This is the manila envelope House GOP freshmen taped to the door of the U.S. Senate this morning:
In it is a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) imploring the Senate to pass its own budget bill, to take the heat off House Republicans. OK, that last part is my editorial comment. But that’s the essence of what’s happening. Benjy Sarlin explains.
Rachel Maddow goes to town with Evan McMorris Santoro’s Tuesday piece on a right-wing think tank FOIAing university professors’ emails to see what communications they’ve had with Rachel Maddow. Watch it.
Andrew Breitbart says he’s “excited” for Shirley Sherrod slander case, claims it’s all about Pigford.
Remember the judge who last week issued a preliminary injunction against Wisconsin Gov. Walker’s anti-union legislation? After Wisconsin Republicans defied that order on Friday, everybody met in court again today. The judge again enjoined any efforts to put the law into effect. And the Governor’s representative again said, who cares?
If you smuggle one of the US military’s unmanned surveillance drones into the US and want to sell it, don’t try to sell it on eBay.
Breaking out of Wisconsin: It looks like that judge whose restraining order was defied by state Republicans isn’t sitting still for what happened. More shortly.
Cantor announces: No more emergency measures to fund the government. Okay our cuts or we’re shutting it down.
GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain had told Think Progress that he would not appoint any Muslims to federal jobs. But it seems even this stalwart may be going soft. Cain now says he’d consider appointing Muslims who made a special pledge not to try to sneak any sharia in on the sly and keep extra special loyal to the Constitution.
Democrats and Republicans both prepping for the seemingly inevitable government shutdown.
Three state universities in Michigan have been FOIAed by a conservative think tank demanding professors’ emails that contain any reference to the Wisconsin labor battle, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) or MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, TPM has learned.