From Politico.com: House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) shared eggs and bacon with the MSM at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast this morning (though he barely touched his plate). Prompted by reporters, he riffed on Missouri’s role in the presidential race and relations between House Republicans and the president as well as between the caucus [...]

[Read more →]

We’ve lobbed our fair share of criticism at Jo Mannies and her often lazy reporting, but FiredUp Missouri took it up a notch today by blasting an usual ally. FUM is angry at Mannies’ coverage of a story they’ve been peddling to the complicit media. FiredUp called Mannies reporting “ridiculously incomplete, inept and credulous.” It’s [...]

[Read more →]

It’s amazing how objective and insightful Post Dispatch capitol beat reporter Tony Messenger can be when he’s writng about two Republicans in a tough primary battle: “It wouldn’t be right for me to choose a winner or loser. But I’ll say this: Hulshof put all his eggs in the “she’s being mean to me” basket. [...]

[Read more →]

Kenny playing hoops with the lobbyists in Washington D.C. Congressman Kenny Hulshof is out with his first serious negative jab at Sarah Steelman today. In a post this afternoon on Dave Cantanese’s Ky3 Political Notebook blog – a blog many have suspected is in the tank for Mr. Hulshof because of all the recent “exclusives” [...]

[Read more →]

We told you last week how “Tricky” Dick Gephardt (son of a milk truck driver!) is now a corporate lobbyist who advocates vociferously for “clean coal technology. We guess Dick doesn’t get the Democrat talking points anymore, or he simply ignores them in favor of his new corporate masters. Here are some choice quotes from [...]

[Read more →]

Hat tip: KY3 Political Notebook “In response a new Democratic spokesperson, hired solely to handle the Governor’s race challenged Republican candidates Sarah Steelman and Kenny Hulshof to outline their own healthcare plans. “It’s been roughly six months since Steelman and Hulshof embraced cutting people’s Medicaid coverage. In all that time, they still haven’t offered any [...]

[Read more →]