The latest pearl of wisdom from Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is that babies who wind up dead in garbage cans without having received any health care or crossed state lines are a perfect example of why health care reform is unconstitutional. I know. Just watch.
Former CIA officer indicted for leaking classified information about Iran to New York Times reporter James Risen in a case in which Risen has defied subpoenas to testify about who his sources were.
Feds indict former Virginia legislator for setting himself up with a cush job at Old Dominion University by pushing through a bill that funded the position using state money. Once funded, ODU gave the legislator job without him even applying for it and never interviewed the other applicants.
Crazed birther disrupts Constitution reading in House when “natural born citizen” passage is read on the floor.
While Reps were reading the portion of the Constitution covering presidential eligibility (“natural born citizen”, a feral birther disrupted the proceedings from the Gallery, yelling “except obama, except obama. Help us Jesus.”
In their reading of the Constitution on the House floor, Republicans are leaving out the parts dealing with all the pre-Civil War unpleasantness about how blacks were to be treated.
As we sit at TPM HQ listening to members of the House read the constitution, our Eric Kleefeld says: “This is the most boring seder I’ve ever witnessed.”