A revealing interview on CNN with Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) who got tea partied right out of office, losing in the GOP primary. He gives a taste of the Crazy he encountered on the campaign trail. Watch.
New report from AP on the lengths to which the Bush Administration went to hide suspected terrorist detainees from the U.S. court system.
For weeks the second and third place candidates for the Tennessee Republican gubernatorial nomination have been battling it out to see if they could say something crazy enough to take the lead away from Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam.
Rep. Zach Wamp threatened to have Tennessee secede from the United States over Health Care Reform unless voters force its repeal before 2012. Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey said the 1st Amendment may not apply to Islam since its a cult and not a religion.
Tonight though the relatively moderate Haslam crushed Wamp and Ramsey, beating first runner up Wamp by 19 points.
I’m not sure which is weirder.
That something like everybody in Nevada public life — including a growing and reasonably substantial number of Republicans — are coming out for Harry Reid and against Sharron Angle.
Or that Sharron Angle could very well still win in November.
Now Lois Tarkanian, wife of the former UNLV coach and mother of Danny Tarkanian, who Angle beat in the primary, is going to campaign tomorrow with Reid to “call out Sharron Angle’s extreme and dangerous positions against Nevada’s working families.”
Ben Quayle, son of former Veep Dan Quayle, gets dinged for appearing in his campaign commercial with kids that weren’t his. But he comes back on day two with a pretty good answer for his critics.
This is a fascinating story.
We noted recently that Minnesota-based Target had availed itself of the new freedom created by the Citizen’s United decision to give $150,000 to support far-right Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer. And in so doing they reaped a big backlash. Target’s aim seems to have been to support Emmer’s economic policies. But the backlash came over Emmer’s extremely anti-gay policy stands. (He’s also really against waiters.)
Target’s CEO has now taken the pretty extraordinary step of issuing a public apology for the donation.
Target, as it happens, has a quite good corporate record on LGBT issues and workplace policies. So it’s a fascinating example of how cross-cutting and complicated Citizen’s United giving may turn out to be.
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In today’s TPM Slideshow: Californians celebrating Court decision overturning Prop 8.
