After epic debate fail Pawlenty finally brings Romney the whuppass on twitter.
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) tells McKinsey & Co. to come clean about its dodgy health care reform study.
Rep. Weiner (D-NY) officially announced his resignation today in what is normally a lunchroom at the National Council of Jewish Women building in Brooklyn. Milling around were various seniors taking in the spectacle. So TPM Reporter Eric Lach, who was there on the scene, spoke to Esther, 92, who called Weiner’s demise “a shame.”
“People get away with worse,” said Esther, who declined to provide her last name. “Everybody has hangups.”
Treasurer of ‘Turn Right USA’ SuperPAC says he might resign over offensive TV ad. “It’s not something I would have produced. I have a little bit more class than that,” treasurer Claude Todoroff told TPM in an interview. “I just don’t approve of that video. ‘Gimme the money bitch’ and a person doing a pole dance. … that’s not the kind of image I’d like to display.”
With our long national nightmare of Weiner jokes about to end, one additional observation on why the House Democratic leadership was so eager to push Anthony Weiner out.
My understanding is that part of the deal that allowed Nancy Pelosi to retain her top dog status in the House Democratic Caucus after Democrats lost the majority in November involved giving a new generation of House Democrats a higher profile as spokespeople for the caucus. The rationale at least was that the caucus could signal change by putting forward fresh faces even as the entire leadership retained their official positions. The two most prominent of those new fresh faces were Anthony Weiner and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Read More