Rand Paul says no one in Congress has a “stronger belief in minority rights” than me. Would think those that don’t have white supremacists on staff probably qualify but who knows.
Since everyone misunderstood and assumed Anthony Weiner stopped sexting after he resigned from Congress in 2011, he’s not surprisingly now being pressed on well, just when did you stop. And he’s now given an answer: “Last summer. Yeah, roughly August. Maybe even a little earlier than that.”
This then is his line in the digital sand. Nothing after August 2012, maybe even nothing after July 2012. Presumably if something else comes up from April, that’s it.
On the other hand, why should that really be it? We can probably just keep doing this every few days, rinse, repeat start over.
However, it does raise an intriguing possibility. Right, fundraiser. August starts in little more than a week. So an opportunity based on Weiner’s one year anniversary on the wagon. You heard it here first.
Swedish politician accidentally posts picture of his private parts on Instagram.
President Obama tried to turn the conversation back toward the economy, but had to compete with Republican opposition and goats on slides.
Matt Bevin, McConnell’s newly announced Tea Party challenger for next year’s Republican Senate nomination, says he’s ready to spend his own money on the campaign (of which he apparently has a lot). Meanwhile, the main Tea Party and Tea Party-leaning PACs, the ones who sometimes take out viable candidates, are saying they’re at least open to considering supporting Bevin.
The first President Bush shaves his head in solidarity with the 2 year old son of a member of his security detail who is undergoing treatment for leukemia.
As part of a federal civil rights investigation triggered by students’ complaints, one USC student claims campus police told her that she was not raped because her assailant did not ejaculate inside of her.
My favorite detail in this story about the businessman who’s now dragging down Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is that he once tried to create less-toxic cigarettes by using tobacco that had been nuked in a microwave. The idea didn’t take off, apparently, and now it’s on the long list of failed and sometimes troubled business ideas that marked his career before he became tied to some of the biggest Republican names in Virginia politics, including McDonnell and the man the GOP hopes will succeed him, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Read the whole thing here.
What? I already said, it’s a word cloud of Obama’s speech.
Jenn Senior looks at Weiner, marriage and narcissism. This one’s good.