I have to say that, as much as Mitt Romney may be underplaying it (”all I did was write him a check and say, ‘go get ‘em’”) the Scott Brown coup is making me look at Romney in a whole new light.
I met him once, at CPAC. I was dressed in business clothes, but I [...]

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I’ll file a preliminary report here, but please keep in mind that I’m sleep-blogging, and have been for days: I never made up the sleep I lost by staying up all night on Wednesday night. In fact, I think my sleep deficit has increased since then.
This is a Good Thing, since it saves me [...]

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It looks like the two parties may be running almost even in donations—looking at the national committees for each party, as well as the two Legislative organizations for each—but the Dems have a lot less cash on hand, and a lot more debt.
Revenues are coming in at actually only a little lower overall than during [...]

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The news cycle this past week has been largely devoted to the AIG bonuses. I understand the public anger, and I understand why politicians want to sound off. But $165 million is only, what?–about ten percent of the money taxpayers are forking over to AIG. And only tiny fraction of bailout money [...]

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Goldstein and Patterico. Hot Air. Hot oil. Good times. I do luvs me some wiry brunettes goin’ at it like that.
Okay, okay: As usual, I do think that Jeff is more correct on this issue than Patterico and Ace are (except for Ace’s “let’s move on” moments, which appear to be belied by his “let’s [...]

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It’s a twitter-ball; quite clever.
Smart Girl Politics is proud to announce that it will be hosting the 1st Annual SGP Twitterball on January 20, 2009 at 9:00 PM EST. Twitterball is a virtual party for the entire Conservative online community. We are very excited to share this news with all of our members. [...]

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He’s knocking hybrid cars, which I loves (though flex-fuel vehicles are even better—much, much better).
And he’s right: that ain’t a bathroom hall behind him. It’s brick, but painted with semi-gloss or something like that. That made it look like tile in previous vids; I think they’re working on the lighting a little, but they’ve still [...]

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