Huffington Post has a story up today about Rep. Dave Reichert's supposed flip-flopping on health care reform and the issue of reform-of-reform versus repeal. Here's an excerpt, read it carefully:

When he's in Washington, D.C., Dave Reichert wants to repeal health care reform. Back in Washington state, the Republican Congressman says that calls for repeal are mere political posturing.

"The more radical approach is let's repeal this bill but I'm just gonna say that that's more of a political move, a political argument, than a substantial argument that says, you know, let's try to make this bill better," he told Seattle-based KIRO radio in March.

Last Thursday House Republican leaders introduced a bill to repeal the sweeping healthcare law adopted in late March, and Reichert helped lead the effort....

I have an op-ed running today at the Daily Caller about Republican candidates' need to "keep it local." Here's a excerpt:

Last week, Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul crossed the nation’s political radar as a result of comments made by him and heavily publicized in the national media regarding his views on the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Immediately following Paul’s primary win on Tuesday, national-level scrutiny of remarks he made to the Louisville Courier-Journal on the subject had begun; subsequently, he went on Rachel Maddow’s show to discuss the topic further; Paul was also slated to appear on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, an appearance his campaign ultimately canceled.

Depending on whom you ask, the whole episode has been enlightening, painful, overblown, underplayed or a combination of one or more of those. What is clear, however, is that it has served to further underline a critical lesson that all Republicans who are not a shoo-in for election this fall must learn, and learn now: Focus on your state or district, and nationalize your race at your peril.

This is a lesson that, to be fair, may play off one of the better-known catchphrases that politicians should be familiar with: All politics is local. But somehow, it seems to be one that some of the most attention-grabbing figures who have recently run and who are currently running for national-level office have forgotten, to their detriment. The time for that to be reversed is now....

This doesn't look good:

If Dino Rossi jumps into the senate race against Patty Murray, it is sure to be a bloody battle. One poll has Rossi ten points ahead.

Another has Murray with a comfortable lead.

But regardless of the polls, the race is sure to be ugly. I got an e-mail Wednesday from listener Mark. He was in an office building that is home to "People for Patty Murray" - Senator Murray's re-election headquarters. Mark wrote:

Dori,

I was in a building on Nickerson Street yesterday and while waiting for the elevator I notice that Patty Murray re-election committee office was adjacent to the elevator lobby. Right inside the window of their office is an effigy of Dino Rossi hanging from a noose with the word 3 strikes and your out.

Always though Patty had more class, but I guess after all these years in DC she's just full of hot gas.

Go look at the pictures and see what you make of it....