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A Ripe Time For Florida's Marco Rubio
Leading national Republicans rushed to endorse Crist. In tennis, such decisions are called unforced errors. Continue reading
Ted Kennedy's Last Will and Testament
Welcome to the banana commonwealth of Massachusetts, where more than fifty years of one-party dominance has fostered a make-up-the-rules-as-you-go-along mentality among those who make the rules. Continue reading
Rubio It's You
If Republicans wish to be a party with a purpose, one that seriously opposes the leftward rush of our rookie president and his merry band, Mitch McConnell will not be quick to say, “Come on back, all is forgiven.” Now there’s at least a chance that Florida will not be replacing Arlen with another Senate RINO after the 2010 election. Last Wednesday, Marco Rubio, a 37-year-old, Cuban-American lawyer from Miami and a former speaker of the Florida House, declared he will be running for the U.S. Senate seat that Republican Mel Martinez will relinquish when his term ends next year. Continue reading
Reagan Defeats Specter
Yesterday, staring at polls that had him losing a Republican primary to his 2004 rival former Congressman Pat Toomey, Specter did just that. Stunning the political world in both Pennsylvania and Washington, Specter became a Democrat. There’s more to all of this that is perhaps not obvious to those outside Pennsylvania. Here’s a Reagan-Specter story never told before. Continue reading
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Paved With Renewable Mandates
Highly informed sources (don’t you love that phrase) tell us that Senate majority leader Harry “Hands-Off-Yucca-Mountain” Reid will be pushing for the Senate to adopt a national renewable energy portfolio within the next two weeks. Continue reading
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Tagged energy, nuclear power, renewable energy, science, senate, unfunded mandates
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Message from Georgia: This Too Shall Pass
Welcome to open-field politics. By Michael Barone The world doesn’t stand still. Case in point: the Georgia runoff election last week made necessary because Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss failed, barely, to win an absolute majority on Nov. 4. In that … Continue reading
