The arrogance and conceit of Nebraska Republicans is really quite disturbing sometimes. Asked if he could beat Bob Kerrey in a general election, Bruning responded that yes, of course he could, because “I don’t believe Nebraskans want another carpetbagger,” and “his record would be so easy to assail.”
That’s a record, by the way, that starts [...]
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If Jon Bruning believes that he can simply dismiss all of his potential opponents as “carpetbaggers,” he might want to think again. He made the accusation about Hagel, who maintains a home in Virginia, and then later about Bob Kerrey, who has spent the last six years as President of The New School in New [...]
Apparently, judging by Jon Bruning’s rhetoric lately, and his meeting with the New York Sun’s editorial staff to tip the off to his impending announcement, he’s made a calculated decision that his campaign is going to be all about running against Chuck Hagel. It’s a calculated gamble on Bruning’s part. For one thing, we’re not [...]
Well, it looks like Jon Bruning’s going to officially announce his candidacy for U.S. Senate on Thursday, making him the first officially announced candidate for the Nebraska Senate race in 2008.
My read of the situation is this: The longer Chuck Hagel waits to get into this race, the less support he’s going to have. His [...]
For someone who has deemed earmark rules too confusing to bother with, shirking his responsibility to his district on a regular basis, and despite his own involvement in pork projects, Lee Terry certainly talks a lot about ethics reform. Even though he voted against some of those reforms in January.
With the news of indictments against [...]
The missile defense shield is one of the most insanely idiotic ideas to ever come out of a Republican administration – a relic from the Reagan administration, a pipe dream that doesn’t really work, but gives billions of dollars to defense contractors to try anyway.
This administration has done its best to convince us that the [...]
Turning our rhetorical guns back on the bad guys…
John Judis has a profile of Chuck Hagel in TNR this week (available here, free registration required). It’s mostly your standard profile of Hagel, but there’s some good stuff toward the end about Hagel’s state of mind right now.
Two months later, Hagel appears to have concluded [...]
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