Madison Project

The long knives are out for DeMint after the defeat of RINO Jon Bruning.

Johanns said he shared that view with DeMint on Tuesday.

“The question I kept getting asked is why would an individual senator spend all this money out here,” Johanns said. “What’s in it for him? And it just created a level of concern and suspicion and at the end of the day it was a bad deal for a really good guy.”

The answer is very simple, Senator Johanns.  He didn’t want another senator from Nebraska who would vote with the Democrats like you do.

The Mercatus Institute came out with a report detailing how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lost taxpayers $170 billion over the past few years.

Senator Tom Coburn told the WashPost’s Ezra Klein: “If President Obama is president again, those problems are still there and we have to solve them. He knows that. We’ve had conversations where he’s told me he’ll go much further than anyone believes he’ll go to solve the entitlement problem if he can get the compromise. And I believe him. I believe he would.”

Sigh.  I’m really not sure what has gotten into the good senator lately; attacking Republicans for being too partisan, voting for NAT-Gas subsidies, voting for Ex-Im Bank, endorsing tax increases – and now this?

For most of the year, the Nebraska Senate race had been a two-man battle between liberal Jon Bruning and “DeMint” conservative Don Stenberg.  We supported Stenberg early in the race in his uphill fight against the establishment.  Just a few months ago, an obscure state senator, Deb Fischer, entered the race.  She didn’t gain traction until a few weeks ago, but once she did, she surged.  Over the past week or two, it became clear that Stenberg would not win and that Deb Fischer was the only one who could knock off Bruning.  We stuck by Stenberg because we had some concerns about Fischer’s voting record.  Nonetheless, Fischer has won the election and we are glad to see Bruning go down.  He would have been a disaster.  Deb Fischer deserves a lot of credit for her stunning upset, and we hope she continues to run and govern as a conservative when she hopefully makes it to the US Senate.

Once again, James O’Keefe sent an operative into a North Carolina polling station last week and successfully obtained a ballot of a non-citizen.  Yet, Eric Holder is prosecuting those states that require photo ID.

This is probably not the support Hatch wishes to receive at this point.

A new Talk Business-Hendrix College poll is out and it portends good news for Madison endorsee, Tom Cotton.  According to the results of the survey, Cotton leads earmark supporter Beth Anne Rankin 51-33%.  At this pace Cotton might be able to avoid a runoff.

Rasmussen’s latest poll shows Walker putting some distance between himself and his Democrat opponent in the recall election.  It looks like the air is coming out of the recall effort.

Yesterday, we reported that some Colorado Republicans were considering voting for a gay civil unions bill if it would be brought to the floor.  The Speaker of the house announced yesterday that they won’t bring the bill to the floor.  Meanwhile, supporters of gay marriage shouted epithets at the legislators.

It’s a case of the establishment circling the wagons around their own.