Gabriel Sherman, author of the new book on Roger Ailes, talks to TPM about the “deep sadness” he ultimately came to feel for Ailes.
If Jim DeMint concluded that he overreached in his first year as president of the Heritage Foundation and decided he needed to reel things back in to restore relations with Republicans in Congress, with the business wing of the GOP, and with funders, what would it look like?
It would probably look a lot like this week’s hire of Stephen Moore as the new “chief economist” for the foundation. That’s how some conservatives who have been at odds recently with Heritage are seeing it. Dylan Scott reports on the initial reactions and talks with Moore himself.
So how’s Bridgegate affecting Chris Christie’s popularity? Until Hurricane Sandy in September 2012, Christie was a reasonably popular governor – around 50% favorable rating. Then with Sandy he became extremely popular – rocketing up to 70% and never going below 60% in the intervening year and a half. Since Bridgegate he’s fallen from the mid-60s to 46% favorability. In other words, Bridgegate, thus far, has lost Christie virtually all the popularity he earned from his management of the Sandy cataclysm. It’s all captured pretty clearly in this chart after the jump …
On Tuesday, the news broke that Gov. Chris Christie met in September with an executive whose company has been linked to allegations involving Hurricane Sandy relief money and a real estate development. Now, TPM’s own Hunter Walker reports that the ties between the governor and the executive run much deeper. Both have more than a decade of involvement with the same New Jersey charity. You’re going to want to read this.
Another rough moment for the anti-Obamacare deadenders: Medicaid expansion enrollments surge past 6 million people.
This is a work in progress. So I’m going to need your help on this. Because I’m not up to ten yet. But I’m making rapid progress. Here’s what I got so far.
Mounting violent street protests in Ukraine over the perennial conflict between the Russian-oriented east and the West-looking west have garnered little attention to date in the US media. Here are amazing, hellish photos from what’s happening on the ground today into the evening.
Protesters clash with police in central Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
This is live and pretty shocking video of the increasingly violent protests in Kiev, Ukraine (after the jump) …
This may sound like one of my many tongue-in-cheek posts. But it’s actually not. Believe it or not, Rob Ford has a serious shot at winning reelection as Mayor of Toronto this year. Indeed, through everything he’s maintained strong plurality support.