Recently released Jack Abramoff gets a new gig running a kosher pizzeria in Baltimore.
Aficionados will remember that before the fall, in addition to being the most flashy and one of the most powerful lobbyists in DC, Abramoff was the owner of the uber-schmancy DC restaurant Signatures. Read More
Watch as Spirit Airlines demonstrates how to lose customers in entire region of the country because of an ad in incredibly poor taste.
Check out the funny oil spill humor. “Check out the oil on our beaches!” On our beaches the oil is on the babes! Seriously check it out. How long before the apology?
It’s being reported that Gen. McChrystal has submitted his resignation to President Obama and Secretary Gates. And that’s being played in some publications as meaning McChrystal’s out.
Not even close. It’s entirely possible that McChrystal will be out this afternoon. But in the present circumstances McChrystal submitting his resignation is a given; it is absolutely essential for him to do. He has no choice. And it goes without saying.
The question is whether Obama and Gates choose to accept. His submitting his resignation simply isn’t the bombshell some are presenting it as.
(It’s definitely a scoop for the folks reporting it correctly.)
Wait till you hear that the resignation has been accepted.
Late Update: Like I told you, now there’s further clarification. McChrystal has “offered to resign.” To be perfectly clear: great scoop from Joe Klein. Wish we would have gotten it. But the offer to resign, even submitting your resignation isn’t the same as having it accepted. And in this case, it almost goes without saying. Don’t be misled.
Ret. Adm. Joe Sestak, now running for senate in Pennsylvania, tells local Fox affiliate: no rush to judgment on McChrystal.
Did the Eyjafjallajokull Volcano end up (maybe) costing Gen. McChrystal his job?
Here’s one eye-popper likely to come out of tonight’s run-off in South Carolina. Strom Thurmond’s son Paul (yes, Strom was siring children well into geezerdom) is probably going to get beat in the race for the GOP nomination in South Carolina’s 1st congressional district by a right-wing, Tea Partying, Palin-backed African-American candidate named Tim Scott.
Now President Karzai is reportedly piping up, saying he supports Gen. McChrystal, hopes he’ll stay.
Levin’s statement after the jump … Read More
If you haven’t been paying much attention to the Pennsylvania Senate race it might surprise you to learn that since the May 18 Democratic primary, when Rep. Joe Sestak defeated incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter, Sestak has been polling very well against the Republican nominee, former Rep. Pat Toomey (R). That’s in pretty sharp contrast with how well Sestak polled against Toomey before the primary, in a hypothetical matchup. The latest poll out today has the race dead even. You can see the tightening of the race in this chart of the TPM Poll Average of the race: Read More