Former FEMA Director Michael “Brownie” Brown is accusing President Obama of intentionally waiting until the Gulf oil spill became truly catastrophic because he wanted an excuse to shut down offshore drilling.
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Bush and Paulson spokesperson fire back over the Pelosi allegations.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the Bush White House told Secretary Paulson and other top officials not to brief Congress on the extent of the financial crisis during critical days of September 2008.
Her evidence for the claim? Pelosi says Paulson himself admitted it at the key crisis meeting on September 18th.
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We normally think of secession and nullification coming from dead-enders from the South. But really, why should they get all the fun. With the backing of Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty, the Minnesota Republican party just nominated for Governor Tom Emmer who says no federal laws should apply in Minnesota unless 2/3 of both houses of the state legislature approve the law in advance.
British Petroleum has already started hitting up folks on the Alabama coast asking them to essentially waive all future claims against the company in exchange for $5000.
Over the next few days, the Senate will debate and vote on dozens of amendments to the financial reform bill, but there are only four amendments that you really need to pay attention to.
Just last week James Dobson endorsed Trey Grayson, the establishment candidate in the Kentucky Republican Senate primary. Now he’s retracted his endorsement and flipped his support to Rand Paul claiming “senior leaders of the GOP” misinformed him about Paul’s positions.
We’ve obtained some simply stunning shots of the last hours of the Deepwater Horizon before it sank and triggered this epic oil spill:
The Obama administration’s focus for this week’s UN conference on nuclear weapons: preventing a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
The highlight of Saturday’s White House Correspondents Association annual dinner was President Obama’s comedy monologue. There was also some comic-wannabe named Leno. You can compare their performances here.