Angle surrogate says advocating “Second Amendment remedies” is “a little bit extreme”

Posted in News Clips | 09/13/10 | By Jon Ralston During an interview with former Senate candidate Mike Wiley on his radio program last week, another former Senate hopeful, Danny Tarkanian, said he disagreed with those who suggest a civil uprising might be necessary -- a reference to Sharron Angle's quote in January on another conservative talker's program. Said Tark: "You know, we have a process where you go out and you vote for your elected leaders, and if you don’t like them then you’ve got to get enough people…

Sharron Angle Campaigns Erratically. Um, Again.

Posted in News Clips | 09/13/10 | Another week, another weird story out of the camp of the Senate candidate. Sharron Angle, of course, is the Republican nominee taking on Democrat Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader. She’s something of an accidental candidate—if the GOP frontrunner, Sue Lowden, hadn’t recommended that constituents keep down their medical costs by bartering with doctors using chickens, Angle would have been relegated to the failed-candidate bin. Instead, she won the primary and has been offering frequent reminders of why her campaigning…

Angle draws Ralston’s ire after debate cancelation

Posted in News Clips | 09/10/10 | By Charles Riley Nevada's top political journalist lit into Republican Senate hopeful Sharron Angle on Thursday, saying that the Tea Party favorite had backed out of a planned debate. Jon Ralston, host of "Face to Face," used Thursday's broadcast as a platform to air a grievance with Angle after a campaign spokesman canceled a debate that her deputy campaign manager had agreed to only hours before. "Earlier today Sharron Angle's campaign agreed to accept our invitation to debate Harry Reid on 'Face to…

What Joe Miller and Sharron Angle tell us about the Republicans

Posted in News Clips | 09/10/10 | By Deborah Burger If Nancy Pelosi truly symbolizes the Democratic Party, as so many Republican ads suggest, let’s be clear about who really represents the other party, the Joe Miller-Sharron Angle Republicans. Miller, the Sarah Palin-backed Republican nominee for U.S. Senate from Alaska, gained notoriety, in part, by proposing elimination of two of the most popular reforms in U.S. history, Social Security and Medicare, and calling unemployment insurance “unconstitutional”. Even after his primary upset, Miller did not change his tune. Asked by CNN’s…

Republican Voinovich of Ohio to back small-business incentives in Senate bill

Posted in News Clips | 09/10/10 | By Lori Montgomery Retiring Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) said he plans to help push a package of small-business incentives through the Senate next week, a move that would give President Obama and congressional Democrats a key victory on the economy in the final weeks before the November midterm elections. In an interview, Voinovich said he could no longer support Republican efforts to delay the measure in hopes of winning the right to offer additional amendments. Most of the proposed GOP amendments "didn't have…

What qualifies as unacceptable for a major party nominee?

Posted in News Clips | 09/10/10 | By Greg Sargent "What qualifies as over the line? What qualifies as an unacceptable position for a major party nominee to hold in this year's elections?" That quote comes from Rachel Maddow, framing the question very well during this segment on Sharron Angle's claim that folks may soon be resorting to "Second Amendment remedies" if Congress continues on its current course. It's definitely worth a watch: As Maddow points out, Angle has largely refused to disavow this position under subsequent questioning. Maddow asks:…

Sharron Angle denies saying things she said

Posted in News Clips | 09/09/10 | By Alex Pareene Sharron Angle just says words, ok? It's not her job to make sure that the words are true, or make sense! So it's not fair -- it's never fair -- to ask her to explain what she meant, by these words. That's GOTCHA JOURNALISM. And that is why Sharron Angle is totally justified in denying that she ever said things that she was recorded saying. In a recent interview with ABC News, Angle denied saying that entitlement programs are a…

Reid Picks Up Some GOP Support

Posted in News Clips | 09/07/10 | By Peter Wallsten Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is one of the country’s most unpopular Democrats. He is also widely disliked in his home state of Nevada. But as he revs up his expansive, and expensive, political machinery to try and win re-election against a powerful anti-incumbent wave, Reid is leveraging his leadership power to win support from unlikely quarters – the Republican Party. Rusty Tybo, Republican mayor of tiny Wells, Nev., tells Washington Wire he is backing Reid because the senator helped…

Sharron Angle Declines To Disavow Extremely Controversial Claims, Says ‘I’ll Be Mainstream Senator’

Posted in News Clips | 09/07/10 | By Elyse Siegel Despite coming under scrutiny for expressing a wide variety of controversial views, Republican candidate Sharron Angle insists that if elected to the U.S. Senate she'll "be a mainstream senator." The Tea Party-backed hopeful, who is challenging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, made the assertion when CNN cameras caught up with her this week on her home turf in Las Vegas, Nevada. In a twist of irony, when reporters from the network asked Angle about some of her most eyebrow-raising claims…

A Tea Party takeover?

Posted in News Clips | 09/06/10 | Candidates like to say what they are against, but what do they stand for? The Tea Party movement celebrated the recent Alaska primary in which Joe Miller, one of its adherents, toppled Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski in her re-election bid. Miller joins a group of candidates, including Sharron Angle in Nevada and Rand Paul in Kentucky, who are carrying the Tea Party banner into the general election. For months, Tea Party activists have run opposed to President Barack Obama and…