Author: Matthew Gertz

Diane Farrell is one of our top challengers in the upcoming midterm elections. After losing a...

It’s been a bad year for Chris Shays. Last November, the Connecticut congressman from the...

Cross-posted to My Left Nutmeg

Chris Shays (R-04) might want to start cleaning out his office and packing up his bags.

His district voted 52%-46% for John Kerry in 2004, one of the most Democratic districts held by a Republican in the country. A 17-year incumbent, he was re-elected 52%-48%, a margin of just over 13,000 votes.

Now, with his back against the wall, his 2004 opponant, Diane Farrell, is coming after him again. And this time, she’s out-raising him.

Last Sunday, the theoretically “moderate” Congressman Christopher Shays (R-CT) appeared on Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

You may remember Shays from his brutal excoriation of failed former FEMA head Mike Brown:

While Shays collected accolades from the local media, those of us who had heard this faux-moderate song-and-dance before waited for the music to stop.

Down in the halls of Washington, Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT)is fighting a lonely battle:

According to the Matheson, given the high costs of the Iraq War, the rebuilding effort on the Gulf Coast, and the rising energy prices, Congress should  waive the 1.9 percent cost-of-living increase schedued to go into effect on January 1st.

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