The National Republican Senatorial Committee has already started advertising against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada.

Good. This should make a primary challenge a lot easier, to have the other side paying for advertisements against him. Added bonus: This money would be wasted if the general election ends up being against someone else.

Frankly, I'd even accept a Republican in the seat if it got rid of Reid.

Have no idea why the NRSC wants to try to take Reid's seat. He's the best opposition leader they could hope for.

Carolyn Maloney.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) realizes that his new colleague, Kirsten Gillibrand, is known for having a record that's pretty conservative for a Democrat, but he's confident that "her views will evolve" as a senator.

And we should believe Shumer because he was sooo accurate when he assured everyone that Michael Mukasey would be an even-handed Attorney General who would restore the rule of law to the Justice Dept.

Carolyn Maloney and Carolyn McCarthy have both talked about running for Hillary's spot in 2010.

Well, since the voting machine source code is still not open to examination by the People or the Parties, and there is NO paper trail on the majority of the machines, and machines are used to count the vast majority of votes cast, and the Neofascist-republican party still has the machine manufacturers in their pack pockets (and vice-versa), I would be pretty confident in election outcomes too. Just because the cheating doesn't occur at a high and scandal producing level at every election, doesn't mean that cheating can't or won't occur now and in the future.
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"You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this —- who will count the votes, and how."

acquired from -- Boris Bazhanov's Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary

TPM is doing an good job of providing a one-stop source for news on the Minnesota Senate race court case.

Saying Coleman's legal strategy is off to a very bad start is an understatement.

I don't see a graceful way to use them all in a description, but the words debacle, embarrassment and mindboggling come to mind.

* The National Republican Senatorial Committee has already started advertising against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada.

It's not often I'd say this, but GO NRSC!!!

Romney just on MSNBC:

1. Long term tax cuts will cause businesses to invest. If they see people coming in to spend their stimulus check, they will not expand.

2. Infrastructure doesn't provide the short term boost in spending that we need to jump-start the economy. That is a long term investment, which we don't need.

I wonder if Schumer's will evolve towards gun rights.

There's a reason she won in a reddish-purple district. Many Democrats need a little more support from the party if we're to turn western states solid blue.

Talk of pressuring Gillibrand is ill-advised.

Seriously, folks. After 8 years of President Cheney, is it so far-fetched to think our founding fathers thought gun rights for individuals outside of government control (well-regulated militia, regulated by whom???) was a good idea? Democrats need to rethink their reflexive views on the 2nd amendment for more reasons than one.

After the desperate work they did in 2000?

That was the sole reason behind the high water mark they hit in 2002.

Is this just pep talk or are they unfamiliar with teh level oif "screwed" they're about to achieve?

This is about to be one wicked swing of teh pendulum barring a political disaster by Obama.

In Texas, top Tom DeLay ally Craddick is OUT as Texas House Speaker, and the GOP holds only a one-vote House majority. Combine that with Kay Bailey Hutchison still planning on challenging Rick Perry, and things aren't quite so one-sided in the Lone Star State.

And, contra the Hill, I think Texas Democrats will unite early behind a good prospective candidate, such as Houston Mayor Bill White, as opposed to 2006, where the independent candidate siren song of Carole Rylander lured too many Democrats away, early on, from the (admittedly uninspiring) Chris Bell.