Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), his party’s nominee for U.S. Senate, was one of the first to pledge to repeal the new health care reform law, and was reiterating it as recently as mid-March. Now he won’t repeat that pledge in public.
The Washington Times issues statement denying the report, on Drudge, that it’s up for sale.
That’s a wedding photo of two of the members of the Christian militia group called Hutaree, posted on Facebook by the bride, who along with her husband and two of his sons were among the nine charged by the feds over the weekend.
As Justin Elliott puts it, “For the leading family of Hutaree, the armed Christian group in Michigan accused of plotting to kill police, membership in the militia went beyond paramilitary training sessions and into something resembling a full-blown lifestyle choice.”
The rest of Justin’s report and more pics are here.
An expert on right-wing militias tells TPMmuckraker that the cultists/militiamen known as the Hutaree were “right smack in the middle of the militia movement.”
The Philadelphia man charged with threatening to kill Rep. Eric Cantor and his family was arrested last year for allegedly threatening to have the angel Gabriel kill his roommate.
I can’t believe that Obama wasn’t tweaking Mitt Romney this morning when he told NBC that his health care plan is an awful lot like Mitt’s:
When you actually look at the bill itself, it incorporates all sorts of Republican ideas. I mean a lot of commentators have said this is sort of similar to the bill that Mitt Romney, the Republican Governor and now presidential candidate, passed in Massachusetts.
Romney has been scrambling to distance himself from Obama’s plan and not get stuck on the wrong side of a litmus test issue for conservatives, so Obama’s helpful reminder that the two plans are similar is like throwing a drowning man an anchor.
It’s not easy being a Southern Democrat these days, but Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln hasn’t helped herself. Her effort to triangulate her way to re-election has only succeeded in earning her a primary opponent and she’s still stuck with horrible poll numbers for a general election that’s just six months away.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on a visit to the U.S., expressed astonishment at the health care reform debate here: “Welcome to the club of states who don’t turn their back on the sick and the poor.” That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
The ninth Hutaree cultist-cum-militiaman, and the only one of the group who remained a fugitive after the weekend raids, has surrendered to authorities.
Pics from the weekend Tea Party Express rally in the Nevada desert:
