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I’m sorry, Kurt, but I just couldn’t do better justice dropping a general comment on Barney Frank here … THIS is the only response possible to his above remarks … Maggie/Drillanwr:

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The Rothenberg Political Report

We are still seven months until the midterm elections, so there is at least some possibility that the landscape could shift or that Democratic attacks on the GOP could keep Republican gains down to a minimum.

Substantial Republican gains are inevitable, with net Democratic losses now looking to be at least two dozen. At this point, GOP gains of 25-30 seats seem likely, though considerably larger gains in excess of 40 seats certainly seem possible.

We’ve moved 44 seats toward the Republicans and only 4 toward the Democrats.

Here are our latest House ratings.
#- Moved benefiting Democrats
* – Moved benefiting Republicans
Special Elections in italics  Read more...

The Hill

Republicans are preparing to raise points of order and other roadblocks to the healthcare bill, a member of the Senate GOP leadership said Tuesday evening.

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the fourth-ranking Senate Republican who serves as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, said the GOP is prepared for a number of scenarios in which they would seek to slow down or halt passage of healthcare legislation once it comes back before the Senate.

“I still think it creates a lot of problems when it comes back to the Senate because there will be lots of points of order that will lie against the bill in the Senate, and obviously, we will, hopefully, have the opportunity to raise some of those,” Thune said of the health bill during an appearance on Fox News.  Read more...

Dems’ Massachusetts loss clouds Pelosi’s future

Washington – — If the late Edward Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat isn’t safe for Democrats, is Nancy Pelosi’s speakership of the House safe?

The answer is yes, unless there’s a Republican landslide in November. Forty Democratic House members would have to lose their seats to topple the San Francisco Democrat from the third-highest elected job in the country, just two steps down from the presidency.

Even before a stunning Republican victory in Tuesday’s special election in Massachusetts rocked Democrats coast to coast a day before the anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration a year ago, political handicappers were forecasting potential House losses at just under 30 seats.  Read more...

President Obama takes the heat President Bush did not

By JOSH GERSTEIN – Politico

Eight years ago, a terrorist bomber’s attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner was thwarted by a group of passengers, an incident that revealed some gaping holes in airline security just a few months after the attacks of Sept. 11. But it was six days before President George W. Bush, then on vacation, made any public remarks about the so-called “shoe bomber,” Richard Reid, and there were virtually no complaints from the press or any opposition Democrats that his response was sluggish or inadequate.  Read more...

PRINCETON, NJ — Americans’ religious intensity continues to be a major predictor of party identification. A new analysis of more than 29,000 interviews Gallup conducted in November finds that Republicans outnumber Democrats by 12 percentage points among Americans who are classified as highly religious, while Democrats outnumber Republicans by 30 points among those who are not religious.

The current analysis is based on 29,192 interviews conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking during the month of November. Party identifiers include those who initially identify with one of the two major parties plus independents who, in a follow-up question, say they lean toward one party or the other.  Read more...

Man i like this guy!

Hey Tea Party participants. Listen up. Senator Jim DeMint says it’s time for, “some new republicans” to be elected to serve in the Senate.

DeMint spoke to The Brody File about what he wants to see happen in 2010. The junior Senator from South Carolina is a MAJOR player in the Tea Party movement due to the fact that he has been aggressively backing conservative type candidates against Republican establishment figures. For example, he’s backing Marco Rubio in Florida against Charlie Crist and Chuck DeVote in California instead of Carly Fiorina.  Read more...

Keep the tea party moving..its the only way to take this country back

Republican lawmakers are hoping to re-ignite the town hall fury that inflamed the health care debate and nearly derailed the legislation over the summer.

GOP representatives are holding town halls in the next two weeks to rally opposition to President Obama’s sweeping health care legislation that narrowly passed the House last weekend. A different version of the bill is now wending its way through the Senate.

“The legislative battle over health care reform is not over,” Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, wrote in a letter to members ahead of the Veterans Day break. Pence urged them to keep reaching out to constituents and host town hall meetings to highlight ways Republicans say the bill will hurt seniors, women and small businesses.  Read more...

Rasmussen

Republican candidates have stretched their lead over Democrats to six points in the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 43% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 37% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Republicans have held the lead for over four months now.

Voters not affiliated with either party continue to heavily favor Republicans, 43% to 20%.

Since late June, support for Republican candidates has ranged from 41% to 44%, while support for Democrats has run from 36% to 40%. Looking back one year ago, the two parties were in a much different place. Throughout the fall of 2008, support for Democratic congressional candidates ranged from 42% to 47%. Republican support ranged from 37% to 41%.  Read more...

Hey, you vote like a liberal, you get treated like one

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It looks like Olympia Snowe could have a pretty hard time getting nominated for another term in the Senate as a Republican.

There are now more folks in her party who disapprove than approve of Snowe’s job performance. 46% of GOP voters think she’s doing a bad job to 40% who give her good marks.

Snowe is still pretty popular with the liberal/moderate wing of her party, earning a 64% approval rating from them. But even in Maine 68% of Republicans are conservatives and they give her just a 29% approval rating with a 56% majority disapproving of her.  Read more...

Since being elected the first African-American RNC chairman, Michael Steele has gotten into some brief internecine spats for a number of bordering-on-insurgent quips against his party, but his latest might be destined to haunt him forever. And perhaps it’s another indication that his heart isn’t in the right place and that deep down he might think that he’s speaking for the wrong party, even.

During a weekend interview, Michael Steele told NewsOne’s Roland Martin that he has experienced fear from other selected members of his party because of the color of his skin.

“I mean I’ve been in the room and they’ve been scared of me,” the RNC chairman said about fellow Republicans.

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Rasmussen

Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters now say it is at least somewhat likely that Republicans will win control of Congress next year. But only 18% say it is very likely.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 37% think it’s unlikely the GOP will take majority control away from the Democrats. Just seven percent (7%) say it’s not at all likely. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure.

Fifty-two percent (52%) of all voters say Republicans are the party most likely to gain seats in Congress in next year’s mid-term elections. Thirty-two percent (32%) say Democrats will pick up seats. Sixteen percent (16%) are not sure.  Read more...

The Hill

Republicans will overwhelmingly reject the Democrats’ healthcare reform measure when it is reaches the House floor, according to a key lawmaker.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), who serves as deputy GOP whip, told The Hill that the number of Republicans supporting the sweeping legislation will be “very, very close to zero.”

“I don’t know of a Republican out there advocating it,” the lawmaker said.

Every House Republican rejected the Democrats’ stimulus bill earlier this year while eight GOP lawmakers backed the climate change measure that passed 219-212.

Three centrist GOP lawmakers have told The Hill that they will likely vote against the Democrats’ 1,990-page healthcare measure.  Read more...

LA Times

If there’s one thing liberal pundits are experts on these days, it’s the sorry state of conservatism. The airwaves and the Op-Ed pages brim with more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger lamentations on the GOP’s failure to get with President Obama’s program, the party’s inevitable demographic demise and its thralldom to the demonic deities of the right — Limbaugh, Beck, Palin.

Such sages as the New York Times’ Sam Tanenhaus and Frank Rich insist that the right is out of ideas. After all, the religious dogmatism and “market fundamentalism” of the Bush administration were entirely discredited, leaving the GOP with its intellectual cupboard bare.

“During the two terms of George W. Bush,” Tanenhaus declares in his latest book, “conservative ideas were not merely tested but also pursued with dogmatic fixity.”  Read more...