Did Gov. Brewer set the President up? I’m not sure. But I do think she wanted to get in his face. TPM Reader JS has another take.
Consider the possibility that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s airport spat with President Obama was anything but ad hoc and instead a cunningly orchestrated – and stunningly effective – tactic to neutralize the President’s message of the day.
As I’ve told people a few times: wake me up when the Romney campaign schedules a press call with a psychiatrist. Then I’ll know things are getting serious. This anti-Newt mailer sent out by the Romney campaign isn’t quite that. But it’s close.
Former aides of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) charged criminally for campaigning while on state time back when Walker was the county executive in Milwaukee.
Meet the Oklahoma legislator who wants to make sure you’re not unwittingly eating “aborted human fetuses.”
TPM’s Michael Lester distils a day’s worth of reaction to last night’s SOTU into a striking 100 seconds.
Speaking in Florida moments ago, Newt Gingrich pledged to have a permanent US base on the moon by the end of his second term as president.
Speaking for myself, that sounds awesome. But I have to assume Team Romney will grab on to that and mock him like crazy. I don’t care how public/private you make it. The budgetary toll of a project like that would have to be massive. And I don’t think there are any strong near term business models for doing stuff on the moon.
Here’s the trend line of Florida since December 1st. Chart after the jump … Read More