Former DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe made it official over the weekend, announcing that he's running for governor in Virginia.

Virginia's Republicans are perfectly capable of nominating a seriously horrible person for governor. Still, it's hard to see myself ever voting for the supreme dildo McAuliffe.

Shouldn't Patterson be appointing someone today? He shouldn't have let it drag out this long.

Patterson has said he won't appoint anyone until Hillary is confirmed. She also won't resign until then.

now maloney is a senator i could get excited about (nothing against CK, but at least i know what maloney's been doing the past 16 years.)

Burris officially told, 'You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here."

"Everyone is basically pissed."

Well, it's not like any of them could have actually been wrong about anything, now could they?

I mean, each member of the right-whinge coalition holds the higher ground ideologically, so of course it's someone else's fault. Correct?

Reid isn't the only Senator sticking his nose into the MN election. Schumer and Cornyn can't get enough air time either.

grape_crush; it's just a matter of branding. Sheesh. The candidates for RNC chair aren't all basically exponents of the divisive Southern Strategy and appeals to "the real America," they're people with fresh ideas, like tax cuts for the wealthy and cutting entitlements. With so much excellence on hand it's no wonder that the RNC is having trouble picking just one.
Hearing their statements reminds me of Monty Python's "Spam" skit.

Patterson has said he won't appoint anyone until Hillary is confirmed. She also won't resign until then.

Thanks--forgot she hadn't resigned yet.

"Everyone is basically pissed."

Great! The Republican leadership is finally on the same page as the American people!

Being a Democrat isn't just about capitulating in a position of weakness. A true Democrat capitulates from a position of strength.

A Rethug pissing contest for the indefinite future would serve the best interests of the country well. May they all have weak bladders and incontinence.

"Everyone is basically pissed."

If you use "pissed" in its English slang meaning here, I think that probably pretty much describes the Republican right wing perfectly.

Star Trib reporting that the MN Sup Ct has rejected Coleman's appeal of the decisions on which absentees to count. Clears the way for Franken to be conditionally certified this afternoon; Coleman has 7 days to challenge, which he says he will do.

Interesting news out of Tennessee. Not that Frist isn't running (he's a has-bin now), but that Zach Wamp is. Wamp's another young up and comer in the House GOP and is now, like Adam Putnam (who quit his leadership post and looks likely to run statewide in FL in 2010), bugging out and looking elsewhere for his fortunes.

If nothing else, it's a state of how bad things are for the House GOP if guys like Wamp and Putnam, the supposed future of the party, are looking elsewhere. They must figure they're not getting the majority back anytime soon.

"With Frist out of the way, Rep. Zach Wamp (R) announced this morning that he will run for governor".

You ever heard Wamp being interviewed on TV? Only one dumber-sounding is his fellow Tennessee congressperson, Marsha Blackburn.

Obama's big tax cut, even if it be middle-class oriented: I think it's going to create too much debt unless offset, as it should be, with a substantial gas tax now that oil is low and we can take advantage to really move to other sources. We can't pass up the opportunity to finally do what should have been for decades!

Obama's big tax cut, even if it be middle-class oriented: I think it's going to create too much debt

The federal government -- due largely to the present economic crisis -- can all but borrow money for free right now, so too much debt isn't, IMO, a real issue. I'm more concerned that its going to be very hard for a tax cut to be as stimulative as an equal amount of well-targetted spending would be, so what we get for the debt is an issue.

I have an instinctive, brain stem, gut revulsion toward Al Franken; but then I felt that way about Hillary until Bush made her look good by comparison.