Rand Paul: “Does anybody remember Charlie Sheen when he was kind of going crazy…And he was going around, jumping around saying ‘Winning, winning, we’re winning. Well I kind of feel like that, we are winning. And I’m not on any drugs.”
Cuz things came out so well for Charlie Sheen.
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“It’s not just Tom’s good name that somehow managed to get thrown under the bus, but the people who in my estimation crossed the line from prosecution to persecution, they essentially ruined what was supposed to be his golden years,” said DeLay’s attorney Brian Wice. “For that, they’re going to have to answer to a higher authority than the Court of Appeals.”
Like at virtually every other stage in his life, basically everybody in close proximity to Ted Cruz hates him.
House Speaker John Boehner caves to conservatives and goes all-in for defunding Obamacare.
McCain: To think we can repeal Obamacare “is not rational.” Watch.
It’s easy to lose track of the sheer level of ridiculousness of the battle now breaking out between House Republican leaders and the Ted Cruz posse in the Senate. They’re attacking each other over who’s hardcore enough to fight to the end in their completely phony battle to defund Obamacare. (For Boehner there must be some element of ‘You got us into this mess by ginning up your yahoos. So back atcha, douche!’) It’s not quite the People’s Front of Judea versus the Judean People’s Front or Kabuki theater. Or maybe it’s both of them in the same Potemkin Village. But we’re now in a high-octane ‘man up’ fight between Boehner and Cruz over the dingbat manuever has got all his followers ginned up about but which everyone knows is destined to fail.
Two motorists with concealed carry permits shoot each other to death in road rage incident.
After his conviction was overturned today, Tom DeLay’s wife tells TPM “he was being punished by the liberals.”
Here’s a new Koch-funded anti-Obamacare video campaign which has a pretty creepy (and kinda rapey?) Uncle Sam sneaking into your gynecologist’s office to give you a surprise vaginal exam.