Here was our rather tortured attempt today to find out whether Cory Booker, Democratic Senate nominee, is still soliciting new potential investors for his tech start-up #Waywire. Involved a minor spokesperson blow up. But nothing of Weiner proportions.
Wednesday rolls around and the conversation turns to Cory Booker, clowns and Hooters.
I’m starting to feel like I’m watching an episode of Intervention. Having given up on the idea of tying Obamacare defunding to a government shutdown, House Republicans are now pushing to tie it to defaulting on the national debt.
We’re used to the Beauty Queen resigning over amateur nude photos or some dabbling with porn. It’s almost a cliche and perhaps more frequent with the progressive Weinerization of American culture. But here’s a new twist on it. Utah beauty pageant winner Kendra McKenzie Gill surrendered her crown after being caught terrorizing her town with homemade “bottle bombs”, “driving around town and throwing plastic bottles filled with toilet bowl cleaner and shrapnel at people and property.”
McConnell’s primary challenger, Matt Bevin, asks McConnell whether he’s man enough to shutdown the government over Obamacare.
With all the responses to my post on Ted Cruz and his eligibility for the presidency, I wanted to flag a couple additional issues. One sub-division of birtherism hinges on residency requirements for US citizen mothers giving birth abroad. I’ve almost been ambivalent about this sub-section of birtherism because I’m not certain the laws are actually constitutional. The most stringent of these standards (INA Act 301) holds that if you’re born abroad and have only a single parent who is a US citizen that person must have been “physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years.”
Just to be clear, Cruz is totally in the clear on this since his mother meets those requirements.
But what I did not realize that the law differs if you’re parent was the father. TPM Reader JF brings us up to speed on this part of the law …
First, I agree with you entirely that Ted Cruz is a natural born citizen eligible to run for President.
Nonetheless, I think one thing you said in your post today (“Okay, People, Enough”) was sufficiently wrong to be worth clarifying. You wrote, “being born to an American citizen, no matter where you were born, makes you an American citizen.” But actually, this is not true. Ted Cruz should thank his lucky stars that his mother was the citizen and his father the not-yet-citizen, rather than the other way around, and/or that his parents were married. Because he definitely needed at least one of those things to be true.
5 Reasons to worry that Republicans really will break the country this fall.
Newt to GOP: “We have to get beyond being anti-Obama.”
Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) and his wife, former Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson, are both going to prison for misusing campaign funds. A federal judge this afternoon sentenced him to 2 1/2 years and her to a year.