The Miami Herald has posted George LeMieux’s Senate application form, and it answers a number of questions. First off, the Republican Party of Florida has in fact paid LeMieux $150,000 as a consultant for the past 13 months. The money has been paid to LeMieux’s consulting firm, MTC Strategies.
When I asked RPOF press secretary Katie [...]

Watching CNN’s video (via Steve Benen) of Sen. Tom Coburn’s absurd response to a woman’s desperate pleas for help for her ailing husband got me thinking.
Isn’t Coburn - a government bureacrat and practicing doctor - the epitome of everything we’re being told we should fear? How can he of all people claim the government shouldn’t [...]

Last week, Chris Christie thought it was unfair that Gov. Jon Corzine would attack him for failing to disclose a $46,000 loan he had given to a former colleague, because Corzine was previously dogged by a similar situation.
Yesterday, Christie issued a press release attacking Corzine’s tenure as CEO of Goldman Sachs, a part of his [...]

Markos looks at the findings of a Research 2000/Dailykos survey of Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper’s Tennessee district, with a focus on health care, and concludes that it’s time to “cue up a primary challenger.”
Cooper fired back: “Private polls are inherently inaccurate, and most people disregard them. He who pays the piper calls the tune, and [...]

Gov. Charlie Crist cannot seriously be considering the appointment of George LeMieux to the Senate seat vacated by Mel Martinez. Such a move would undoubtedly bring new scrutiny to LeMieux’s improper business dealings with the state that Crist, despite his supreme confidence in his own invincibility, cannot afford.
No one has profited off of the Crist [...]

Jim Towey, who once authored a commentary entitled “Why I’ll Miss President Bush,” writes in the WSJ that, under President Obama, the Department of Veterans Affairs has started advocating again an end-of-life planning document called “Your Life, Your Choices” which, to cut costs, tries to convince veterans that they don’t want to live anymore. Which [...]

Liberals are mad at Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) for crafting health care legislation in the Senate Finance Committee that does not include a public option. Liberals are also mad at Baucus for refusing to cut Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) out of the Gang of Six’s negotiations, even after Grassley called President Obama and House Speaker [...]

Jed Lewison digs up video from February of Max Baucus inadvertently making the argument against a government mandate by stating that insurers are willing to stop discriminating against Americans who get sick so long as they’re rewarded with 46 million new customers who have no choice but to buy their product:
“You talk to large insurance [...]

Chris Christie is having a bad week. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that Christie failed to report the $46,000 loan he gave to one of his top aides while he was a U.S. attorney, as required under federal and state ethics rules, and has not listed the loan in any of his personal financial [...]

House Minority Leader John Boehner deserves some applause for the letter he wrote to PhRMA CEO Billy Tauzin urging PhRMA to pull out of its deal with the White House to support health care reform and find billions in savings in exchange for the disclusion of any sort of provision that would allow the government [...]