President Obama says Eric Cantor’s story about him storming out of last night’s meeting never happened. Watch the video.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), presumably an Orioles fan, is the man who saved Roger Clemens from possible jail time. Sort of.
Republicans demanding Obama protect seniors from consequences of default.
I’m getting the sense that Republicans have only just now realized that the debt default they’ve been jonesing for for six weeks amounts to a thermonuclear government shutdown. Not just national parks and monuments. Social Security checks, Medicare reimbursements, payments to defense contractors who make the bullets. The whole deal.
Tunisia, Egypt, Libya … News Corp?
Rupert Murdoch, with son Lachlan, in London.
The AP is reporting that the Justice Department is looking into the allegations that News Corp. hacked into the cellphones of 9/11 victims. We’re told to expect a statement from DOJ shortly. More when we have it.
Ben Bernanke tells Congress deep spending cuts could derail an already fragile recovery.
An overhead view of the Three Gorges Dam that spans China’s Yangtze River, part of our inspiring and sobering Slideshow of the greatest engineering feats of modern China.
I’ve mentioned a few times that the abysmally low poll numbers for many freshman Republican governors around the country are not matched by similarly situated freshman Dems. But no one is remotely in the same category as Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York. Not even remotely. New York is in the recession like every other state and he’s pushed through major fiscal retrenchment in Albany. But he’s not only popular, his approval and favorability ratings continue to rise. The latest Siena poll has his favorability rating at 71% and the TPM Poll Average has his approval rating at 63%