Our reporter Jillian Rayfield enrolls in ‘Beck University’, Glenn Beck’s new online university. Hilarity ensues.
‘Lying’ is a strong word to be used in politics. And it’s usually best to be avoided. But in his press conference today Sen. David Vitter categorically denied reports that his disgraced former staffer was assigned to work on women’s issues even after pleading guilty to a knife attack on his then-girlfriend in 2008. But we’ve reviewed multiple records that show that claim is simply false. Just caught red handed. Read it.
With DC a mix of unwilling and unable to do anything about the faltering recovery, the Fed looks at how it might have to jump into the breach.
TPM Reader VS chimes in …
With the Vitter and Angle stories running side-by-side today, they bring up a question that has to be answered. Paul and Kirk went into hiding–in fact, it seems, all Republican candidates outside South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama seem to be hiding. Rubio has been quiet. Perry wants no debates, if he can get away with it. The theme seems to be that most Republican candidates want to win incognito. It’s not a party of NO–it’s a party of nothing.
You’ve probably noticed that J. Christian Adams, the former DOJ attorney, is making the rounds of Fox and CNN today whistle-blowing about the Obama DOJ’s refusal to bring voter intimidation cases against blacks over the New Black Panther case from election day 2008.
There’s a lot to say about this. And a lot to say about CNN going along with this claptrap. But in case you didn’t already know, Adams was one of the attorneys US Attorney firing scandal luminary Bradley Schlozman hired when he was purging the Civil Rights Division of female, minority and non-right wing attorneys and replacing them with “good Americans.”
Basically, Adams was one of the guys who got in during the bad old days when the crooks and bamboozlers then running the DOJ were purging career attorneys and replacing them with right-wing activists like Schlozman himself. And remember, Schlozman’s role at the Bush DOJ was getting US Attorneys to bring bogus ‘vote fraud’ cases to further the effort to suppress minority and low-income voter turnout.
How soon they forget.
Maybe some headline writers at Reuters have a little too much time on their hands?
Government documents reviewed by TPM show the federal government dramatically underestimated the effects of an oil spill when signing off on the BP Deepwater Horizon lease. Check out our report.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Nathan Deal says when he becomes governor he’s going to use Georgia cops to deport illegal immigrants.