As near as I can tell, besides her father and Erick Erickson, virtually every Republican I can think of came out crapping on Liz Cheney’s decision to carpet bag into Wyoming and trying to unseat resolutely boring sitting Sen. Mike Enzi. And TPM Reader LW thinks Cheney may end up rueing the day …
FWIW, I think Liz Cheney just made a fatal career move. Having lived in WY for 35 years, I do not believe that Liz can beat Enzi. I think this is going to cause all kinds of hard feelings in Wyoming because this kind of disrespect to a man who has done nothing to deserve being disrespected in this way will simply not sit well. It’s a very east coast kind of move (think Cory Booker) and will only serve to remind people that Liz Cheney has absolutely no real history in Wyoming.
Mitch Daniels is now President of Purdue University. But back when he was Governor of Indiana he was determined to eliminate filth and liberal “propaganda” from the state school and University system. In addition Daniels wants to cut funding for a program led by a university professor who frequently criticized his education policy. But the big thing was left wing ‘propaganda’. And the most notable case was that he was determined to get assurances that after Howard Zinn’s death none of the radical historian’s books were being used for teaching purposes in the state. Read More
So today on the Rush Limbaugh show, Rush excitedly proclaimed that because of Rachel Jeantel’s interview, he’s now allowed to say ‘Nigga’. Video and text after the jump … Read More
Just a quick observation. The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau serves a five year term. Ignoring Rich Cordray’s ambitions beyond consumer protection for a second, if the GOP had confirmed him in, say, early 2012, his post would have expired in 2017, just as President Rubio was taking office.
If he decides to stick it out the full five years, he’ll be running things until mid 2018.
There’s no royal baby yet, but that won’t stop the folks on cable TV from spending loads of time talking about it.
Fox: Nationwide Trayvon protests turning into “Tsunami of Anti-Capitalism”. Video after the jump … Read More
Fox: Nationwide Trayvon protests turning into “Tsunami of Anti-Capitalism”. Video after the jump … Read More
If you take one thing away from the de-escalating nuclear option fight in the Senate, it should be that there’s very little appetite among senators for doing away with the filibuster on the merits. In fact, if you thought that the fight reflected a growing sense among Democrats that the Senate’s anti-majoritarian rules have crippled the body, you weren’t paying enough attention.
What the outcome establishes is that there’s a limit to norm-breaking in the Senate, and that Harry Reid and the Democratic caucus will reluctantly and narrowly change the rules if those norms aren’t ultimately restored. But they’d really prefer to leave minority powers in tact if at all possible. And ironically, the whole fight underscores how much those limits have been stretched in just the last eight years, since the old GOP majority used the same threat to similar effect. Read More
If you’re accused of sexual harassment and your pushback is ‘hey, I’m a hugger’ you’ve probably got a problem. Watch.
Having asked what it would look like if planets were as close to earth as the moon, today we ask, what would it look like if New York was nestled down in the center of the Grand Canyon — all to scale. Look.