“Maine” on The Daily Caller

BANGOR, Maine — Guess who’s coming to dinner? (more)

Ever since the birth and subsequent ascension of the Tea Party movement, the so-called mainstream press and their allies in the Democratic Party have pulled no punches in the racial-smear playbook. And as the Democratic-statist agenda has met ever-increasing public backlash, such smears have taken place almost daily. (more)

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage told a group of fishermen at a GOP forum that he won’t be afraid to tell President Barack Obama to “go to hell.” (more)

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has notified customers that it will drop its Medicare Advantage health insurance program at the end of the year, forcing 22,000 senior citizens in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine to seek alternative supplemental coverage. (more)

Maine Watchdog recently posted a video of Maine Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree disembarking from a private jet owned by her boyfriend S. Donald Sussman’s hedge fund. While some may simply be inclined to just submit to jealousy while admiring her pragmatic taste in men, if Maine Watchdog’s allegations prove true, Pingree may have not only acted hypocritically, but violated House rules. (more)

While Nancy Pelosi can probably pass whatever she wants in the House—she’s already written the Blue Dogs off as losers in November—the real tax action this fall will be in the Senate. That’s where Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is working to gather enough votes to block a tax increase on capital gains, dividends and anyone making more than $200,000 a year. (more)

The Tea Party effect may have hit Maine’s sometimes-liberal Republican Senator Olympia Snowe on Friday as a new Public Policy Polling poll suggested she might have to consider running as a Democrat in 2012 if she wants to keep her job – something that conservative Scott D’Amboise, who announced his candidacy back in February, is jumping at. (more)

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), one of the nation’s largest trade associations, launched a multi-state campaign Wednesday to oppose increasing energy taxes. (more)

WASHINGTON — Tony Podesta is one of the best-connected rainmakers in the nation’s capital, with a web of personal contacts stretching back 42 years and six Democratic presidential candidates. His brother John was Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff and an adviser on President Barack Obama’s transition team. (more)

Watch out, Wall Street.  Back off, Big Oil.  You’re getting muscled off the top of “Government’s Most Wanted” list by a pair of tycoons on opposite ends of the country, and they’re doing it all before bedtime. (more)

Sacrifice is something that many Americans are becoming all too familiar with during this economic downturn. It was a key theme in President Obama’s inaugural address to the nation, and he’s referenced it numerous times when lecturing the country on how to get back on its feet. (more)

A $26 billion measure to help states and local school boards with their severe budget problems faces a make-or-break vote Wednesday as Senate Democrats try one last time to advance their faltering jobs agenda. (more)

Judge Susan Bolton ruled on the federal government’s motion to enjoin enforcement of the Arizona immigration law, commonly known as S.B. 1070.  She split the baby — most of the law will still go into effect, but its most controversial provisions will be enjoined.  She concluded that these controversial provisions are likely to be preempted by federal law. (more)

Moderate Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, just told reporters she will not support proceeding with debate on a campaign finance bill, known as the DISCLOSE Act, a move that signals the end of the road for this legislation for now. (more)

Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama on Monday criticized Republican opposition to a Senate campaign finance bill, calling it partisan gamesmanship that threatens to give special interests undue influence on U.S. elections. (more)

Journolist update: Liberals wished death on FOX News, Rush Limbaugh — Targets of Journolist respond with disproportionate maturity — Democrats will add billions to the deficit today — Maine solves the public pension problem (not really) — Umpteenth bad poll comes out showing Washington is getting a helluva makeover in November — The USDA’s disastrous image problem  (more)

Despite a near uprising within the conservative blogosphere, it turns out Bo, the White House dog, didn’t get his own plane for the family vacation.

President Obama’s trip to Bar Harbor, Maine did cost the small airport where the president landed hundreds of thousands of dollars in estimated lost revenue over the weekend, Hancock County Bar Harbor Airport Manager Allison Navia told The Daily Caller. She added, however, that it was typical of a presidential visit and they hoped to make up the lost funds with the publicity. (more)

Does anyone think there might be something suspicious behind the timing of President Obama’s quick family vacation to Maine this past weekend? (more)

Without stating her preference on the issue, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) cautioned Democratic lawmakers to carefully consider the economic repercussions of extending the middle-class tax cuts enacted by President George W. Bush and allow those benefiting wealthier taxpayers to expire. (more)

UPDATE – 7:20 P.M. – Sen. Olympia Snowe, Maine Republican, announced late Monday she will support the financial regulation bill, in what appears to guarantee passage of the measure into law. (more)