...the DSCC has asked Matt Stoller who will be stationed at blogger HQ AKA: 'the tank' to be our guest blogger during the convention and keep us updated on the latest happenings. Stay tuned for updates at www.fromtheroots.org

Last week, the DSCC learned that the Republicans are going up on the attack in South Dakota, Oklahoma, North Carolina and Alaska. In North Carolina, they purchased a whopping $5 million in airtime and, in South Dakota alone, the Republicans and other third party groups are scheduled to spend gargantuan $3 million dollars!

A Washington Times op-ed from last week on Jim DeMint's proposed 23 percent national sales tax attacked the Congressman's plan saying it had "no support among reputable tax experts." Former Ronald Reagan economic aide Bruce Bartlett writes that after a "thorough review of the academic literature on this issue," he "could not find a single article in a peer-reviewed journal that did not reject" DeMint's 23 percent sales tax proposal "as utterly unworkable." Other conservatives criticizing DeMint's plan, including President Bush, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and the Wall Street Journal. Bartlett also recently wrote in National Review that, "Trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea." OUCH!