Independent’s Day?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 22nd, 2010 4:51 am by HL
Independent’s Day?
Remember all the media talk of Democratic Civil Wars in Connecticut in 2006? Well, guess where such things wont’ be said about Republicans in 2010 as it actually happens?
Cock-a-doodle-Duds
Well, many folks have been saying this for sometime, the Great Orange Satan from his great orange lair comes to mind, but it is being reported Charlie Christ is about to go all ‘independent’ down in Florida.
Reliable sources informed me today that embattled Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, whose early lead in his US Senate Republican primary race against former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio has essentially reversed itself in the polls, is preparing to announce sooner rather than later that he will leave the GOP and continue his run for Senate as an independent.
Leaving Marco Rubio to surround himself with a crazier GOP base (and a few Internal Revenue agents). With his Party credit card being put on hold, I understand that Rubio is attempting to buy Crist off the new/old fangled, Republican-way — and that’s going to take a KFC-sized load of chickens (maybe a few of those new non-sandwiches too).
Maybe Kendrick Meek will toss in a few to help Charlie fly the coop?
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Early Morning Swim: Chris Hayes Explains Why the GOP Folded on FinReg
Is our Democrats learning?
Within 48 hours, the Republican line on financial regulatory reform went from “filibuster” to “we’re very close to a deal.” Why the shift? Republicans and Democrats will offer up spin all day, chalking up the progress to their own doggedness, but in the end it comes down to a simple reality. Key Republicans, sincere about passing new rules for Wall Street, but intimidated by the notion of blocking financial regulatory reform, let it be known to their leadership that, at some point, they would side with Democrats to break a filibuster. Maybe not on round one, or even round two. But eventually.
Funny what happens when you don’t make tons of concessions in advance.
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