The first GOP presidential primary debate with all the major candidates (save Jon Huntsman) gets underway at 8 p.m. ET tonight. We’ll be here covering it, with Josh liveblogging it, and ongoing updates at TPM’s GOP Debate Wire.
Back by popular demand! You asked for it, repeatedly!, and now it’s back for at least a limited run. Maybe longer. Enjoy:
For your viewing pleasure, we’ve posted a larger format version here.
A really must see chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Workers’ Share of National Income over recent decades. A stunning fall over the last couple decades.
Wash Times pulls piece claiming that Rep. Weiner is secret Muslim.
For years I’ve made it a habit not to say people should resign their offices or not resign their offices. Not because it’s a line I don’t want to cross but because really at a basic level I don’t care. It’s just not on my menu of my concerns. But at this point, I think I need to make a confession: I don’t want Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) to resign.
There, I said it. It’s off my chest. Read More
Majority Leader Eric Cantor calls on Dems to strip Rep. Weiner of his committee assignments.
Number of days Rep. Bill Jefferson (D-LA) remained a member of the House of Representatives without caucus leader Nancy Pelosi calling on him to resign after FBI agents raided his home and found $90,000 in cash in his freezer : 1249.
Number of days before calling on him to step down from the House Ways & Means Committee: 294.
You could say that bin Laden deatherism has gone to new depths.
Bill Warren, an experienced diver/deep sea salvage operator and apparently a also a pretty big doofus, announces plans to find bin Laden’s body, photograph it and run his own DNA tests because he doesn’t believe President Obama’s claims that bin Laden is really dead.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the “sovereign citizen” movement … and more.