Ed Foster, Oath Keeper-backed former Mayor of Quartzsite, Arizona says his ouster was the product of a conspiracy by the “corrupt” town council and the “Nazi” town police force.
President Obama leaves in place Bush-era smog regulations that his own EPA administrator recently called “legally indefensible.”
For so long we’ve been chronicling the efforts of vote fraud bamboozlers to come up with ways to make it harder for minorities and poor people to vote. So let’s give credit to one of the top bamboozlers, Matthew Vadum, who’s just come out and said we just shouldn’t be making it easy for the working poor to vote in first place. It’s “like handing out burglary tools to criminals.”
If you listen to the establishment press the president’s speech will determine whether the president listens to “liberals” and ditches the move toward economic austerity or “moderates” and Republicans and sticks to budget cutting. In fact, it’s more like the most of the economics profession, the bond market and the “liberals” on one side and Republicans and beltway columnists on the other.
Make no mistake: the 2012 election starts next Thursday. My point isn’t to be over-dramatic or say that any die will be irrevocably cast. But any possibility of a real jobs plan and — just as importantly — the outcome of the congressional debt committee are what the 2012 election will be about. Or to put it more clearly, President Obama needs to make that what the election is about. Read More
Wow, so cutting government spending and eliminating government jobs doesn’t help put people back to work?
Rick Perry is proving to be Michele Bachmann’s kryptonite. Check out these new poll numbers.
What was really behind the bankruptcy of U.S. solar panel manufacturer Solyndra?
The Defense Department issued the following press release Thursday:
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Air Force Major Thomas E. Reitmann of Red Wing, Minn., will be buried on Sept. 8 in Arlington National Cemetery.
I didn’t get a chance yesterday to post this email from TPM Reader TA while we were discussing the jobs speech scheduling throwdown, but I want to make sure it gets into the mix:
While I agree with “JB” that Obama was smart not to make a fight out of the
scheduling issue, I also believe that s/he is wrong in assessing the impact of Boehner’s move as being one that only 100,000 people care about or that no one will think about it one iota.It ignores a critical element of Obama’s base that is particularly sensitive to slights Republicans give the President – the African-American community.