Jamelle Bouie

This Kansas City Star piece on racism within the Tea Party is worth reading, if only because it is filled with incredible quotes. For example: Take Ron Wight, who stood with dozens of tea party activists at the J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain in April, complaining about the Obama administration, its socialist agenda and being called […]

Yesterday, Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson told Politico he wouldn’t support a procedural vote to begin debate on a climate bill that includes a cap on utility emissions: “A carbon tax or trade piece would significantly increase the utility rates in Nebraska for businesses, agriculture and individuals,” the Nebraska Democrat told POLITICO. “I don’t think that’s […]

Despite the fact that I have opinions on these things, I haven’t been particularly inspired to comment on the NAACP’s resolution denouncing “racist” rhetoric from the Tea Party and asking Tea Party leaders to repudiate the movement’s “racist elements.” For starters, others have done the good work of corroborating the substance of accusation, as well […]

Jonathan Zasloff is frustrated with Senate Democrats over their failure to pass a jobs bill by any means necessary and angry with President Obama for his failure to speak up: It would be really nice if the President would knock some heads together on this. But on this page, apparently I’m not allowed to criticize […]

Generally, Republicans have been pretty enthusiastic about the fact that voters aren’t too hot on President Obama or the Democratic Party. But they also tend to confuse voter disapproval of Obama for voter approval of Republicans. Of course, the fact is that voters don’t particularly like Republicans, either. In a new poll, Public Policy Polling […]

Like most Republicans, Florida Senate hopeful Marco Rubio has taken to attacking President Obama on debt and deficits. Rubio hit Obama on the deficit in a June interview with Newsmax, and on the “Cutting Government Spending” section of his website, Rubio promised to support measures that would “control the excessive and wasteful spending in Washington […]

Adam Serwer mentioned this on his blog, but today, President Obama endorsed Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen. Cohen is the only white U.S. House member to represent a majority-black district and has been the target of race-based attacks from challengers. In 2008, former Harold Ford aide Nikki Tinker tried to race-bait her way to a primary […]

(Flickr/sskennel) CNN reports that Democrats plan to deploy former President Bill Clinton at every opportunity as midterm campaigning ramps up and Democrats seek to build momentum in swing states where President Obama isn’t particularly popular. Already, Democratic strategists plan to use Clinton in his home state of Arkansas, where Sen. Blanche Lincoln faces a tough […]

An interesting find from The New York Times‘ Peter Baker: The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether the House of Representatives should be enlarged to produce a fairer distribution of political power. … A group of voters appealed to the court after a special three-judge panel in Mississippi last week rejected their lawsuit […]

Alabama congressional candidate Rick Barber first entered the national spotlight last month, after releasing an ad called “Gather Your Armies,” which included a fantasy conversation with the Founding Fathers and an explicit call for violent revolt. A few weeks later, he went viral with a second ad that featured, among other things, a zombified Abraham […]