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Here, Arkansas: Here’s your political “holy shit” moment of the day—Democratic Rep. Vic Snyder of the Second Congressional District announces he’ll retire. Full statement at jump. Republican Tim Griffin has been making a spirited run to challenge Snyder on the GOP side, facing Scott Wallace and David Meeks in the Republican primary. Soooo…who will jump in on the Democratic side? ***snip *** U.S. Representative Vic Snyder: “2010 will be a robust election year during which great forces collide to set the direction for our country for another two years. Over the last several weeks Betsy and I have had discussions...

Arkansas Rep. Vic Snyder announced today he will not seek re-election this year, joining several other Democrats from moderate districts who are opting out of tough re-election campaigns. Snyder, first elected in 1996, never won re-election with less than 58 percent. In 2008 he was not even challenged by a Republican, while John McCain won 54 percent in the district to President Obama's 44 percent -- an increase from 2004, when George W. Bush won by just a 51-48 margin. In Arkansas, Democrats hold three of four House seats, both Senate seats and the governor's mansion. However, McCain carried the...

The National Republican Congressional Committee is targeting three veteran Democrats who voted for the House version of the health care bill in a weeklong round of television ads that will begin airing on Thursday. The new 30-second spots hit Democratic Reps. Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota, Vic Snyder of Arkansas and John M. Spratt Jr. of South Carolina for their votes by using the words of fellow Democratic legislators who opposed the legislation. Among the statements the NRCC uses in it' new ad against Pomeroy is one released by the office of Rep. Dan Boren, D-Okla., when he announced he...

KTHV-TV reports: The forum was led by democratic congressmen Mike Ross and Vic Snyder. They say health care costs are growing at twice the rate of inflation and health insurance will reach a point in the next 10 years were employees and employers won't be able to afford it, they say doing nothing isn't an option. Audience members accused them of supporting a government-backed health plan that would take away Americans' personal choice and freedom.

Congressman Vic Snyder (D, Ark.) has in the past claimed that he is braver than his opponents because he has the back bone to face the hard questions in open debate. But that was before Obamacare came along. Now, Snyder is hiding behind sick kids at a local hospital where he is holding a townhall meeting. Snyder is telling opponents of Obamacare that an "angry protest" would not be appropriate at a hospital where sick kids are being treated. So why hold a townhall there in the first place? Perhaps for the very reason that he can eliminate opposing views...

The political recriminations from the cliffhanger passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement last week are even worse than we thought. Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader, is contemplating revenge against the 15 Democrats who had the nerve to vote for hemispheric growth and progress. The San Francisco Democrat called a caucus gripe session in the wake of last Wednesday's vote, and an article in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call suggested that Democrats who voted yes may lose their favorite committee assignments. Our John Fund reports on OpinionJournal.com that Democratic leaders are especially mad at two Black Caucus...

LITTLE ROCK — Marvin Parks, the Republican nominee for the 2nd District seat, said Thursday that Democratic incumbent Vic Snyder should apologize for dispatching staff members to get videos of the beheadings in Iraq. In a radio interview Thursday, Snyder said he wanted to view the video to get a sense of the brutality of terrorists who have beheaded Americans and foreign hostages in Iraq. But Parks said at a news conference that Snyder's actions and talking about it publicly were insensitive to the families of those killed. Parks said a person does not have to watch a video...

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rkansas House Republican leader Marvin Parks is mobilizing for a race against Democratic Rep. Vic Snyder in the state's 2nd Congressional District. Snyder's move to "test the waters" is the first good news in recent months for the state GOP, which has had trouble recruiting a candidate to take on Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln. "I felt it was time for me to put together an exploratory committee -- and see if I can generate the excitement and the interest and the financial resources to make a competitive race out of it," said Parks, 42, who represents the 46th District in...

First it was the state budget -- with all its nasty wrangling over taxes, schools and prisons -- that was said to be distracting Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee from a possible Senate race. Then it was the special, five-day session that Little Rock lawmakers had to hold earlier this month to deal with of a $200 million spending impasse. Now, at last, the Republican governor can safely turn his sights on Washington -- and the prospect of challenging first-term Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln next year. State Republicans have said that they expect a "consensus candidate" to emerge by mid-May, but...