The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

MSNBC’s Alternative Reality

While working on my taxes (trying to figure my mileage for 2009) I’ve had the TV in my basement office tuned to MSNBC. Unless Rachel Maddow and her cohorts are hallucinating, the most important story in the world is . . . Republicans are desperate! Obama and his health-care plan are overwhelmingly popular! Crazy right-wingers are going psycho […]

LIVE from Birmingham, Alabama

Yes, that’s right, folks. Despite the law-enforcement dragnet across Virginia and Tennessee — “Be on the lookout for a black 2004 KIA Optima . . .” — I have arrived at an undisclosed location  in Birmingham. Political intrigue and shenanigans are afoot down here in God’s country, and I’ll be updating regularly. While en route — 785 miles […]

Alabama: ‘Things Going On’

I’m planning to leave late tonight or early Thursday for a shoe-leather reporting trip to Alabama. That rattling sound you hear is either the transmission of the 2004 KIA Optima or me shaking the tip-jar like Carmen Miranda’s maracas in a Cuban samba frenzy. This trip continues the Grassroots-vs.-Establishment theme I’ve been covering for the past few months. There […]

‘Down in Alabama, You Can Run,
But You Sure Can’t Hide’

As mentioned yesterday, I’m now soliciting contributions to the Shoe Leather Fund to help fund an expedition to Alabama later this week. Despite promising Mrs. Other McCain I wouldn’t make any more road trips before CPAC, there’s some Tea Party action happening down there in the Republican primaries, and I need to check it out. Early this morning […]

Politico Names an NRCC Dud; UPDATE: Roby Says FEC Numbers Show Otherwise; Time for Some Shoe Leather Reporting?

This one’s going to leave a mark: “Montgomery city councilwoman Martha Roby, the leading Republican to face Rep. Bobby Bright (D-Ala.), only brought in $76,000, and spent more than she raised.” One of the reason’s for Roby’s lackluster performance is the entry of Tea Party-backed Republican candidate Rick Barber into the AL-2 primary, which I mentioned here […]

All Politics News Breakfast Is Local

FITCHBURG, Mass. — Two eggs over medium, corned beef hash, wheat toast, orange juice and coffee yesterday morning at the Fifth Street diner: The Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise has this: Vincent FratAntonio, 49, of Leominster, went to vote Tuesday despite recently having major surgery, and cast his vote for “(Scott) Brown, of course.” . . […]

Polls, Robocalls, Snow, and Other Distractions in Massachusetts

FITCHBURG, Mass. This afternoon, I was on the Ken Pittman show on WBSM in New Bedford and Fairhaven and the subject of the Tea Party movement came up. There can be no doubt that Tea Party activists — “far right teabaggers,” as Chuck Schumer calls them — are making a difference in Massachusetts. Think about that Vietnam veteran […]

Massachusetts Senate: When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Vote Brown

FITCHBURG, Mass. — Red Mass Group, Gateway Pundit and Legal Insurrection now pick up on the SEIU “Purple for Brown” phenomenon I spotted last night in Worcester. Weasel Zippers has MSNBC’s Ed Schultz boasting he’d cheat to elect Martha Coakley. Meanwhile, I’m updating for The American Spectator: Seeing the Senate campaign from ground level is […]

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