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07.08.10 | 10:12 am
Mattis To Succeed Petraeus

Marine Gen. Jim Mattis will be President Obama’s nominee to lead the U.S. Central Command.

07.08.10 | 10:10 am
Lilo Makes TPM Debut

There is a Lindsay Lohan connection to U.S. politics after all.

07.08.10 | 10:04 am
More Angle-isms

Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle is at it again.

On opposing exceptions for abortions in cases of rape: Make “a lemon situation into lemonade.”

On Obama forcing BP to set up a $20 billion fund for blowout damages: “Government shouldn’t be doing that to a private company. And I think you named it clearly: It’s a slush fund.”

And then later: “Having had some time to think about it … I shouldn’t have used the term ‘slush fund’; that was incorrect.”

07.08.10 | 9:55 am
Meg Whitman Channels … Obama?

Is Meg Whitman’s California campaign team, made up of a lot of ex-McCain staffers, trying to copy the Obama 2008 playbook?

07.08.10 | 9:44 am
It All Makes Sense Now!

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) continues to deny that his (now former) aide convicted of threatening his girlfriend with a knife worked on women’s issues for the senator; instead he worked on issues like … abortion.

07.08.10 | 8:54 am
If The Heat Doesn’t Get You First, The Death Panels Will

It must be something about the oppressive summer heat that brings out the “death panel” craziness this time of year because it’s back again — on Fox, of course.

07.08.10 | 6:48 am
Gotta Love The Florida GOP

If you’ve not delved into the wacky world of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF), you owe it to yourself to get up to speed on the story (good place to start).

In the latest shenanigans the former party chairman Jim Greer, under indictment for allegedly defrauding the party, is now suing the party for $120,000 severance he claims he was owed.

At the same time, the Greer mess is bleeding over into the governor’s race (you’ll recall that Greer’s trouble already deeply implicates Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate race), where outsider GOP candidate Rick Scott is trying to use Greer against establishment candidate Bill McCollum. That prompted Greer’s successor as party chairman to pop Scott for that effort, even though Scott is the frontrunner for the party nomination.

Sound like fun yet?

07.08.10 | 6:24 am
Space Invaders!

Jon Stewart smacks Fox News for fear-mongering about “Muslims In Space.” Watch.

07.08.10 | 5:55 am
Duck and Cover

By and large, Arizona Democrats are running away from the Obama Administration’s lawsuit to invalidate the state’s new immigration law. As Evan McMorris-Santoro explains, the lawsuit has reignited the immigration debate there in a way that local Democrats are finding less than helpful politically.

07.08.10 | 5:29 am
Tightening?

The latest poll of the California Senate race: Boxer 47, Fiorina 44.