In the wake of the Kentucky primary May 18, a few Republican talking heads mentioned they’d seen a private poll that had GOP/tea bagger candidate Rand Paul with a 20 point advantage over his Democratic opponent, Attorney General Jack Conway.
Only 3 percent of African-American Kentuckians plan to vote for Rand Paul.
If that was true — [...]

I don’t care who you are, it’s a difficult, unpleasant experience for the nominee. It’s just something you have to go through.

— Former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, quoted by ABC News, on what Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is about to face.

Tea baggers are criticizing the president for missing the wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery this Memorial Day — even though pres. Reagan, Bush and Bush also missed ceremonies — but they have conveniently forgotten that last year he did something George W. Bush never did. He visited the graves of soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan, as well as those whose lives were wasted in George Bush’s unnecessary and immoral invasion of Iraq.

he great thing about having Facebook friends who watch Glenn Beck is that you don’t have to. It’s like having Jon Stewart in your news feed, only not nearly as funny.
Three presidents in recent history missed the Arlington ceremony: Reagan, Bush, and Bush.
That’s how I know that the big tea bagging deal at the moment [...]

The American public favors the new Arizona anti-immigrant law by 61 percent, according to a new NBC/MSNBC/Telemundo poll, but the law is already starting to do for the national GOP what Proposition 187, a 1994 anti-immigrant ballot initiative, did for the California Republican Party: Kill it.

Boston Globe:
About a week after acknowledging he “misspoke” about his military service during the Vietnam era, a new poll released Thursday shows Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal remains popular among Connecticut voters and maintains a double-digit lead in the race.
The Quinnipiac University Poll, conducted May 24-25, shows Blumenthal leading the endorsed Republican Senate candidate, former [...]

When I first came to the Supreme Court, three of my colleagues had never been a federal judge. William Rehnquist came to the Bench from the Office of Legal Counsel. Byron White was Deputy Attorney General. And Lewis Powell who was a private lawyer in Richmond and had been president of the American Bar Association. Currently, there is nobody on the Court who has not served as a judge — indeed, as a federal judge — all nine of us … I am happy to see that this latest nominee is not a federal judge — and not a judge at all.

— Justice Antonin Scalia, on ABC News, commenting that he likes the fact that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is not currently a judge.

Only Sarah Palin could take what should have been a note of encouragement and make it all about her. And how she’s been mistreated. And attacked. And lied about. And on and on and on.
Gosh, poor Sarah. I mean, poor Nikki. Whichever.
If you missed it, Rep. Nikki Haley (R-S.C.) is running for governor of her [...]

We’re really in nut country now.

- President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, just hours before he was assassinated there on November 22, 1963.

week after the tea party favorite lost the special election in Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district to a Democrat — and six days after Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul, a tea party favorite, imploded his campaign by coming out against the Civil Rights Act, results from Idaho’s primary yesterday produced yet another tea bagger snafu. [...]