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Scott Brown looks back over first year in Senate
Scott Brown ran for the Senate vowing to rein in Government Spending and cut the federal Budget Deficit. A year later, he is open to increasing the National Debt limit so the government can both spend and borrow more. The clash between his campaign Rhetoric and voting record underscores the theme of the Republican’s first year replacing a liberal icon, the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. To the frequent surprise of Democrats, and often the chagrin of Conservatives and Tea Party Activists, Bro...

Will Massachusetts stay red in 2012? Ted Kennedys wife Vicki wont challenge Scott Brown (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller Colin Cowherd: The United States of Brady [VIDEO] House Speaker John Boehner: 'We will have the last word' Six reasons America is only the ninth-most free economy in the world TheDC Analysis: The limits of Republican power Heavy metal band responds to allegations that their music had any influence on AZ shooter Vicki Kennedy, wife of the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, will not run for the U.S. Senate in 2012. “The Senate is not where I see my...

AP Interview: Brown reflects on a year in Congress (AP)
BOSTON – Scott Brown ran for the Senate vowing to rein in Government Spending and cut the federal Budget Deficit. A year later, he is open to increasing the national Debt Limit so the government can both spend and borrow more. The clash between his campaign Rhetoric and voting record underscores the theme of the Republican's first year replacing a liberal icon, the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. To the frequent surprise of Democrats, and often the chagrin of Conservatives and Tea Party act...

Scott Brown Reflects On First Year In Congress
BOSTON — Scott Brown ran for the Senate vowing to rein in Government Spending and cut the federal Budget Deficit. A year later, he is open to increasing the National Debt limit so the government can both spend and borrow more. The clash between his campaign Rhetoric and voting record underscores the theme of the Republican's first year replacing a liberal icon, the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. To the frequent surprise of Democrats, and often the chagrin of Conservatives and Tea Party act...

AP Interview: Brown reflects on a year in Congress
BOSTON—Scott Brown ran for the Senate vowing to rein in Government Spending and cut the federal Budget Deficit. A year later, he is open to increasing the National Debt limit so the government can both spend and borrow more. The clash between his campaign Rhetoric and voting record underscores the theme of the Republican's first year replacing a liberal icon, the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. To the frequent surprise of Democrats, and often the chagrin of Conservatives and Tea Party activi...

Report: Romney Hires Pollster, Political Director
Mitt Romney's non-campaign is looking more and more like a real campaign. Though Romney has yet to officially declare a presidential bid, Real Clear Politics reports that he's taken on a pollster and a political director. That news comes on the heels of Romney's decision to step down from the board of directors of Marriott International, a decision that seems to signal his intention to once again seek the Republican presidential nomination. According to Real Clear Politics, Rich Beeson, a for...

The Tea Party's First Scalp In 2012
...is Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Rather than facing a promised primary challenge from the Tea Party right over the next 18 months (and especially considering the pounding she took in the state's gubernatorial race last year), she's hanging up her spurs altogether. Kay Bailey Hutchison said today that she will not seek another term in the U.S. Senate. "I have known since 2006 that I wouldn't seek another term," the senator said in a telephone interview. "I wanted to announce it ...

Interest is intense for Kay Bailey Hutchison's seat
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's Thursday afternoon announcement that she will not seek re-election next year prompted an immediate flurry of speculation about successors, early positioning by potential Candidates and a decisive "no" from a prominent Democrat who once had his eye on the seat. "Sen. Hutchison has worked hard for Texas for many years," former Houston Mayor Bill White wrote in an e-mail. "I wish her and her family well. I look forward to going back into business this year, and wi...

DeMint Drops Names In Texas
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint (R), whose Senate Conservatives Fund is a major Tea Party Fundraising force, chimed in Friday morning on which Candidates he may endorse in the open seat Texas Senate race. In an e-mail to supporters less than 24 hours after Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) announced she won't seek re-election, DeMint poured cold water on the potential candidacy of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (R) and touted potential contenders Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams (R) and former solicit...

Missouri blogger claims FBI intimidation...
Bowler writes the Bungalow Bill’s Conservative Wisdom blog and said he’s been critical of Long since his candidacy for Congress. Bowler is also the author of the Long is Wrong blog that’s been gone since Long won the General Election in November. “I’ve poked fun at Billy,” Bowler said. “Part of it was satire—exposing Billy as not being a real Tea Party Candidate.” Bowler said Long even offered him a job on his campaign if he would give up his...

Tucson tea party founder says Giffords to blame for getting shot
By David Edwards The Raw Story Thursday, January 13th, 2011 One tea Party Leader says that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) has herself to blame for getting shot in the head Saturday. The Arizona congresswoman shouldn't have attended an event "in full view of the public" if she had security concerns, according to Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries. Giffords warned MSNBC's Chuck Todd last year that there would be "consequences" to violent Rhetoric and imagery after Fox News' Sarah Palin ...

List of possible Hutchison successors takes shape (AP)
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's Retirement announcement nearly two years before Texas voters will choose her successor gives aspiring Candidates plenty of time to prepare. The list of Republicans and Democrats who might be interested was already starting to take shape Thursday after Hutchison announced in a letter to supporters that she would not seek Reelection when her term ends in 2012. The state's first female senator has occupied her seat for nearly two decades and, ob...

Pakistan: Islamic party leader tells daughter of assassinated governor to remember her fathers fate and be quiet about blasphemy
After all, nothing speaks to the inherent merits of a law quite like having to defend it by threatening anyone who criticizes it with Murder. "Taseer's daughter warned to back off," from the Telegraph, January 14: Islamabad: The leader of an Islamic political party in Pakistan has warned the daughter of a murdered politician to ''remember her father's fate'' and to stop supporting his cause. Salman Taseer, the Governor of Punjab, was shot dead by Mumtaz Qadri, a Police Officer, on January 4 be...

Tucson Tea Party Leader Being Flooded With Death Threats Following Giffords Shooting
Nice work, Sheriff Dupnik. (TPM)- Trent Humphries, the leader of the largest Tea Party group in this mourning southern Arizona city, has nothing but praise for the way President Obama has led the nation through the aftermath of Saturday’s Mass Shooting at a constituent event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). But Humphries won’t be there tonight when Obama speaks at a memorial rally intended to unify Tucson after six people were killed in the tragedy. Humphries says he’s ...

Patrick Kennedy Pushing Comrade Joe Kennedy to Challenge Scott Brown
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Hutchison's retirement clears way for Texas hopefuls
Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison announced Thursday she won’t seek Reelection in 2012, ending the uncertainty that had largely frozen a slate of GOP contenders itching to replace her. In a statement to supporters and the media, the three-term Republican who first won a Special Election in 1993, said her decision “would give the people of Texas ample time to consider who my successor will be.” Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 The first female to represent Texas...

Texas US Sen. Hutchison Plans to Retire Next Year
Thursday, January 13, 2011 In this Jan. 19, 2010, file photo Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, addresses the Greater Houston Pachyderm Club in Houston. Hutchison announced Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, that she will retire after her current term expires next year. (AP Photo/Bob Levey, File) Washington (AP) - Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican who was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas and has held the seat for nearly two decades, announced Thursday she will retire next year wh...

Sen. Hutchison Wont Run Again in 2012
Sen. Hutchison Won’t Run Again in 2012 Yahoo! Buzz GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison announced today she won’t run for re-election in 2012, keeping a pledge to retire after she challenged Texas Gov. Rick Perry for Governor last year. The 67-year-old Texan is a social moderate, fiscal conservative and the Senate Republicans’ longest-serving woman. “I am announcing today that I will not be a Candidate for re-election in 2012,” she said in a statement on Facebook. “That s...

Texas' Hutchison plans to retire next year
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican who has represented Texas in the U.S. Senate for nearly two decades, announced Thursday she will retire next year when her current term expires. In a letter addressed to her Texas constituents and also sent to members in the media, Mrs. Hutchison said she would not seek re-election in 2012. She previously signaled she might retire but changed her mind several times in the last few years. In 2010, she challenged Gov. Rick Perry in th...

TX-Sen: Tea Party bags first scalp of 2012 -- Kay Bailey Hutchison
With Republicans the odds-on favorite to take control of the Senate in 2012, why would a popular Republican Senator in a red state call it quits? Kay Bailey Hutchison will not run for re-election to the U.S. Senate. In a letter to supporters, Hutchison said she enjoyed serving Texas. "I am announcing today that I will not be a Candidate for re-election in 2012," she wrote to supporters. "That should give the people of Texas ample time to consider who my successor will be." Perhaps it had somet...

Ayla Brown _ senator's kid, ex-Idol _ goes country
Ayla Brown is going country. The former "American Idol" contestant is moving to Nashville, Tenn., to test her talents as a country singer. Her father, Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, told The Associated Press this week that music producers in Nashville "want to work with her." Ayla Brown's website says she's spending the coming week writing and recording at Starstruck Studios. It says she's moving there in early February. Ayla Brown was a Basketball star at Boston College. She now is a specia...

When Should the GOP Bring Up Entitlement Reform Legislation?
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Would-be reformers should draw two lessons from this history. The first is that reform can’t be sprung on the electorate. Reagan hadn’t campaigned on cutting Social Security in 1980, nor did the Gingrich Republicans promise to reduce the growth of Medicare. As a result, if Republicans spend much of the next two years fighting over these programs, voters who depend on them are going to be unpleasantly surprised. Keep in m...

Tucson Tea Party Co-Founder Blames Giffords For Getting Shot; Says Tea Party Is Also Shooting Victim
Trent Humphries, co-founder of the Tucson Tea Party, says if Gabrielle had security concerns she should have protected herself and not appeared without better security at an open event. (via Raw Story) The Arizona congresswoman shouldn’t have attended an event “in full view of the public” if she had security concerns, according to Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries. Humphries told The Guardian, “We’re Victims, too,” worried that the fall-out from the ...

Vicki Kennedy won't run
It's been 64 years since Washington has not had a Kennedy in elected office, but don't count on Vicki Kennedy to try to start a new streak. The widow of Sen. Ted Kennedy told the Boston Globe Tuesday night "there's no elective office for me" in her future. “There will not be a yes,’’ she said when asked about a challenge to Sen. Scott Brown in 2012. “The Senate is not where I see my future.’’ She noted that had chatted about the possibility with he...

Vicki Kennedy rules out Senate run
The widow of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) ruled out running for her late husband's seat in her strongest words to date. Vicki Kennedy said she won't run to challenge Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) in 2012, or run for president in the future. “There will not be a yes," Kennedy told Boston Globe columnist Scot Lehigh about whether she'd agree to run. "The Senate is not where I see my future." Kennedy's been seen as possibly the strongest Candidate Brown could face in 2012, when he'll be heavily...