President Obama went to the G-20 economic summit, and couldn’t avoid questions about what happens next in Syria.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is pretty sure President Obama would be impeached if U.S. troops end up on the ground in Syria.
A telling little vignette about one GOP congressman backing away from his previous support for limited strikes against Syria.
Obama about to begin press conference at the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg. Watch.
Anthony Weiner said it was a dig at his wife’s ethnicity that got him into that shouting match with that dude in Brooklyn. But it’s actually not clear he ever heard the guy say it.
McConnell’s Tea Party opponent Matt Bevin calls that GOP party committee’s “empty dress” comment about McConnell’s Dem opponent Alison Grimes “highly offensive.”
That crazy police chief from Pennsylvania who got canned over his gun firing videos raging against ‘libtards’ and overthrowing the government has teamed up with that crazy guy from Tennessee who got in trouble for his video threatening to “start killing people” if Obama passed a gun control bill.
Fascinating tangent from TPM Reader LB on the Whinyassistan thread …
This is kind of tangential to the rural-urban divide, but in Ohio the township-urban divide has been the hallmark of the Boehner-Kasich-Romney GOP as opposed to the Dole-Taft-Bush GOP.
I mentioned a few moments ago the rather comical case of the murder defendant in Florida who is citing Stand Your Ground and the “Bush Doctrine” to have the charges against him thrown out. But what’s even more amazing, frankly, are the facts of the case.
A few hours before the shooting some neighbors holding a Labor Day barbecue had threatened to “get him.” So William T. Woodward “snuck up” on the family barbecue a bit after midnight and opened fire, killing two of the threateners and seriously injuring the other, who survived despite being shot eleven times. In other words, what we normally call cold blooded murder.
As Woodward’s lawyer explained, “I think legally that term has sort of been evolving especially given changes of our government’s definition of ‘imminent. It’s become more expansive than someone putting a gun right to your head. It’s things that could become, you know, an immediate threat.”