Kerry appointment doesn’t necessarily mean Sen. Scott Brown, but it may. If it does then the Democratic party has some real problems if it structurally can’t build a political climate to rigorously recruit, primary it’s way to successful Senate candidates in a special election in blue Massachusetts. If a President-elect Romney nominated a Republican from a South [...]

Kerry appointment doesn’t necessarily mean Sen. Scott Brown, but it may

Senator Scott Brown made an odd request of Elizabeth Warren in the Massachusetts US Senate Debate: “Professor Warren, you have to stop scaring women” source: Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Elizabeth Warren / Scott Brown — Livestreaming Their First Debate. Seems Brown is the reaper trying to kill the messenger. On tons of women’s [...]

Scott Brown is ducking Elizabeth Warren
The debate was to be sponsored by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute and Vicki Kennedy is the president of the Institute. So there’s some notional logic to the demand. But c’mon. In the real world it’s irrelevant to anything to do with the debate. Media organizations would control the questions and the questioners. Brown’s really [...]

No Party for Liberal Majorities: S.J.Res. 25
Ben Nelson for a Scott Brown & Bob Corker.

On losing Feingold
I know this is late, but I am not the biggest fan of Russ Feingold the legislator. He is a Democrat who often chose being correct on the Senate floor over applying the correct leverage in the Senate back rooms. More recently, he’s done plenty of things that should have earned him more scorn from progressive activists. He [...]