A few days ago Sharron Angle was threatening to sue Harry Reid for reposting her old website to show the positions she was taking. Now she says … she’s glad he did it.
Tea partiers in Iowa have covered over the billboard featuring Hitler, Obama and Lenin.
Republican Senate candidates in Colorado try to outdo one another on how big of a threat Obama is to the Union.
That Iranian scientist who apparently defected to the U.S. a year ago then changed his mind and decided he wanted to return to Iran boarded a flight at Dulles airport outside of Washington last night, bound for home. ABC News managed to get a photo of his departure: Read More
Bill O’Reilly schools Sarah Palin on immigration reform. Watch.
The latest poll of the Pennsylvania Senate race shows Rep. Joe Sestak (D) and former Rep. Pat Toomey (R) still in a dead heat at 43 apiece, which is just about where the TPM Poll Average shows the race to be right now: Read More
At the core of tea partiers’ “outrage” over the NAACP resolution condemning racist elements of their movement is the idea that the new Black Panther Party is overtly racist and the NAACP doesn’t see fit to condemn it. It’s part of the very old and very worn trick of using “hypocrisy” to shrug off any responsibility for racism.
But, for the record, NAACP president Benjamin Jealous tells TPM that racism by the new Black Panthers has to go, too: “Our message to them is the same thing. They should not tolerate racism and bigotry in their ranks. Move those people out of your organization.”
Jealous also puts the new Black Panther wannabes in what I think is proper perspective: “The Black Panther party is a flea compared to the tea party dog.”
Evan McMorris-Santoro has our report on the right’s high dudgeon over the NAACP’s tea party resolution.
Some one or some group in Utah has sent media and law enforcement a list of what they claim are 1,300 illegal immigrants in the state, demanding that they be deported. This list includes names, names of children, and other identifying information like Social Security numbers.
TPM’s round-up of Republicans hating on the unemployed (or as one GOPer called them, “hobos”).