sending letters to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware and the Federal Elections Commission on Monday asking them to investigate.
“For example, in 2009, Miss O’Donnell wasn’t a candidate for anything, yet she had numerous campaign expenses, things like travel and gas, and yet she had no actual campaign,” Sloan said.
O’Donnell’s spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.
O’Donnell’s spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment. Why, I’m shocked!
And, for those of you dying to paint this as a partisan witch hunt (witch hunt – get it!) the group calling for the investigation is the same group that called for Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, to step down after allegations of ethics violations.
Use the comment section to let us know what’s going on at tonight’s JCC Candidate Forum!
One of the upsets of the night was challenger Trinidad Navarro’s defeat of 30-year incumbent Sheriff Mike Walsh. We’ve reported several times that Walsh seemed to take the challenge as a personal insult. I guess we’re not going to see a kiss-and-make-up in this race.
Walsh, 72, has held the office since 1980, overseeing the distribution of court papers and administering real estate sales on foreclosures homes. He said he blames himself for the loss.
“My honest feeling is that I have severely let down the sheriff’s office, and I’ve let down the people of New Castle County to let the job of sheriff fall into his hands,” Walsh said. “I am ashamed of myself for allowing it to happen, although I worked hard.”
Classy!
Delaware Liberal is about to get deluged. A Christine O’Donnell win means her crazed supporters are feeling powerful and now that Chris Coons is the one standing in the way of her annointment their eyes will turn to us. I don’t know how much you followed what happened on the Delaware Tomorrow blog but they practically had to shut down for a while because of harassment of O’Donnell supporters and one blogger was even driven off of the blog.
If you’re posting here under your name, I strongly suggest you use a pseudonym. Of course, this decision is up to you. Also, we will lower any tolerance for “outing” behavior. No more “you sound like X” or “I know where you live” type of statements. People need to come here to discuss things without worrying that political feuds are going to spill over into real life. Just be careful about revealing information about posters who you may know.
We’ll post the results as we receive them. We’ll be watching the results roll in on the Department of Elections website.
You can also go to WDEL and the News Journal for results.
Here’s a new twist to the victim card. Sharron Angle says that Harry Reid is “trying to hit the girl.”
“It is also the corruption in Washington, DC that is characterized by Harry Reid, lets-make-a-deal cronyism, politics as usual, and so we’re saying dirty tricks Harry is up to his dirty tricks one more time and he’s just trying to hit the girl,” Angle said on the Alan Stock Show.
“You know, isolate that Sharron Angle, marginalize her and then demonize her,” she said in a separate appearance on the Heidi Harris Show. “And he has been doing that to me and what we need to do is say, ‘you know Harry, it’s not going to do you any good to hit the girl.’”
Spare me. Also, what adult women refers to herself as a girl. The kind looking for special treatment.
But Angle’s choice of words is especially relevant given Republicans have cited her gender as one of the many reasons they believe she has a good shot of defeating the Majority Leader. They point out that Reid has never had to face a woman before in a Senate race.
“Yes, Harry is going after the girl. He is attacking her, but that’s part of politics,” Smith added. “In polite society, you don’t attack the girl. We always wondered what would happen with Harry and his nastiness because some people would get upset if he’s mean to a woman.”
Um, okay. So they think her gender is an advantage because… in polite society, you don’t attack the girl? Yeah, I noticed how well Republicans lived these principles when it came to Hillary.
I honestly have no idea what will end up happening in November, but these numbers aren’t promising for anyone.
52% of the undecideds in the Senate race disapprove of President Obama to 35% who like the job he’s doing. They don’t think much of the Democrats in Congress either- only 26% have a like the job they’re doing.
Those numbers might seem bad- but they pale in comparison to how negatively those voters feel about Congressional Republicans- only 10% approve of the job they’re doing while 61% disapprove. So these voters are down on President Obama and the Democratic majority- but their most negatives feelings are toward the Republican minority.
These are folks who normally would vote to ‘throw the bums out.’ But they think the alternative is even bigger bums. It’ll be interesting to see how folks like this across the country end up voting this fall- and it could determine whether Democrats keep control of the House and a healthy majority in the Senate or not.
Only 10% approve of Congressional Republicans? I was feeling a little blue until I saw those numbers.
I’ve been watching Florida very closely mainly because it’s one of the most prominent tests the Tea Party will face. And while a lot can happen until the election this can’t be good news for the “purge the moderates” group.
Gov. Charlie Crist has a large lead in the three-way race to the be the next Senator from Florida, a new poll found this weekend. The poll, conducted for the Florida Chamber of Commerce, shows Crist with a double-digit lead over both of his opponents in the general election, likely Republican nominee Marco Rubio and Democrat Kendrick Meek.
The poll, fielded by Republican pollster Cherry Communications, shows Crist with 42% of the vote, Rubio with 31% and Meek with 14%. The poll was conducted June 9-13 among 607 likely voters and has a margin of error of 4%.
Uh oh.
As far as I’m concerned, I want Crist to win – and win big. Not because I like Crist, but rather because the Tea Party’s 15 minutes is up. They really need to be put in perspective.
Here’s the Washington Post report.
Bayh was a DINO who never took a bold position on anything, unlike his father, Birch Bayh, who was an early opponent of the Vietnam War.
The money (literally & figuratively) quote:
“After all these years, my passion for service to my fellow citizens is undiminished, but my desire to do so by serving in Congress has waned,” Bayh will say.
What’s the over/under on how soon his lobbying career begins? My prediction: It already has.
It is fair to note that this poll shows a pretty toxic environment for both parties, but it seems clear that if you are a Congressional Dem, you have abit of an edge to build from. And if you are a Congressional repub, the massive media spin (and media lock) isn’t exactly getting you alot of traction. Not yet, at least.
The poll is a new NYT/CBS News Poll that was released this week. Some highlights:
I don’t think you can overstate how toxic this environment is to anybody in the Federal government right now. But there is a pretty clear hierarchy of approval/good will here and President Obama is at the top of that hierarchy for now. Why congressional Democrats don’t take advantage of that — and help themselves and Obama — is a real mystery to me.