The GOP put out a tweet this afternoon telling people to vote in the New Jersey special Senate election on the wrong day.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said this afternoon he shares Majority Leader Harry Reid’s optimism that a deal can be reached.
Harry Reid says he hopes to have a deal to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling before this afternoon’s meeting at the White House.
The man who wants to turn a tiny North Dakota town into an Aryan paradise has found some reinforcements. A white supremacist skinhead, his wife, and their five children have apparently moved to the town.
The troublesome tech startup Waywire, which was co-founded by Democratic Senate candidate Cory Booker, is being sold off. He recently left the company amid questions about his role there.
In case you missed the day’s events, while high level negotiations sputtered on, a Tea Party rally including Sen. Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin succeeded in capturing some of the essence of the political world the rejectionist rump of the GOP is now inhabiting in scenes reminiscent of 2009’s Summer of Teh Crazy.
Lindsey Graham doesn’t want Senate Republicans to saddle John Boehner with a debt limit/shutdown deal that doesn’t have the support of a majority of the House GOP conference because it could cost him the speakership.
TPM’s Hunter Walker follows up on yesterday’s Lonegan fireworks with a (long scheduled) sit-down interview with Cory Booker. The interview covers really every aspect of the campaign and Booker’s candidacy, but I wanted to flag his response to yesterday’s story …
“Just imagine being an 18-year-old woman reading that, an 18-year-old high school senior reading that. … When he talked about what it means to be a man. Imagine being a kid being bullied in high school by people who are beating him up saying the same thing. And so, I learned a lot that words have a very powerful effect, especially (from) people who are in positions of authority. So, I think those words were hurtful, and demeaning, and deeply unfortunate, but a reflection of a narrow group of thoughts about our society that i hope we as a chorus of conviction and consciousness in our community can condemn. But I condemn them in a way where — I honestly and sincerely say this on a day that I’m more emotionally raw — I just pray for him and I pray for all of us. May we all elevate in our love.”
Mitt Romney’s famed car elevator mansion receives final approval for construction to begin.
Statement from Jay Carney on today’s Senate GOP filibuster of a clean debt ceiling hike: