Tagged onto an Adam Nagourney article about McCain jumping the shark in his attacks on Democrats who are trying to end the Iraq war is this potent note about the sorry state of John McCain’s presidential campaign:
The troubled presidential campaign of Senator McCain is eliminating some nonsenior staff positions and cutting some consultants’ contracts. The […]

Matt has argued that Senator Dodd’s platform combined with his elected office should allow him to put his legislation where his mouth is. Turns out, my coblogger might be right.
After twelve years in the wilderness, Dodd now chairs the Senate Banking Committee, holding sway over an important piece of the middle class crisis: debt. […]

New York City comptroller William Thompson has filed resolutions as a shareholder of Google and Yahoo demanding the companies craft policies that prevent them from assisting in internet censorship, particularly at the request of China. Thompson controls the New York City pension fund, which has large holdings of Google ($276 million) and Yahoo ($110 million) […]

This is interesting. Senator Chris Dodd is going to chair the Senate Banking Committee, a position that will give him significant input on the increase or rollback of regulations that prevent corporations from scamming their shareholders and employees through Enron-style accounting. David Sirota notes that despite Dodd’s dubious record in the 1990s as a champion […]

Cross posted at FireDogLake.
There has not been a Democrat elected to statewide office in Ohio since 1992, when John Glenn won his fourth term in the Senate. Glenn is also the last Democrat to defeat Mike DeWine in an election. Republican control of the Buckeye state’s senate seats, Republican control of the state house, and […]

Gas prices are falling. Elections are approaching. Energy bills have stalled. Three articles about falling gas prices came out today that do little more than report dull factoids, but reveal an important truth about our political system if read together. There is a movement afoot to protect Republicans and the oil-based […]

Peter Urban in the Connecticut Post (via TParty):
You’ve really got to give it up for President George Bush. Although he has struggled with exporting democracy to the Middle East, he’s had no trouble delivering it to sleepy Connecticut. All it took was a little kiss.
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Lieberman also did not foresee that an embrace exchanged with […]

Progressive States sent out an alert that the Republican minimum wage bill will drastically cut wages for up to a million workers who rely on tips. With this Congress it feels like I’m picking up the phone to call my representatives almost daily to complain about some horrible bill or another, and this one […]

I’ve fought against the idea that Ned Lamont’s personal wealth is the central issue in this race for longer than I care to remember. I’ve exhorted journalists covering the race to start writing stories about the issues as we get within mere hours of the primary. I’ve pleaded with them to drop millionaire lawyer Joe […]

This is brilliant. Here are today’s Letters to the Editor of the New York Times in response to their endorsement of successful entrepreneur Ned Lamont over millionaire lawyer Joe Lieberman. Notice that the two letters supporting the decision to endorse Lamont are from Connecticut and the one letter condemning that decision is from DC insider […]