House Minority Leader John Boehner is defying direct orders from the wildly popular Chief Administration Officer Dan Beard, and refusing to take down his earmark reform website. According to Roll Call, the website URL was approved back in August, but now that the site has thousands of views, and has …

With a week to go until Texas and Ohio decide which Democrat candidate most likely moves on – the Clinton campaign, in what seems like an act of desperation, has begun to circulate a picture of Barack Obama fitted as a Somali Edler. The campaign’s rationale for circulating the picture: …

Kucinich, a fundraising machine $689K in 7 weeks

Vogel: Consultant Spending Saps Clinton Campaign Hillary Rodham Clinton started the year flush with cash, but by the beginning of this month, she’d blazed through most of it — spending $11 million on ads, $3.8 million on messaging guru Mark Penn and $1,300 at Dunkin’ Donuts, to name just a …

JoMa: The RNC hasn’t come out and gotten behind McCain yet….

Clinton draws boos after commenting on Obama’s alleged plagiarized speeches

Pat Hynes, with Ankle Biting Pundits, has a formal invitation out for any NY Times employee who wants to discuss the paper’s “hit piece” on Sen. McCain (for whom Hynes works for). Shockingly, Jim Rutenberg, the man behind the ink, declined the invitation and also indicated that no one would be …

Adam Reilly Asks: Just How Pissed Should Mitt Romney Be At the NY Times? Interesting note: Romney staffers are still on the payroll until tomorrow. 

A different spin on the video we posted earlier this week.  h/t RedState

Lawrence Lessig Forms Exploratory Committee for Lantos Seat His blog His book His other book And another One more His Wikipedia entry His web site He must have been thinking about this for a while Draft Lessig for Congress Facebook Group $200 says he’s on the House Judiciary Committee…

Is the NYT smear machince in full gear?  McCain wakes up to a story he supposedly might have seen coming for months. 

Amie Parnes: Follow the leader? Not necessarily….

The Little Green Footballs blog reports that while Obama won’t wear an American flag on his lapel, on the wall in his Houston campaign office hangs a Cuban flag with Che Guevara’s face on it.  Che’s Wiki page