Sam Rosenfeld

I ONLY READ IT FOR THE BLOG RECOMMENDATIONS. Week in and week out here at Tapped, I’ve thought to myself, why isn’t Playboy magazine giving us the props we deserve? At long last the injustice has come to an end, as the magazine counts us among their top ten political blogs: In all seriousness this […]

ACTUAL JOEMENTUM. Ah, folks? You folks in Connecticut?. This poll is really bad news for you. (And there’s even worse news elsewhere.) It’s not fatal — not with Weepin’ Joe Lieberman (I-Green Room) fastening that part of his hindquarters not glued to the Iraq War to the survival of that legislative titan, Dennis Hastert. This […]

DOW HYPE. Paul Krugman takes a swing at both Wal-Mart’s move to shift more of their workforce to part time and the NLRB’s new, heinous decision revoking the organizing rights of millions of low-wage “supervisors” in his column today; but his opening graph concerns the Dow and echoes what Ezra said earlier in the week. […]

A MILLION LITTLE PIECES. The Hill has a slew of story-advancing short pieces on Foleygate today: A report on the truly severe rifts emerging within the House GOP leadership; a story documenting a push by Deborah Pryce, a member of that leadership team who’s also facing a serious reelection fight, for a new angle of […]

WON’T LAST THE DAY. That’s what Bay Buchanan was saying yesterday afternoon on CNN about the fate of House Speaker Dennis Hastertin response to the latest development in the Mark Foley scandal — the one in which Kirk Fordham, Foley’s former chief of staff, claims he brought, three years ago, Foley‘s predatory behavior with pages […]

THE REAL CULPRIT. I’m truly going to miss the old girl when she loses by a couple of miles in November. Perhaps in gratitude to Mark Foley for declining to run for the Senate, thereby enabling her to put together the most singular combination of incompetence and public nutbaggery in the history of American electoral […]

COMMAS. Once again, the president has been gifted with a new turn of phrase and he’s taking it on the road with him. On Tuesday, talking about the war in Iraq, he told an audience in California: You know, it must seem like an eternity to you, when you think about those elections last December. […]

GREEN OUT. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has shot down the GOP-funded useful idiot Green Senate candidacy. –Sam Rosenfeld

FOLEY FALLOUT. You can see it in the way that salacious scandals in unrelated races are resurfacing in Foleygate’s wake. As Eve Fairbanks has been noting, Pennsylvania’s Don Sherwood has been dogged by allegations of choking his Peruvian mistress, but the scandal had remained mainly as subtext in his heated reelection fight — until now. […]

SPEAKER BOEHNER. Via Josh Marshall, check out this article reporting that Dennis Haster may “have just one or two days to turn the affair around — or quiet it — or face being forced to step aside.” Assuming the latter development for a moment, what would happen next? In the event of Hastert’s resignation, John […]