MILFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Scott Brown told a crowd of several hundred on Saturday that Connecticut voters can make history and shake up the Democratic establishment — just like when he was elected in Massachusetts — if they send Linda McMahon to Washington. (more)
NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Barney Frank slammed his Democratic primary challenger and former town hall foe for comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler during a debate Tuesday night. (more)
The White House warnings, which were reiterated by other leading US-based figures, played a key role in Mr Blair’s attempt to cling on to power until at least 2008, and to groom David Miliband as his successor, The Sunday Telegraph has been told. (more)
During a bipartisan education seminar for congressional interns last week, Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown told a crowd of young people that those who opposed the Democrats’ health-care reform plan were on the wrong side of history, much like segregationists who opposed the Civil Rights movement. (more)
US Senator Scott Brown, who only months ago was a little-known figure even within the tiny band of Republicans in the state Senate, not only catapulted to national stature with his upset US Senate victory, but is today the most popular officeholder in Massachusetts, according to a Boston Globe poll. (more)
LONDON – Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday called a long-awaited national election for May 6, launching what is likely to be the most unpredictable ballot in almost two decades. The opposition Conservatives and the third major party, the Liberal Democrats, took immediate aim at Mr. Browns’ controversial leadership qualities, seen by many pundits as a potential liability for the governing Labour Party. (more)
The lapdog congress, tailor to our imperial president, gave him a garment made of health care. Unfortunately, the expensive suit may come apart at the seams and he finds himself needful of new clothing material. So he decided foreign affairs are just the stuff. As a result, and because President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are leaders and statesmen in name only, American foreign policy is now in shambles on every continent. Why do the incompetents persist? (more)
Ten years ago, and presumably without any sense of risking fate, then-Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown declared he had exorcised boom and bust. Next week, Prime Minister Brown will end the phony political war Britain has been engulfed in for the past year and likely announce a general election. The election will be held in the midst of the most terrifying bust the country has experienced since the Jarrow March and the Great Depression. (more)
The campaign of Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) points to a fairly obscure blog to stoke fears that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is being recruited to oppose him. What’s the sourcing at the blog, Universal Hub? A tweet from state Democratic Party chairman John Walsh, which looks like a botched direct message to Maddow and reads (more)
In the aftermath of Scott Brown’s historic victory in Massachusetts, some observers were quick to ask a hard question: did pro-life organizations and individuals sell their souls in campaigning for Brown, a pro-choice Republican and supporter of Roe v. Wade? In other words, did political expediency trump ideological commitment for pro-lifers? (more)
Tea Party activists from across the country poured money into his campaign coffers and littered the blogs with pleas of support to Massachusetts voters for him. But Senator-elect Scott Brown, a Republican elected just two weeks ago to the U.S. Senate seat long-held by Ted Kennedy, does not give them all the credit for his victory. Barbara Walters, guest hosting ABC’s This Week pressed Brown on his thoughts on the grassroots movement that has claimed much credit for his win. “The Tea Party movement was important to your victory. How influential do you think the Tea Party movement is going to be?” Walters asked. Brown rejected her premise. “Well, you’re making an assumption that the Tea Party movement was influential, and I have to respectfully disagree. It was everybody. I had a plurality,” he said. “But it was part of it,” Walters responded. “Of course, it was,” he said. Brown — perhaps the Republican Party’s most popular for the moment — also refused to say whether he’d consider a run against President Barack Obama in 2012. “I have to tell you, I don’t even have a business card,” Brown said. “I haven’t even been sworn in. I don’t have any exploratory committees started. I don’t have any — anything — it’s — it’s overwhelming, and it’s extremely humbling.” (more)
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday President Barack Obama hopes to use his State of the Union message to “outline a hopeful track for our future.” (more)
Massachusetts Senator-Elect Scott Brown said Tuesday he is eager to sit down with President Barack Obama to discuss the message in last week’s special election in which he upset the Democrats and claimed the seat held by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. (more)
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says voters in Massachusetts sent the message that “our country is not working right,” and Congress needs to “turn [its] frustration into something productive.” (more)
The 2012 presidential election is years away, but there is already a growing crop of Republicans who are toying with the idea of seeking the GOP’s presidential nomination. (more)
Martha Coakley knows she let the Democrats down, that Ted Kennedy’s legacy and President Obama’s agenda are in jeopardy. (more)
I wake up today and, per usual, turn on Fox, do some e-mailing, and peruse the headlines online. It’s a Cinnamon Toast Crunch morning, which bodes well, but I realize I’m deep in the midst of Conan/Leno fatigue. Die, story, die. (more)
You won’t see TV Glenn Beck touch the things that Radio Glenn Beck sometimes says, as he edges toward Howard Stern levels of comedy and tone. (more)
Since the moment Republican senatorial candidate Scott Brown made Tuesday’s special election in Massachusetts a horse race, the reporting of his improbable ascent has been downright offensive. (more)
The son of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy says a Republican victory in the race for his father’s Senate seat is a sign that the American public is out for “blood.” (more)
