Disgraced ex-FEMA Director Michael Brown just got his own primetime talk radio show in Denver.
Sen. Landrieu’s office was swept for bugs and other electronic surveillance devices following Monday’s alleged phone tampering incident, TPMmuckraker has learned.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), on health care reform:
The opponents of reform have found their bumper sticker, their slogan, their rallying cry, it’s one word: No. You can read that on a bumper.
Our bumper sticker has — it’s just way too many words. And it says, “Continued on next bumper sticker.”
Dude has not lost the funny.
David Axelrod concedes the White House didn’t have a plan for what to do about health care reform if Democrats lost the Massachusetts election.
“The truth is the flares went up about 10 days before that election,” Axelrod told reporters this afternoon. “There wasn’t much discussion about the implications if the thing went the other way.”
Christina Bellantoni has more.
Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office is dismissing claims by a lawyer for one of the New Orleans plumbers that the whole scheme was just a prank to embarrass Landrieu. In a statement to TPMmuckraker, Landrieu’s press secretary calls the explanation “feeble”:
The fact remains that they perpetrated a false identity scheme on building security by posing as telephone workers and attempted to manipulate the phones in her office. The only people these four individuals have embarrassed are themselves and their families.
Justin Elliott has more.
I just saw Jordan Sekulow, who seems to be right-wing legal commentator Jay Sekulow’s son, claiming that the president was wrong in pointing out that the new Supreme Court decision opens the flood gates to foreign money in American campaigns. That’s wrong. The president is clearly correct. And it’s only a highly tendentious argument that claims otherwise. But what stands out to me is how sensitive Republicans seem on this point — Alito included. This is an important tell.
Andrew Breitbart just went on David Shuster’s show. And I think Andrew’s new angle is that he’s the only truly objective and disinterested commentator on his own employee’s criminal conduct, which I guess is a point of pride in a way.
This was truly the most unhinged performance I’ve seen since Shuster made a laughing stock of and pretty much put an end to the fifteen minutes of fame of Orly Taitz.
At some level I admire Breitbart’s insistence on turning any question about anything into an attack based on why the federal government hasn’t turned itself over entirely to investigating ACORN. But this performance was definitely in shark-jumping territory. For the ages.
Here’s the video.
The House Ethics Committee has released a perfunctory statement from its chair and ranking member announcing that the committee has decided that Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) has not violated any House rules and ending its investigation into whether Stark was properly receiving a tax credit involving a house in Maryland.
The committee vote was unanimous, but there’s more to this story … more soon.