Category: Rachel Maddow

{First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru.}

The always-resplendent Rachel Maddow lampoons Sinning Senator David Vitter's fear-mongering and misleading Louisiana voters on health care reform:

After watching Rachel's report on Vitter's dishonest scare tactics, wouldn't you like to see him lose his job?  You can help bounce the Sinning Senator from the U.S. Senate with a contribution to his Democratic opponent, Congressman Charlie Melancon, via the Expand the Map! ActBlue page.

Here's Senator Dorgan's first campaign ad for this election cycle. I'm generally not really interested in campaign ads that much, but there is something important to note in this one. Dorgan is taking credit(and he should) for the fact that our state is one of only 6 or 8(I'm looking for that number) that are in the black at the moment. I know plenty of people that are of the mindset that the state surplus is the result of the sound financial management of one John Hoeven. All of us know that such an argument is pure bullpuckey as Rachel Maddow would put it. The reality is that we have a powerful(probably the most powerful) congressional delegation that brings home the pork in the form of(for example) geological surveys that wind up finding the Bakken oil formation, and end up generating a lot of sales tax revenue for the State as a result(especially after an oil price shock). It would seem that Dorgan is preparing himself for a possible campaign against Hoeven. He knows that if the governor decides to run that now would be the time to do it, but he isn't sure if he has the ability to go against Dorgan and win. I have said to many people in person for some time that Hoeven would never win, but it isfairly apparent to me that Senator Dorgan isn't taking his chances and is ready to cut Hoeven off at the pass.