From The Roots

After more than a month of shunning the press, Sharron Angle has finally
come out of her shell to meet the media...and upon doing so, promptly
ran away.

Angle (who had been available only to media she viewed useful for
fundraising purposes) finally invited reporters to a campaign event, her
first major availability since her primary victory.

Alas, the presence of reporters proved to be a bit too much for her:

In the warehouse of a family-owned clean diesel manufacturer in Sparks,
Angle delivered a three-minute speech on her desire to permanently
repeal the estate tax. When invited by the final speaker to stay and
answer a few questions, she turned on her heel and rushed out a back
door with a small cadre of staff members."

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08:21 PM Jul 22, 2010 - 0 comments permalink

Senator Robert Menendez, Chairman of the DSCC, appeared on Meet The Press with David Gregory on Sunday.

Highlights from the interview follow, and you can watch the interview here:

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06:32 PM Jul 19, 2010 - 0 comments permalink

With the landmark financial regulatory reform bill having just passed the Senate, one of the nation’s most powerful Republicans is already seeking to repeal it.

Wall Street reform legislation provides strong consumer financial protections; brings the risky trading of derivatives, which helped trigger the crisis, into the light of day; provides the authority to wind down firms whose collapse would threaten the entire financial system; and ends taxpayer-funded bailouts.  

Yet the man who hopes to be the next Speaker of the House, Republican John Boehner, already wants to get rid of it:

"I think it ought to be repealed," said House Minority Leader John Boehner, in response to a question from TPMDC, at his weekly press conference this morning.

Evidently for John Boehner, shilling for the big banks takes precedence over protecting consumers and preventing financial crises.

So the question is, will Republican Senate candidates stand with Boehner in his call for repealing financial regulatory reform?

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05:32 PM Jul 15, 2010 - 0 comments permalink

Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak has gained eight points on Republican Pat Toomey since April and is now in a dead heat with former Wall Street derivatives trader and Congressman Pat Toomey, according to polling from Quinnipiac University.

Quinnipiac’s latest poll shows Sestak and Toomey both receiving 43% of the vote. In May, the poll showed Toomey with a two-point edge, and in April, Toomey sported an eight-point lead.

Apparently Pennsylvanians are increasingly less enamored of the prospect of putting Wall Street loyalist Pat Toomey in the Senate. Toomey’s loyalty to big banks and big corporations has already cost taxpayers millions of jobs and lined the pockets of his Wall Street friends; it seems Pennsylvania has had enough.

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06:14 PM Jul 14, 2010 - 0 comments permalink

Sharron Angle’s bizarre obsession with lemonade has been making a great deal of news lately, and not in a good way.

Angle’s evidently favorite metaphor – to “make lemonade out of lemons” – was first employed on the highly controversial issue of reprocessing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, a cause to which the majority of Nevadans are strenuously opposed.

Angle said Nevada should "make lemonade out of lemons" and consider turning Yucca Mountain into a reprocessing facility instead of a nuclear waste repository to spur the economy and create jobs.

She next trotted out her beloved metaphor in an even more shocking circumstance, during a June radio interview,  Angle suggested that teenage rape victims make “a lemon situation into lemonade” by carrying a pregnancy to term.

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07:02 PM Jul 13, 2010 - 0 comments permalink