Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Today in the Washington Examiner July 28, 2010



Democratic candidates do indeed have a money advantage in many close races, and their campaign committee has more cash than its Republican counterpart.

All that said, this Democratic spin sounds a lot like the Republican spin back in the 2006 cycle. If the numbers don't change too much from 2004, Republicans said then, we can hold on. If the numbers don't change too much from 2008, Democrats think now, they can hold on.

But the Republicans, as George W. Bush said, took "a thumping" in 2006. And most signs suggest Democrats will take a thumping this year too.

Timothy P. Carney - K Street goes to the defense of Charlie Rangel

Who's ultimately paying Rangel's legal bills? Mostly corporate and union political action committees along with individual lobbyists. Over the past six months, PACs and lobbyists have accounted for a majority of the money Rangel's campaign has raised this year, not counting transfers from Rangel's other fundraising operations

With President Barack Obama’s poll numbers low and congressional Democrats’ ratings even lower, the idea of Republicans taking one or more houses of Congress is becoming a lot closer to reality.

The agenda of a hypothetical Republican congress is still a bit up in the air but one thing it ought to consider is a reevaluation of the economic policies which were put in place by the former Bush administration.

Susan Ferrechio - Governor Chris Christie visits Senate Republicans

New Jersey’s Republican Gov. Chris Christie was the featured speaker today at the GOP closed door lunch and talked about his efforts in New Jersey to balance the state budget without raising taxes.

Susan Ferrechio - Dems' climate bill ambitions on hold until elections
The scaled-down version of energy legislation Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced Tuesday is far from the comprehensive overhaul many Democrats had been hoping for.

So some lawmakers are setting their sights on the "lame duck" session in Congress following the November election as an opportunity to add provisions to the bill aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing the nation's energy consumption.
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