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Voting Rights Battles in the States Merit More Attention
Noting that interest in fighting voter suppression seems to have dropped off after the November elections, Abby Rapoport's "Five Voting Fights You'll Care About Come Election Time" at The American Prospect can help get you up to speed ... |
Brownstein: How 'Scandals' May Backfire on GOP
It's quite possible, writes Ronald Brownstein at The National Journal, that the Benghazi and I.R.S. 'scandals,' along with the Administration's seizure of journalists' phone records may serve the GOP cause of tying up Washington in investigations. But it's ... |
The Washington Post has a very solid editorial about the so-called "scandals" today. It's a damn shame that the Post's headline writers decided to seriously distort what it says.
The Washington Post has an editorial today that takes a clear stance on the deeply bogus nature of the current GOP attacks on Obama. The title - "Obama a new Nixon? Oh get serious" -- very accurately suggests ... |
Political Strategy Notes - Quick Plug Edition
The labor movement could use a little good news -- and they get it from Alana Semuel's L.A. Times article "White-collar workers are turning to labor unions."
cross-posted from the Carville-Greenberg Memo:
Several months ago, the GOP announced that it would begin a concerted outreach program to groups of voters, including women, who consistently vote for Democrats by large ... |
Hey, Mitch McConnell. Let me see if I got this right: "When the IRS hassles Tea Party groups, it's wrong. When they hassle the NAACP and environmental groups, it's OK"
Alex Seitz-Wald's "When the IRS targeted liberals" at Salon.com makes a couple of points that help to put the latest dust-up about the IRS targeting political groups in clearer perspective:
While few are defending the Internal Revenue Service for ... |
Kilgore: Village Media's Self-Parody Hits Overdrive
Ed Kilgore has a blast with inside-the-beltway media's self-importance in his Washington Monthly post, "D.C. to Obama: Don't Mess with this Town." Responding to a VandeHei/Allen almost gleeful Politico post claiming that 'the town' is turning against ... |
Cook: GOP's Benghazi, IRS Rants a Tough Sell with Public
Charlie Cook's National Journal post "While Republicans Rant About Benghazi and IRS, Public Mostly Yawns" puts GOP meme-mongering about the two 'scandals' in adult perspective:
... At this point, the significance of each is more in the eye of ... |
