Politicians can also be slimy horndogs in a statehouse near you. This report comes from California, where Assemblyman Michael Duvall, a Republican who has been praised for his “family values” positions, is in hot water after a report by KCAL, which I post after the jump. Look for the reporter who asks this priceless question: [...]
Last week I said that it would probably be best for Van Jones–who used to go around saying that he was a communist and then signed a “truther” petition–to resign his job as one of the President’s environmental advisers. Now, it seems, the Republicans have designated a former birther–that is, one of those paranoid nitwits [...]
Andrew Sullivan is right on target about why the budget deficits–and national debt–are so high: it’s the Republicans, obviously.
I just got my copy of “The Governor,” the new memoir by disgraced Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. Some of the headlines have been pointed to elsewhere, including Blagojevich’s claim that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel tried lay the groundwork for a return to his House seat after two years as Obama’s Chief of [...]
Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd has decided to stay at the helm of the Banking Committee. Dodd was the next-most-senior senator on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee after Ted Kennedy – whose desk remains shrouded in black on the Senate floor and adourned with flowers as colleagues mourn his passing. Dodd could’ve switched to [...]
Last month, it was reported that the Pakistanis were modifying missiles that we had given them for potential use against India. Now we learn that A.Q. Khan gleefully passed nuclear secrets and sources along to the Iranians:
Forget the Senate, here’s a story from me about what’s going on in the House on health care. House leaders have pulled back from their once-aggressive schedule. “I have no timetable” for passage of a bill, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters yesterday. While eschewing the idea that they would wait for the Senate [...]
It’s still a lie. Sarah Palin is back on “death panels” in the Wall Street Journal. UPDATE: Worth reading her circular logic in this justification for making things up. Apparently, it was okay to spread a falsehood, because people actually believed it: Establishment voices dismissed that phrase, but it rang true for many Americans.
Ezra has it here.
Unfortunately, Karen, the president’s bizarrely controversial back-to-school remarks didn’t include any references to iPod use, so you’ll have to continue waging that battle on your own with the Swampkids. He did, however, address the issue of Facebook this morning at a visit to Wakefield High School in Arlington. In response to a question from a [...]
