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Rep. Paul Ryan, the fast-talking, number-crunching Republican from Wisconsin, caused a stir last week when he called out his own party for not offering Americans a substantive alternative to Democrats in this fall’s elections. (more)

For months, the conventional wisdom has been that Democrats’ best hope of holding the House rests on two things: the long time they’ve had to prepare for a wave election, unlike in 1994, and the money advantage they’ve accumulated due to fumbling at the Republican National Committee and House Republican fundraising arm. (more)

UPDATE: Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson has canceled her appearance at a Democrat fundraiser hours after Politico published a story detailing that engagement. (more)

National Democrats moved quickly Wednesday to try to marginalize the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, Rand Paul, characterizing the Tea Party favorite as an out-of-touch, elitist and selfish conservative. (more)

The Center for Competitive Politics has made it no secret that we think a campaign finance bill written behind closed doors by the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the past chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee—and a President facing a re-election campaign in 2012—might not really be about good government, as they claim. (more)

Mike Tyson was the best man in his wedding. Former madam Heidi Fleiss once lived in his house. And now, depending on what Gov. Charlie Crist decides to do later this week, he could be the man who allows Democrats to pick up a seat in the soap-opera saga that is the Florida Senate race. (more)

The Great Bloodbath of 2010 hasn’t even started, and already the seers are casting bones and burning rat tails with a glass eye towards 2012. From CQ: (more)

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has been campaigning on credit, while the Republican National Committee broke even in the past year. (more)

“Do you think President Obama is a socialist?” The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee wants every Republican candidate for Congress this year to be asked that question. Their hope: To brand those who answer “yes” as an extremist or a kook. (more)

“National Dems failed to aid Coakley until too late,” read the headline of a memo seeking to shift blame away from the Martha Coakley campaign and onto Washington. That such a memo was prepared is not altogether surprising. That the campaign was willing to send such a memo in the final hours of the election, however, suggests Democrats knew Coakley’s stunning loss was fait d’accompli and are poised to spend the next 11 months pointing fingers at each other. (more)

Republican Scott Brown says he’s under digital assault from “the liberal special interests that have flooded Massachusetts,” groups that are spending more than $2 million on radio and television ad buys against him. (more)

A new ad from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee uses an unlikely symbol of Wall Street greed: The World Trade Center. (more)

National Democrats punched hard at Scott Brown this week. They missed. (more)

Even experienced political observers are slightly incredulous at what has happened over the past week in Massachusetts: a Republican state senator most well known for posing nude in Cosmo 28 years ago and for his daughter’s appearance on “American Idol” is within striking distance of taking Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat – and possibly health-care reform – from the Democrats. (more)

Most of the 16,000 contributors who are responsible for Republican Scott Brown banking $1.3 million in campaign bucks on Monday for his Massachusetts Senate campaign came from grass roots donors averaging $77.89 a donation, his campaign said. (more)

The bloody-knuckled brawl this year over whether President Obama is bringing back jobs will go a long way toward deciding whether Democrats in Congress retain their hold on power past this year’s midterm elections. At this point, according to economists, it’s a fight that is stacked against the White House. (more)