by Bill Scher | Sep 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Republicans Abandon Key Conservative Positions for Midterms Parties will give up on certain races soon. The Hill: "In October, the cycle is entering the phase when party officials must put candidates through triage, like a hospital station on the Western Front....
by Bill Scher | Sep 26, 2014 | Blog
Earlier this month I observed, over at Real Clear Politics, that Republicans have been leaning left to survive the midterm elections, belying notions of a conservative-fueled Republican wave. And on this site my colleague Isaiah J. Poole noted that the GOP has been...
by Bill Scher | Sep 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Holder's Wall Street Legacy AG Eric Holder's lack of banker prosecutions is "his biggest failure" says TNR's Danny Vinik: "Holder simply never tried to use it to hold Wall Street executives accountable. That is a major blemish on Holder’s record. Bankers sleep easier...
by Bill Scher | Sep 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
Republicans Have Hard Time Buying Senate Democrats holding their own in Senate TV ad spending. Center for Public Integrity: "The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ruled the TV airwaves last week, even trumping the conservative super PACs and Koch...
by Bill Scher | Sep 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
Obama Headlines Climate Summit Obama nudges China in U.N. climate summit address. NYT: "Declaring that the United States and China — the world’s two largest economies and largest polluters — bear a 'special responsibility to lead,' Mr. Obama said, 'That’s what big...
