Roadblock Blog

Roadblock Roundup for July 25

Al Franken, seriously.
Norm Coleman rolled out the bowlers in a second campaign ad attacking Al Franken. Unfortunately, it's another gutterball that's not funny, ridicules the "regular folks" with whom he is trying to connect, and provides the erstwhile satirist Franken with the opportunity to score with a substantive, statesman-like response:

Mitch McConnell taxes credibility
Mitch McConnell's first attack ad attempts to suggest that Bruce Lunsford is responsible for high gas prices in Kentucky even though Lunsford is for a windfall profits tax on Big Oil to pay for a gas tax holiday while McConnell himself has accepted tens of thousands of dollars from the petroleum industry and thinks that oil rigs are "pretty". Lunsford explained the root of McConnell spurious assertion in a Courier Journal Op-Ed.

Dolly Partisan?
Senator John Cornyn issued a press release urging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to pass legislation to shore-up South Texas levees just hours before Dolly hit the region.

Sweet 16
With just over 100 days until November 4, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Chuck Schumer lists 16 Republican-held seats as competitive!

A Vitter Pill
Louisiana Senate candidate John Kennedy (no relation or remote similarity) has put himself in the awkward position of criticizing the values of Republican Mayor Mike Bloomberg, a supporter of incumbent Mary Landrieu, even as Kennedy accepts considerable support from Senator David Vitter.