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The campaign manager for former attorney general candidate Brenna Findley has signed on with Rick Santorum’s Iowa presidential team, as has the field director for former gubernatorial candidate Rod Roberts. Sheila Murphy — currently the chairwoman of the Republican Party of Harrison County — and brother Kip Murphy — who formerly worked for “Americans for Rick Perry” — will advise Santorum on state field operations, particularly in southwest Iowa.

TWI’s Andrew Restuccia is on KALW radio’s Your Call right now, discussing the Obama administration’s decision to lift the deepwater drilling moratorium in the

In the wake of Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D-Pa.) defection from the Republican Party, another prominent GOP moderate is expressing doubts that the party has a future

Remember when the Bush administration was opposed to tapping the $700 billion Wall Street bailout to help Detroit’s Big Three? Fugetaboutit. The Treasury

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) spoke today at the Center for American Progress indicating education policymakers cannot wait for socio-economic conditions to

I look back on this to-be-sure paragraph from my pre-Afghanistan-elections piece about illegitimacy and wonder. While the U.S. official cautioned that a

A new poll finds Americans support Elena Kagan by a similar margin to other recent successful Supreme Court nominees. Michele Flournoy, a potential successor

New Orleans is a city that recognizes that day laborers did participate and did come to the rescue in terms of reconstruction, says Jacinta Gonzales of the Congress of Day Laborers.

Not the horse. Here’s the statement from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee’s health subpanel, reacting to reports that

After three weeks of stalling over controversial amendments to legislation extending unemployment benefits, Senate GOP leaders are floating a new message as

TWI’s David Weigel made an appearance on MSNBC’s Countdown last night, chatting with Lawrence O’Donnell about all things Palin: her hand scribblings, her

The Senate this afternoon killed a proposal, sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), to return the Democrats’ health reform bill to the Finance Committee in

Lawmakers are enraged that banks are sitting on billions in taxpayer funds rather than lending, but economists say there should be no surprise.

The Wall Street Journal posts an interesting story, noting that ultra-affluent customers -- who spend more than, gulp, $7,000 a month on their credit cards

As first reported by Firedoglake’s Marcy Wheeler, a federal judge has ruled that the Bush administration illegally wiretapped the defunct Islamic charity

Groups of postal service employees will protest the possible downsizing of the U.S. postal service at rallies all over Florida tomorrow. “Save America’s Postal Service” is hosting rallies (.pdf) at the offices of congressional representatives all over the state.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved an anti-abortion-rights bill Thursday night that prohibits state health exchanges created by President Obama’s

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Jan. 21, 2009. Elana Schor at Talking Points

Are we really going to go through this again? Immediately after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development finished putting the final touches on a

Remember just a few weeks ago when Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the upper-chamber leaders on health care reform, announced their