Remember reading how CPAC had once snubbed Chris Christie and had welcomed him as some kind of conservative hero this year? Well, maybe John Boehner will be caught up in a big scandal one day that will make him a hero too, but he-- unlike Mitch McConnell-- was snubbed by CPAC this year.
In the last couple of cycles Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam, funneled $94,402,625 into U.S. political campaigns. Although some of it was wasted on crackpot fringe candidates like Shmuley Boteach, Miriam wrote 3 checks for $5,000,000 each on June 14, 2012, October 15, 2012 and October 19, 2012 to Romney's SuperPAC, Restore Our Future.
Watching this ad running in MI-11 (parts of Oakland and Wayne counties west and northwest of Detroit) you'd think the DCCC was getting ready to take back the district. Forget it! The ad is being run by a far right nut group, Freedom's Defense Fund. I'll get back to them in a second. First, the fighting 11th. When Obama ran in 2008, the 11th gave him a big win over McCain: he carried the 11th by 11 points; not a landslide but the kind of victory MI-11 was giving Democrats.
Authentic Miss McConnellTom Beaumont penned a widely distributed story for the A.P. today about the increasing challenges facing those who are trying to reform the Republican Party from within.
This afternoon, Paul Ryan voted NO on the paying for the bills he's run up as a Member of Congress. Most of the rest of the Republican House leadership team-- Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, even radicals like Darrell Issa and Gary Miller-- voted YES, to make sure the government didn't go into default. The clean debt ceiling passed yesterday 221-201.
Matt Bevin, the radical right's McConnell slayer?Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of Dreamworks Animation, is probably the most prodigious Democratic bundler in California. It was huge news when he backed Obama instead of Hillary in 2008. Today's news was that he's back on board with the Clintons.
Remember when Marco Rubio was going to help humanize the Republican Party by championing comprehensive immigration reform? That brief flirtation with fairness and putting the national interest first over backward partisan ideology, knocked him out of the Tea Party presidential sweepstakes. He's been backpedaling ever since.
