If you're just listening to the news cycle, McCain is done. The only question is how bad the fallout will be for the Republicans, and the Ted Stevens trial kind of pointed to another disastrous election for them. Like, really really bad. Picture two 1994s in a row, plus a slightly less than 1984 style route. All in the space of two years. Ow.
VoteVets is going after Saxby Chambliss with this ad. Look familiar?
"Obama trusts him, and he cares about policy," Carville said, adding that he stayed out of the Clinton administration because he wanted to make money, but that Axelrod's lucrative consulting practice had put him in a position to go to the White House. "The only people that go into government are either very young or very rich," Carville said.
That's super healthy for democracy!
Wayne Huizenga wants to sell the Dolphins before Obama raises his capital gains taxes. I'm a huge Dolphins fan, and I hate Huizenga's stewardship of the team, which was perpetually 7-9, 8-8, 9-7, or 10-6 throughout the 80s and 90s and 00s. If Obama gets this guy to sell, I'm sold on his Presidency.
Five straight quarters of losses and a 70 percent slide in its stock this year haven't stopped Merrill Lynch & Co. from allocating about $6.7 billion to pay bonuses.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, both still on track for profitable years, have set aside about $13 billion for bonuses after three quarters, down 28 percent from a year ago. Even some employees at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., which declared the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history last month, will get the same bonus they received a year ago.
The LA Times is laying off 75 more people. It used to be a very good paper.
Patrick Creadon of the ridiculous film IOUSA is shocked, shocked that someone might consider the whole 'let's gut entitlements' movement a sham.
Jim Marshall is having a tough time with his reelection. He'll be fine, but if he's not, alas, it couldn't have happened to a nicer Bush Dog. And Nick Lampson is going down. With Tim Mahoney added in there, that makes three Blue Dogs in trouble. Awww.
The Metro will randomly search people's bags. Security expert Bruce Schneier has pointed out that this was extremely dumb when they did it in New York. Of course that means it's coming to DC. Wheee!
This is a good quote from Darcy Burner in Roll Call.
"From my perspective, when they are breaking the law and then use that money to go up on television to say that I don't have a degree that I did in fact earn, do I think it's getting nasty? Absolutely. But not on our side," Burner said. "They will do anything to hold onto this seat, and they don't care about the law or the truth."
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Ensign (Nev.) said Monday afternoon that it was a "fair possibility" that Democrats could reach a filibuster-proof, 60-seat majority in the Senate on Nov. 4.
Speaking to Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC, Ensign seemed to upgrade the Senate Democrats' chances for widening their margins. Democrats currently hold a 51-49 majority in the chamber.
..."We would welcome Joe Lieberman. We welcome him with open arms," Ensign said.
It'll be interesting to see how the GOP rebuilds itself. I know Mitt Romney is positioning to be a wealthy GOP Daddy type who can restore the eastern elite credentials in 2012. We'll see, I suppose.
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