by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

As the Hill reported this morning, John McCain's (and John Kyl's) staffers were interviewed in the Renzi investigation. Federal agents interviewed staffers for likely Republican...

by Jane Hamsher [courtesy of Firedoglake]

(Please welcome Cliff Schecter, author of The Real McCain in the comments -- jh)Cliff Schecter has long been the progressive's dream -- capable of going on Fox news without losing his cool or getting pwnd by some lame Republican, arguing from the Democratic side with intelligence, succinctness and passion. But with the publication of his new book, The Real McCain, he's got John McCain on the run.Watch the YouTube attached

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Sunday's Washington Post features a front-page story examining the notorious temper of Sen. John McCain, including a first-hand account of McCain's physical altercation with fellow...

by Jane Hamsher [courtesy of Firedoglake]

I've been worried for a while that it's going to be difficult to get any traction on John McCain. But I felt a bit of a shift this week with the release of Cliff Schecter's book The Real McCain, when McCain was forced to publicly answer for stories contained in it. The book is climbing its way up the Amazon charts and is currently at #141, so give it some help and buy a copy.  I know I've harped on it many times, but book sales = legitimacy in the eyes of the media, and having Cliff on TV telling the stories in his books is very very good for Democrats, no matter which candidate you think is Teh Awesome.

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With seven months until the 2008 elections and filing deadlines now coming and going, House Republicans face a significant number of recruiting holes. Some of...

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A federal judge has ordered that the corruption trial of Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) will be delayed six months in order to give his lawyers...

by brownsox [courtesy of Daily Kos]

Ladies and gentlemen, your "pro-life, pro-family" GOP:

Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., allegedly defrauded dozens of pro-life organizations for hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund his first congressional bid, according to an analysis of the recent indictment against him, a state insurance claim and an interview with an insurance lawyer involved in the case.

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Organizations such as Arizona Right-to-Life, the Hope Crisis Pregnancy Center and the Wickenburg Pregnancy Resource Center paid insurance premiums to Renzi's insurance firm, Renzi & Company, but received notices their insurance coverage was going to be cancelled for nonpayment, according to a 2003 complaint filed with the State of Arizona. The complaint was first reported by the Phoenix New Times.

According to the indictment, Renzi funneled those payments -- totaling more than $400,000 -- through various accounts and finally to his campaign.

Of course, Renzi claims to be adamantly anti-choice:

Renzi has positioned himself as staunchly anti-abortion. "The sanctity of human life should always be upheld, and I will continue to fight for the rights of the unborn in Congress," he said in 2003, as a freshman U.S. representative. In 2006, Renzi received a 100 percent rating from the National Right to Life Committee for his voting record.

Ah, Republicans. So passionately devoted to the "sanctity of life", except when there's money involved.

Or, as DHinMI puts it,

Pro-life money funneled away from helping "unborn" babies to helping "unelected" politicians.

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For National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (Okla.), every week seems to bring a new set of problems. On Saturday night, things got even worse. With Democrat Bill Foster's victory in the Illinois 14th District special election, Democrats now...

by Josh Zaharoff [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

Political years must be like dog years, because the Democrats are acting as if 2006 is ancient history.