BP share prices have gone off a cliff today. Earlier this afternoon, they were as low as they’ve been since 1997, but they’ve declined farther since then.
Nikki Haley was on Fox & Friends this morning. Let’s just say it wasn’t an inquisition. Watch.
Special Bonus Feature: Dana Perino was guest hosting on the F&F sectional sofa.
The tea party insurrection — part grassroots movement, part co-opted astroturfism — made some inroads last night. Whether Republicans or, indirectly, Democrats were the beneficiaries of the tea party successes will be the real story come fall. We take a look at last night’s tea party losers and winners.
It’s funny how things can be sitting there in plain sight but only to get a lot more attention when a candidate wins a nomination or gets pushed to the center stage of a campaign. Our reporter, Evan McMorris-Santoro, interviewed Sharron back at the Tea Party Express meeting in DC in April. And during their talk, Angle told Evan that she was a member of the far-right “Oath Keepers.”
When we did some more reporting on this yesterday, it turns out that because the “Oath Keepers” have some pretty arcane membership rules — you actually have to be serving in uniform — she may only be an “associate member” rather than a “member”. The idea behind the Oath Keepers is that you pledge that as a soldier or law enforcement officer you won’t obey any orders that conflict with the Tea Party interpretation of the Constitution, including rounding up ordinary Americans into concentration camps. But she says she’s a member and she’s actively solicited their support in her campaign.
Incumbent Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) was forced into a runoff for the Republican nomination by a more conservative opponent.
Orly Taitz lost the GOP primary for California secretary of state.
Tea party fave Sharron Angle has been fighting the dangerous encroachment of government in all its dictatorial, concentration-camp-building scariness since the water fluoridation battles of the early ’90s.
It was pretty clear Sen. Jim DeMint was going to win reelection this year. But now it looks like he won’t even have a challenger.
Former Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA), a TPM fave and bête noire of environmentalists, sputtered across the finish line in third place last night in the Republican primary as he sought to return to Congress.