Panel included Easterbrook and Posner, two noted conservative judges.  Easterbrook wrote the decision.

I'd imagine the issue of incorporation of the 2nd Amendment against the states will find itself before the USSC before too long now that there's a split among the circuits.

Edwards is especially surprising.  He's in a R+18 district.  

He does deserve this.  The Senate appointment saga was really baffling.  It was almost as if Paterson believed that he should try to create some sort of soap opera-esque drama regarding who was going to get the seat.  

Um, where's the rest of the diagram?  I don't understand.  There's three random circles, and then a rectangle that appears to be blocking the circles from one another.

Sorta reminds me of McCain putting up the Walter Reed Middle School picture during the Republican Convention.  

If its tied to NY-20, I'd say he's likely to stay despite the repeated slip-ups.  The polls have Tedisco well ahead, even though he refused to say how he would vote on the stimulus (and refuses to comment to this day, I think).  

I suppose there's an argument that could be made that such a loss would actually be a win because it would mean Steele stays in the RNC chair, but I'd still prefer to see us recapture the seat.

I had not realized I was six years old, but that's how the GOP Superstar Jindal addressed me, so I suppose I am.  

Seriously.  "Political calculation. You have a better shot at 55% than you do at 50%."  Says who?  Has he seen polling suggesting this?  Or is he just pulling it out of his rear end?  

There's arguments for a super-majority and arguments for a majority.  But if you're admitting that the super-majority argument is the stronger one, like the Lt. Gov. is, the argument for change is much weaker.  

In Steele's defense, the #1 voter concern about the Republican party was that they had not done an "off the hook public relations offensive that was technically avant garde."

Wait, what?  Oh, it was that their polices caused disaster?  My bad.

Also, I can't help but pointing out one additional rock in this mountain of fail---doesn't he mean "technologically" off the hook?  "Technically" makes it sound like it barely gets there.

For example,
"the new Blackberry is technically an improvement over the previous model" vs. "the new Blackberry is technologically an improvement over the previous model."

NPR= Nice Polite Republicans.

And, if this person is being truthful, it truly has become a media goal to bring Obama's approval down:

http://www.openleft.com/showComment.do?c ommentId=146670

I do find it mildly amusing that it is Ben Smith writing this article---I mean, seriously, as a publication is there a bigger regurgitator of Village CW than Politico?  

At some point, though, the media's war on the stimulus and Obama will have something of an effect.  In the Soviet Union, of course people disbelieved what they read in Pravda.  But it still served as the background of how they perceived the world.  

Its weird when the Democrats have a strategy to push a more progressive agenda and it seems to work.  I almost don't know how to react.

Also, I think this shows that Obama wants there to be vocal liberal opposition/critiquing of what he's doing.  We demand 1.4 trillion stimulus, he finds a midpoint between that and the Republican suggestion of 800 billion and a lot of tax cuts, and he comes off looking like a centrist.

So if you want him to be doing something more liberal, get out there and speak your piece.  

"We female Democratic Senators classify our male Democratic colleagues into three categories:  Friends, Supporters, and Sir Galahads.  And Joe Lieberman is a Sir Galahad."  Senator Boxer, 7/25/06

That's how.  Out of the her, Feinstein, and Schwarzenegger, she's the best of the three, I suppose.

And I'll admit that I am spoiled by my rep (Waxman).

Eh, two years is a long way away.  Republicans just got destroyed and are looking for any ray of hope.  

Agree.  He'd be wasted in the Senate.  He should keep doing what he's doing, and then become AG after Holder (looking ahead quite a bit).  

I'd prefer Schwartz (since Murphy's a Blue Dog), but I'd prefer Murphy to Matthews.  

My cousin had the same thoughts.

Also, she's term-limited, so she couldn't have run for reelection in 2010.