After calling DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz “the most vile, unprofessional, and despicable member of the US House of Representatives,” Rep. Allen West (R-FL) concludes his stinging letter with this blast from the past: “You have proven repeatedly that you are not a Lady, therefore, shall not be afforded due respect from me!”
Dan Savage, on Obama’s support for repeal of DOMA: “I think it’s great, very heartening, in part because it’s clear that the cold, political calculations are adding up in our favor now. We’re seeing significant political movement in our direction because it’s not just the right thing to do, or the just thing, but because, in the long run, it’s the politically smart thing to do.”
Aaron Swartz, the 24-year-old who went from helping to create Reddit to embracing a different brand of progressive activism, has been indicted on federal charges of breaking into MIT and stealing more than four million articles from an online database.
ABC News’ Brian Ross claims he was shoved by aides to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) today while he was trying to chase down the presidential candidate.
TPM Reader JB took one look at this quote from James Murdoch in today’s phone hacking hearing before Parliament and had an epiphany:
And I’m not saying that somebody should have told me. To my knowledge certain things were not known. And when new information came to light, with respect to my knowledge of these events, when the new information came to light, the company acted on it, and the company acted on it in a right and proper way as best the company could. But it’s difficult to say that the company should have been told something if it’s not known that a thing was a known fact to be told.
You get the sense that over the last 24 hours there’s been a decisive shift in the debt ceiling negotiations away from a House-dominated process that was going nowhere to a Senate dominated-process that may find a way out of these deadlocked negotiations. The true turning point may have come a week or so ago, but the shift was hard to detect then and I don’t think there’s any denying it now. Read More
Shorter Boehner: Guys, I need more time to give my conservative members political cover, then maybe we can work out a debt ceiling deal.
It looks like Rupert Murdoch was the victim of a shaving cream pie hurled by a British comedian. Watch.
Apparently someone assaulted Rupert Murdoch just as the hearing before Parliament was taking a break. TV cameras cut away before it could be seen what was happening. Reuters news wire reports: “Man threw white plate with foam on Rupert Murdoch’s face, Rupert’s wife hit him back.”
Video, albeit jumbled, after the jump: Read More
Parliament exposes Rupert Murdoch as conveniently oblivious to the operations of News Corp.