Apparently reelected Supreme Court Justice David Prosser says his campaign will move to block any recount.
At anti-gay marriage House hearing, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) says founding fathers didn’t want gay marriage.
Institutional right comes out hard against Donald Trump.
Orange County Republican party official Marilyn Davenport was caught over the weekend sending around a ‘joke’ email with President Obama in a family portrait of chimpanzees. To people who were offended, she says the email wasn’t intended for them.
The last time the US debt rating was downgraded was in 1996 over fears the then-Republican majority would block a debt-ceiling vote. Eric Cantor, who’s been pushing for House Republicans to do the same thing in 2011, calls today’s Standard & Poors downgrade a “wake up call” … that vindicates him.
Timed to coincide with the growth of the Tea Party, Hollywood has released a new cinematic version of Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s classic 1950s novel for the emotionally adolescent and libertarian ideologues. It’s out and Jill Rayfield has our review.
Trump warns Cantor not to dump on birther issue: “I think it’s a very bad thing for Cantor to have done because I’ll tell you, people love this issue especially in the Republican Party.”
In an interview with TPM just before going on stage at the big Tea Party rally in Boca early this afternoon, Donald Trump ripped into House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) for calling him an unserious candidate and mocking his new crusade over the president’s birth certificate. We’ll have our report for you shortly.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty speaks at a romping Tea Party rally in Boston Friday. Citing failed New York gubernatorial candidate Jimmy McMillan (“The rent is too damn high”), he declares: “The message for us should be this: The government is too damn big.”
Our reporter Jon Terbush reports from the scene.
Our Evan McMorris-Santoro is barreling toward his rendezvous with Tea Party destiny in Boca Raton this morning. Follow his progress here.
Late Update: Our reporter has now arrived at the Boca Tea Party rally, preparing for promised one-on-one interview with Donald Trump. This is Trump’s first official Tea Party appearance. Along with Rep. Allen West (R-FL).