Usually the elected official gets indicted in a corruption scandal – not spouses or relatives, even when they may have benefited from the elected’s bad acts. Here’s a pretty good explanation of why Maureen McDonnell broke that mold.
Coming off Huckabee’s comments this morning about incentivizing horny women with birth control, Rep. Louis Gohmert says government tries to “lure” single moms into “servitude” with welfare. Watch.
At Republican National Committee winter conference, former and future presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says government shouldn’t be underwriting the horniness of horny women with birth control.
See the quote for yourself at the link above. But there’s already a lot of pushback saying that the words might have been ill-chosen but if you really read the comments in their entirety … No. Sorry. Read the comments. The premise and meaning is crystal clear: birth control is something for women who can’t keep their legs closed.
Subtext: Female desire is scaaaaaaarrrrrrryyyyyyy …
George Zimmerman releases his latest work of art in his profiting off Trayvon Martin’s murder business.
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.