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The Democrats are pushing, threatening that they will go the route of reconciliation, which is a Senate procedure on budget items that requires only 51 votes - since the prior-passed budget would have already passed the 60 vote hurdle.

This installment of the Mystery of the Week series [they are infrequent enough, perhaps "of the week" is a bad label...] looks into two brothers, Clark and Blair Woodcock, who lived in and around Bedford, Blair and Huntingdon counties in the mid-nineteenth century, and who both died as a result of action in the American Civil War. Blair died in May 1864, near the Po River in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Clark died at Saylor's Creek, Virginia in April 1865.

Yes, you heard it here first.

Krog is running for Senate. The U.S. Senate. From New York, no less. In a web-only campaign, he will run for the seat presently held by Chuck Schumer. No campaign contributions, no expenditures.

Yes, it is a long shot campaign, but if Rudy Giuliani and George Pataki can't even be coerced into running for the Gillibrand seat, then they certainly aren't running against Schumer. So enter Krog, the man man enough to join the fray!

The official campaign song? "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC.

A check of the Senate website still shows Paul Kirk (D-MA) as the junior senator from Massachusetts.

Short and to the point. I was alerted last night by a promo during USA Network's Burn Notice that the new prequel series Caprica debuts tonight at 9pm EST on SyFy (old SciFi). The Pilot is 2 hours long, and will reair at 11pm EST, and probably again in the overnight.

In electing Scott Brown to the seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy, the voters of Massachusetts sent a resounding message to the Democrats in Washington: "Hell no!" Or, in other words, one hell of an anniversary present for President Obama. (The crowd at the Brown victory rally had chants of "Forty-One", "Seat him Now", among others)

Scott Brown (R) in the MA Senate Debate last night, it's not Kennedy's seat, it's the people's seat:

I guess when the writing on the wall is so bad that the incumbent is losing no matter who the opponent, it's time to get out.

The number of net seats changing hands necessary for a switch in party control of the House moved from 41 to 40 today, as freshman Rep. Parker Griffith of Alabama's 5th District switched parties, as reported by The Politico: