Republicans nationally had reason to celebrate Tuesday last week when Scott Brown did what seemed impossible not long ago; captured a Senate seat not held by a member of the GOP since Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. The Massachusetts special election on January nineteenth of this year had all of the hallmarks of the Barack Obama campaign from [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
The Massachusetts Special Election Could Define the 2010 Cycle.
There has been and will continue to be much discussion regarding the surprise retirements of Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) announced on Tuesday this week. Certainly, these retirements could completely reshape the Senate contests later this year in those two states. In the near term, however, the attention of Republicans should be on Massachusetts, where a [...]
Let’s Support the Cantwell-McCain Bill
In 1999, a bi-partisan effort led by the Democratic Clinton Administration and Republican leaders in Congress repealed the Glass–Steagall Act with the passage of the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act. The Glass Steagall Act had prohibited any one institution from acting as any combination of an investment bank, a commercial bank, and/or an insurance company, thereby blocking the [...]