I know Mort Zuckerman has always had his critics. But I don’t know that I’ve ever heard him as atomically lame as he is on MSNBC this afternoon. In particular, he just claimed that Super Committee Republicans proposed a plan that had $250 billion of new tax revenues, almost all of which would come from the wealthiest Americans.
I’m sitting here talking to my congressional reporters. And as I thought, that claim is demonstrably false. I wonder what white papers he’s smoking?
He seems just to be parroting claims from Rep. Hensarling (R) and Sen. Toomey (R), but ones where the available numbers simply didn’t back up the claims.
I’m still very far from believing Newt Gingrich has any real shot at the GOP nomination. But Dems can almost taste it, rolling out plans to ‘Newter’ Republican candidates across the country.
Pennsylvania Republicans are backing off plans to break up the state’s electoral votes to help game the 2012 election.
Fox News on pepper spray: “It’s a food product, essentially.”
The Chinese solar power industry is now accusing the US of dumping.
A series of dramatic images from the deadly clashes over the past 72 hours in Cairo.
Evan McMorris-Santoro takes a look at what popped the Herman Cain balloon in today’s Campaign In 100 Seconds.
Romney walking away fast from his proposal to privatize the VA.
The FBI was apparently worried that the case could get tossed because of entrapment issues.