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
So, Anthony Weiner is set to resign from Congress. Since I said I hoped he wouldn’t do so, I feel obliged to comment on his decision. Read More
We’ve been telling you all week about this TV ad attacking Democrat Janice Hahn in the CA-36 race in Los Angeles. Now we’ve talked to the self-described filmmaker behind the ad and to the treasurer of the PAC who funded it. The treasurer tells TPM the ad is so bad he’s considering stepping down from his post.
Meanwhile, the campaign of the Republican candidate who was supposed to benefit from this attack on their Democratic rival says they’re desperate to get the ad off the air because of the backlash against their candidate but that it’s beyond their control.
I should note that to throw together this ad the filmmaker took a short break from his current project — “a post-apocalyptic feature film about the last man on Earth, conservative talk show host Doug Trench, a.k.a. The Trench Mouth.”