I didn’t get to mention this myself yesterday because I was in meetings all day and barely had time to get online. But this is too amazing a story for me to pass up. Hero Sheriff elected to clean up the county drug problem shot dead in his car outside the County Court House while eating his lunch. But it turns out the Sheriff was probably a serial rapist who allegedly raped his killer years before he gunned him down. And as for the cleaning up the drugs, well, he was a big user and apparently neck deep in drug running himself. And as for the campaign, well, when the guy who produced his campaign signs asked to be paid, the Sheriff had him arrested for drug dealing. And frankly, it gets freakier from there since it’s not really clear that Sheriff Eugene Crum was the biggest crook in county law enforcement. The big remaining question is whether the Coen Brothers or Tarantino write and direct the film. Check out our full report here.

Harry Reid has managed to streamline the votes today on the temporary funding bill (continuing resolution) so that the Senate can finish its work this afternoon. So instead of votes dragging into Saturday or Sunday, the Senate will wrap up voting today and kick the bill back to the House.

Votes are expected to begin at 12:30 p.m. ET. There will be a series of four votes: Read More

A Republican National Committeeman from Arizona used the phrase “shucking and jiving” to describe President Obama’s handling of Obamacare.

The split within the Senate GOP on full display right now on the Senate floor. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) is pointing the finger at Sens. Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, accusing them of staging a “show.” Corker was also careful to point out that it’s not all Republicans delaying things, it’s just Lee and Cruz.

All of this comes as Harry Reid tried to accelerate the vote on the temporary funding bill so the Senate can kick it back to the House. Lee and Cruz won’t consent to speeding things up. Corker is saying basically enough is enough. More here.

Josh has written before about the goings-on in West Virginia’s Mingo County. “Goings-on” doesn’t do it justice. It’s an epic story that allegedly involves several top local officials. But since Josh last touched on it here, the federal public corruption investigation has widened, a local judge has entered into a plea deal, and a clearer picture of the scope of the investigation has emerged. Hunter Walker has our story on the so-called “courthouse gang.”

Suess the subversive probably would have been less than thrilled with Ted Cruz bandying about “Green Eggs and Ham” on the Senate floor — but he would have recognized the irony.

Shortly after President Obama finished a rousing speech in suburban DC hailing the beginning of enrollment in Obamacare next week, the administration announced that it was delaying enrollment for another month for small businesses and would not have a Spanish-language version of the Obamacare website ready in time for the Oct. 1 enrollment launch.

I like how in the Lynne Cheney-Alan Simpson contretemps, Cheney went from “That simply did not happen” on Monday to “I told him he was out of line” on Thursday.

Ted Cruz, invented by Comedy Central to provide material for Jon Stewart.

Comedian arrested after punching DC foreign policy reporter who was snarking his standup routine on Twitter.