Operation Steadfast Backflip Sen. John McCain was on the Sunday news programs this weekend because OF COURSE HE WAS; this time it was to talk about Ebola and to engage that most time-honored of Republican talking point gymnastics, the backwards 180-degree flip with righthand trunk spin. Stick the landing, fella. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on […]

The Republican fetish with starving government has helped land West Africa in an Ebola crisis. The director of the National Institutes of Health made that clear when he told Huffington Post that steep budget cuts by Congress has set back the institute’s work on both prevention and treatment for the disease and that if it […]

Georgia Republican David Perdue may claim he doesn’t need to defend his outsourcing past because he’s “proud of it”—but apparently he doesn’t feel the same pride over a stint working for an Indian chemical textile company. Perdue’s stint as a senior consultant for Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Ltd. has been removed from his bio at Perdue […]

You are suppprting these GOTV efforts. Latest poll out of South Dakota is showing what everyone else is showing—a three-way tossup. In this case, it’s Mike Rounds (R) 37, Rick Weiland (D) 33, Larry Pressler (I) 23. Republicans last week were pretending to be unconcerned about the race, then they dropped $1M into the race. […]

Iowa Republican Joni Ernst’s undying fealty to the Kochs might just be turning around to bite her in the ass. Case in point, this weekend’s debate and her need to defend her call to abolish the EPA, a position that could provide great economic boon to the Koch brothers. DAVENPORT, Iowa — Republican Joni Ernst […]

Much has been written about 17-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, and hopefully much will be for as long as people are writing. But her greatness is summarized in one seemingly small story, from a year ago: The teenager who became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize Friday told President Barack […]

Democratic nominee Bruce Braley (right) with his would-be predecessor Sen. Tom Harkin. On Saturday a new Selzer & Associates poll on behalf of the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics confirmed what almost every pollster has been saying for months: We have a close race in Iowa for U.S. Senate. Selzer’s new numbers give Republican […]

Avoid the lines and vote early This is it: We have entered voting season. More than three weeks remain until Election Day, but as of Sunday evening about 654,407 people had cast their votes nationwide and millions more had requested absentee ballots. The two states that have seen the most action for now are Iowa […]

Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK) Republican dark-money groups are pouring millions of dollars into defeating Alaska Democratic Sen. Mark Begich, but unions are fighting back, trying to re-elect Begich. The tactics are different, though. Unions have put some money into ads supporting Begich or going after his Republican opponent, Dan Sullivan: The political action committee affiliated […]

Larry Kessler, just another Beltway deficit peacock. Larry Pressler might be trying to get some mileage and Democratic credibility by saying he voted for President Obama and is his “friend,” be he sure as hell sounds a lot like a Republican. Exhibit A: He’s a member of “Fix the Debt,” the latest incarnation of Catfood […]