The Next Right

Conservative bloggers and Senate Republicans are happy to have a fight with Democrats over judicial nominees stalled by Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Jon Henke writes. Reid, buoyed by the expectation of broader majority next year, seems to be going back on a deal with Republicans to allow nominations to go forward, prompting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to make an issue out of the appointments this year, Henke writes. And while everyone knows that Tony Rezko, Barack Obama’s friend and former fundraiser, was convicted on corruption charges Wednesday, few know that a former Republican congressional staffer convicted on fraud charges this week also had ties to a lobbying firm that donated to Obama and Hillary Clinton, notes Jon Henke.