Which was the best Cain-ism of the day?
Was it declaring that he belongs on Mt. Rushmore?
Or was it his claim that men get sexually harassed, too?
Or maybe it was the destined to be immortal “I don’t even know who this lady is!”
Late Update: A late entrant making a strong push: “I’m not an expert on how the brain works.”
The conservatie media backlash against Herman Cain accuser Sharon Bialek is something to behold. Take a look.
A reader sent us a newspaper ad in Maine that opposes a same-day voter registration proposal on the grounds that gays are for it. We looked into it, and you’ll never guess who is behind the ad.
Reacting to the latest in the Herman Cain melodrama today, Rush Limbaugh lamented that political correctness ‘has now spread to behavior — not just speech.”
I think that’s probably awesome enough to speak for itself. But this is just a very funny thing to say. The issue with ‘political correctness’, to the extent it’s reasonable, and I think some of it is, is that speech is a protected thing in our society. So there’s a necessary tension necessarily at play. But I think we’ve always been pretty down with the idea that you can’t just take any action you want, right? I don’t like you. So I bonk you on the head. But don’t come at me with your anti-bonking ‘political correctness’! Trying to control who I am, man!
Law professor by day, TPM reader by night:
I think what’s important about Seven-Sky is not so much that there are now two appellate opinions by conservative judges that uphold the Affordable Care Act as that the opinion is so well crafted.
Congressional Democrats, rejoicing over Bill Daley’s reduced portfolio as President Obama’s chief of staff, tell TPM the change occurred several weeks ago and is already yielding a more productive working relationship with the White House.
With today’s ruling by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the individual insurance mandate in the health care reform law, we may have reached the point where the weight of jurisprudence now favors the Supreme Court upholding the law.
Of course, the Supreme Court doesn’t weigh the number of rulings in favor against those opposed to reach its own decision — and this court in particular has not been shy about putting bold new imprimaturs on the law. So take my hunch for what it’s worth, but my sense is there is enough disagreement among conservatives legal minds on this Commerce Clause issue (see Brett Kavanaugh’s dissent today, for example) that the Supreme Court will stop short of a wholesale reworking of the modern constitutional underpinning in this area.
Happy to have our con law readers weigh in here.