Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: PPP takes an early look at the 2013 Virginia governor’s race
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• VA-Gov: Public Policy Polling has a very early look at the 2013 gubernatorial race in Virginia, where Democrats would a...
Republican senators want to sell seniors on Medicare privatization
They're not senators, they're insurance salesmen.
You’re a Republican senator. How do you sell a plan to privatize Medicare?
One way is to fashion the massive overhaul as an extension of the private system members of Congress enjoy—the Federal Emp...
Rand Paul, and the new Ron Paul-Mitt Romney alliance
If you saw the debate last night, you saw Ron Paul join forces with Mitt Romney to relentlessly attack Rick Santorum. Paul's most recent ad (above), as well, focuses on Santorum, giving Romney a free pass.
So what's he thinking? It's not as if a Santo...
Sen. Rand Paul to make a federal case (literally) about his airport detainment
Sen. Rand Paul
(Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
One difference between being a senator and being the rest of us? If you get stopped by an airport security scanner, it's all part of the price for our Enhanced Security Nation. If an archconservative senator gets...
Herman Cain accuser wants to speak out, answering Rand Paul’s demands
The sweating has just begun for Herman Cain
(Jason Reed/Reuters)
Sen. Rand Paul is among those leaping to Herman Cain's defense, whining that it's just so hard to be a man these days because you just can't "tell a joke to a woman in the workplace, an...
Senate Republicans unveil ‘new jobs plan’ identical to all previous GOP ‘jobs plans’
McCain in an earlier interview. It's all the same crap.
With as much fanfare as could be mustered, which as it turns out is not all that much, Senate Republicans (in this instance, John McCain, Rand Paul and Rob Portman) have released their newest "j...
Senate Republicans unveil ‘new jobs plan’ identical to all previous GOP ‘jobs plans’
McCain in an earlier interview. It's all the same crap.
With as much fanfare as could be mustered, which as it turns out is not all that much, Senate Republicans (in this instance, John McCain, Rand Paul and Rob Portman) have released their newest "j...
Senate Republicans unveil ‘new jobs plan’ identical to all previous GOP ‘jobs plans’
McCain in an earlier interview. It's all the same crap.
With as much fanfare as could be mustered, which as it turns out is not all that much, Senate Republicans (in this instance, John McCain, Rand Paul and Rob Portman) have released their newest "j...
Palin joins Romney and Paul: You betcha corporations are people!
Think Progress is in Iowa, lucky us. They brought us the wisdom of Sen. Rand Paul earlier: "We're all corporations!" Now it's tea party icon and grifter extraordinaire Sarah Palin.
KEYES: Governor, are corporations people?
PALIN: The people pay the ta...
Rand Paul: ‘We’re all corporations’
ThinkProgress caught up with Sen. Rand Paul to find how what he thought about the Mitt Romney "corporations are people" assertion. In what come as a bit of a surprise to the grassroots element of his tea party constituency, he totally agrees with Mitte...
Boehner: At least 60 GOP House members won’t vote to raise debt ceiling
House Speaker John Boehner may or may not be smart enough to understand the consequences of a government default, but he can count.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) said Tuesday that more than 59 members of his caucus would not vote for any deb...
