Republicans have dealt with some embarrassing moments on the House floor over the past year, but none so revealing or damning as today’s snafu, when they yanked a bill to fund the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. Even the recent farm bill fiasco wasn’t as significant an indictment of the GOP’s governing potential.
It might look like a minor hiccup, or a symbolic error. But it spells doom for the party’s near-term budget strategy and underscores just how bogus the party’s broader agenda really is and has been for the last four years. Read More
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When I first heard about this I was certain it was a joke since it was presented as ‘back in the day Rep. Weiner introduced a bill to bring in more smokin’ hot babes from overseas’. But actually, that’s more or less what he did. Read More
Fox News has followed up pretty the ‘greatest’ Fox News interview in history with Reza Aslan with perhaps the second best with veteran right-wing ‘media bias’ dingbat Brent Bozell who says they were critical questions that had to be asked. Watch.
Liberal Dems going to the mat big time to block a Larry Summers appointment as Fed Chair.
As you can see, Reza Aslan says he feels bad for the Fox News host who asked him those ridiculous questions about how he got off writing about Jesus when, despite his academic credentials, he’s a Muslim. Well, ask Reza your own question. He’ll be joining us for a TPMPrime Live Chat tomorrow at 5:30 PM eastern. Get your questions in now.
For all of you here for the first time to hear more about “slut bags” we’ve also got this scorcher on the new filibuster face off over Obama’s judicial nominees.
TPM’s Hunter Walker was interviewing Anthony Weiner’s communications director today for information that appeared in this piece this afternoon. But during the discussion Barbara Morgan went off on Olivia Nuzzi, the ex-Weiner intern who quit recently and just published a pretty damning run-down of the experience in the New York Daily News, calling Nuzzi a fame hungry “bitch”, a “slutbag,” a “twat,” and “cunt” while threatening to sue her.
Here’s the story.
