When you look at the ups and downs in the congressional generic, some of the wiggliness is a matter of which pollsters release their data when. But as you can see in the graph after the jump the spread has popped back in the GOP’s direction over the last few days. Read More
Tests of the uniform of that Arizona sheriff’s deputy — whose tale of a desert shootout with drug smugglers raised the eyebrows of forensic experts — are consistent with his account of what happened.
Tea Party to Eric Cantor: What do you mean no government shutdown?
Last night on MSNBC, Lou Dobbs got a chance to address the report in The Nation that undocumented workers were employed by contractors doing work for Dobbs on his property. Appearing with Dobbs was The Nation reporter on the story, Isabel MacDonald. Watch.
White House confirms to TPM that Jim Jones is resigning as national security adviser to President Obama and that his replacement will be the deputy national security adviser Tom Donilon. The official announcement will come at 1 p.m.
Westboro Baptist Church — the Koran-burning, military-funeral protesting Kansas congregation — actually supports the building of the “Ground Zero Mosque.” A member of the church, which had its day at the Supreme Court this week, went so far as to tell TPM that opposing the Park51 project in Manhattan is “un-American.”
Jerry Brown thought he’d hung up the phone after leaving a voicemail last month — but he hadn’t. As the LA Times reports, the ensuing recording caught a Brown aide pondering how to go after Meg Whitman for cutting a deal on police pensions: “What about saying she’s a whore?”
We got a hold of the new TV ad from Democrat Jack Conway in Kentucky on Rand Paul’s slick editing of his previous statements on Medicare.
I know this is the Republican line and has been for a while now, but it’s still a cold splash of water in my face every time I encounter it.
Michael Steele’s statement on the unemployment numbers:
Seventeen consecutive months with higher than 9% unemployment represent the final verdict on the failed economic policies of this White House and the Democrat Congress as voters head to the polls. President Obama and his left wing allies on Capitol Hill have spent trillions of taxpayer dollars with nothing to show for it but a mountain of crippling debt and chronic joblessness. 95,000 more jobs lost provides further evidence that their agenda of more spending, higher taxes, and bigger government is only fueling more economic uncertainty and making it harder to put Americans back to work. After nearly two years of weak leadership and broken promises, the American people will go to the polls in less than a month and reject this Administration’s economic mismanagement.
You can either cry or just laugh.