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Obama health reform legislation, already the subject of an American political contest for the history books, hinges this weekend on the votes of about 12 conservative fence-sitting Democrats. They are now the target of intense campaigns for and against reform and they are the subject of a brief round-up piece at Politico this a.m. Will [...]

A copy of a secret special Republican National Committee presentation prepared by the party’s finance staff and delivered by RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart to top donors and fundraisers at a retreat in Boca Grande, Florida, last month was left in a hotel room. Now it’s public. There are no surprises in the presentation yet [...]

With an assist from Politico, which has completely bought into Glenn Beck’s campaign against “czars” — on Monday, the publication sketched out a “GOP czar revolt” that consisted of work by Michelle Malkin, a joke by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), and a comment from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — conservatives are arguing that the [...]

The National Republican Congressional Committee told Politico yesterday it was targeting swing-district Democratic officials, like Colorado’s freshman Rep. Betsy Markey. The NRCC said it was going to wage an expensive attack campaign featuring TV and radio ads in districts around the country. But it didn’t do that. Instead, it spent not a dollar in simply telling Politico it was going to do that and Politico wrote all about it. Nasty work, and done dirt cheap!