When even Fox News can’t jerk the numbers in favor of Senate Republicans (here’s the poll, screen-capped part is page 20)… I’m incredibly happy to see this.  After Scalia died I said: The Republicans can probably successfully delay the nomination for a year, but it may cost them in the election.  It will fire up their (already fired up) base, but everybody else tends to frown on government shut downs of any sort. This poll, which probably undersells the support... Read more

Republicans have decided to roll the dice on the general election by digging in and being intransigent in the wake of Antonin Scalia’s death: Key Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee emerged from a closed door meeting in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office Tuesday united in their determination not to consider any nominee to replace Antonin Scalia until the next president takes office. Tuesday was the first full day the Senate was back in session since Scalia’s death Feb. 13.... Read more

Alabama Republicans have proposed their newest anti-abortion law, one that would, for some reason, have abortion doctors telling patients how much money they make: An Alabama state House committee held a hearing Tuesday morning on a bill that would require abortion providers to disclose their annual income to patients, the portion of that income earned from performing abortions and how much they lose monetarily when a patient backs out of the procedure. Oh snap!  Because upon hearing that a doctor... Read more