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Subscribe to RSSThe Boston Globe's Milligan looks at how the oil spill is playing out as a campaign issue across the country: "The BP oil disaster has seeped into congressional campaigns in states far from the Gulf Coast, as voters and candidates clash over the future of energy exploration and the relationship between government and the industries it regulates. In some districts and states, the spill has reignited a debate over oil drilling and other energy issues, with candidates weighing local job creation against environmental protection. In other areas, the Tea Party movement’s push against big government is being parried by Democrats, who see in the oil-soaked pelicans and grieving families of 11 dead workers from the oil blast justification for stricter oversight."
COLORADO: “Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday split from national party leaders by throwing his support to former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff who is challenging appointed Senator Michael Bennet in Colorado's Democratic primary,” CQ writes.
The AP on the Republican race: "In a dingy, wood-paneled restaurant with a $9 pizza buffet, Ken Buck is waging the latest fight with a Republican Party establishment that favors candidates with shinier political pedigrees… A Princeton-educated lawyer, Buck moved west after college, attended law school in Wyoming and served as a prosecutor for the U.S. attorney's office in Denver before becoming district attorney of Weld County. Conservatives started noticing when he tried to arrest illegal immigrants in 2008."
IDAHO: “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce praised Rep. Walt Minnick (D) as a champion for Idaho’s businesses and workers in an endorsement announcement Tuesday morning,” Roll Call writes.
KANSAS: “Todd Tiahrt's U.S. Senate campaign today announced that talk radio and Fox News personality, Sean Hannity, has endorsed his campaign,” the Kiowa County Signal wrote. Hannity endorsed Tiahrt on his show on Friday, after Sarah Palin endorsed him on Thursday.
MASSACHUSETTS: "Three candidates for governor expressed sharp differences last night over global warming, the Cape Wind project, and the cleanliness of the state’s parks at a gubernatorial forum dedicated to environmental issues," the Boston Globe writes.
MICHIGAN: Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero and House Speaker Andy Dillon traded more blows in their final Democratic gubernatorial debate Monday night [which aired yesterday], saying the other has bungled his current job and doesn't deserve higher office,” The Detroit News reported.
NEVADA: “In her first mainstream media interview since winning the Republican nomination in the U.S. Senate race, former Assemblywoman Sharron Angle softened her rhetoric on ‘phasing out’ Social Security and fearing the electorate would take up arms if conservatives didn’t win at the ballot box,” the Las Vegas Sun writes.
TEXAS: “Polls show he’s already competitive, but Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill White said his odds of knocking off two-term Texas Gov. Rick Perry might even be greater if President Obama had exhibited more fiscal restraint during his first 18 months in office,” Politico reported. “White’s comments reflect the distance he’s willing to carve out between himself and a president from his own party.”
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I love how the Republicans are taken aback by the fact that the Democrats have FINALLY taken a page out of the right wing handbook and are hitting back the way the right has attacked us for years now. All we need to do is play file footage of the speeches given by these people and the electorate (at least those that are not totally blinded by the rhetoric) can plainly see who these people are attached to.
I cannot wait to see how the numbers play out all summer as we approach the day of reckoning in November. I believe this will be a historic midterm, but not for the reasons the Republicans are expecting. :)
Will you be showing the video of Biden calling that shop owner a jackass a few days ago? Will be you showing the video of Obama saying he'd kick ass? Will you be showing the video of the admin's view that they'd "keep a boot on their neck" referencing BP? Will be showing the video of Biden saying the "f" word at the signing of the health care bill? Will you be showing the videos of Obama bowing to foreign leaders? And, just think, none of these even refer to the things said about policy content!
Don't like playing tit for tat, Disgusted. I don't like it. But, just wanted to demonstrate that for every ugly Rep video you show, there's a Dem one to match it. Be careful what you wish for, Disgusted, because you just might get it.
Ugly politics goes ways, on both sides! Frankly, I think the political games are sick
Thanks BP Oil for giving us Democrats a great campaign issue of not being able to trust private industry to do it's business without trashing the environment and killing millions of jobs. Yep going to be lots of great ads for Democrats with all those pictures of dead oil slimed wildlife and trashed wetlands with the swamp grass covered in thick ugly oil. Drill Baby Drill will be drowned out by Spill Baby Spill.
Hey Dirt,
All I did was say I hope the Democrats play the FILE FOOTAGE of the ACTUAL STATEMENTS delivered from the mouths of your heroes. I would not have a problem at all with showing video of the Veep. I also have no issues with the President looking for someone's ass to kick over the Gulf spill.
Unlike you and those that have their lips firmly planted on the exhaust pipe of BP, most people in this country (and ESPECIALLY those directly impacted by this disaster) want and EXPECT the President to hold BP accountable.
We can play the video of the President saying he wants to "kick ass" and that he will "keep a boot on the neck of BP" to be quickly followed by Joe Barton's apology to Tony Hayward. I am confident that the American people can distinguish who is on the side of the American people and who are beholden to big industry.
As for the Veep using the "F" word, I am not sure about you, but I agree it WAS a BFD to FINALLY get HCR through the congress. Presidents have been attempting to do this for over 50 years. I, and the rest of America that believe we DO need to reform the system, are thankful for Obama's efforts and DO consider it a BFD. The "little people" in America cannot pay to access the same level of medical care that those who are well off are able to make use of. It will be an even BIGGER deal when we finally move to single payer and do it the correct way like the rest of the industrialized free world that spend orders of magnitude less than the US on medical care.
We can also show the footage of Obama bowing to foreign leaders to be quickly followed up by the videos of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld all wearing traditional Saudi robes and, Heaven forbid!, bowing and HUGGING the princes! OMG! How could this have happened? Oh yeah, routine cultural concessions and bowing to protocols in an international arena. I know it is not as sexy as the manipulations and twisting that your side usually is responsible for, but this time it looks like the Democrats will be fighting fire with fire and I, for one, could not be happier!
Tit for tat Dirt. Nothing but policy and direct responses to your "points." Do you really want to get into this tit for tat battle? I am ready willing and able to engage if YOU are. :)
Disastocrats-- There is Disaster in the Golf
Hey Eric, From Salinsanity, I have a new name for you and the DINOS: 'Disastocrats" Tell your Oilbama to keep on playing gulf.