Genius.
Minority Leader Boehner says taxpayers should help BP foot the bill for cleaning up the Gulf.
I think the problem here for BP is that at least with the banks there was a good argument that the collapse of one or more major banks would cause a systemic and catastrophic shock to the real economy. Not seeing that with BP getting in money trouble.
We obtained a copy of Alvin Greene’s hand-printed check to the South Carolina Democratic Party to pay his filing fee to run for U.S. Senate.
Recall the state Democrats rejected his first check because it was on a personal account, not a campaign account. So it looks like he ran out and opened an account and got those generic checks you get when you open a new account.
Jon Stewart to White House press corps: “Are you journalists or are you rushing a sorority?” Watch.
Did Blanche Lincoln’s victory actually give a big boost to tougher Wall Street Reform?
From the trial yesterday we learned that if things hadn’t gone so poorly, Blago and his top aides were planning on having him be the golden boy from Illinois who ran for president in 2008.
It’s not just Dems looking for silver linings at this point. Establishment GOPers getting whipsawed by Tea Partiers and uber-wingers is threatening to become a serious theme of the 2010 election. Rick Scott, the heavy baggage former health care exec is mounting a campaign from the right against the guy who was supposed to be the anointed GOP standard-bearer in the Florida governor’s race, former Rep. Bill McCollum. But now Quinnipiac has a poll out showing Scott’s money has pushed into a double digit lead against McCollum.
It seems like some yet-to-be-revealed outside group may have dropped some independent expenditure money in favor of mystery South Carolina senate candidate Alvin Greene in the last day or two of the campaign. (ed.note: It’s looking like the mystery independent expenditure may be a false alarm. We’re continuing to dig.)
Meanwhile Rep. Clyburn (D-SC) thinks Greene is a “plant” and wants a federal investigation.
Dems launch new ad campaign daring Republicans to make the 2010 election a referendum on repealing Health Care Reform. See the ad.