White House on NRA ad: “[T]o go so far as to make the safety of the President’s children the subject of an attack ad is repugnant and cowardly.”
A NEH grant to a North Carolina community college library to purchase books about Islam is another example of Christians not being treated fairly, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) claims.
Today at TPMPrime we’re discussing Republican plans to rig the electoral college to keep competitive even with a shrinking voter base.
One of the difficulties of the debt ceiling hostage dramas is that the mechanics are not readily understood. That makes public opinion squishy and tends to enable destructive behavior. But the public seems to be getting it this time. 58% of respondents in the new WaPo/ABC poll say the debt ceiling shouldn’t be held hostage to spending cuts, 36% say it should.
When the New Hampshire Union Leader tells the House Republicans, Guys, don’t be nuts on this debt ceiling thing, you know Boehner and the House firebreathers are losing. Read More
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), the top filibuster reform supporter in the Senate, is answering your questions right now in a TPMPrime Live Chat. Join us.
We’re talking about whether Senate Democrats are going to push forward with deep or more modest filibuster reform. Here’s an update on the issues in play from Sahil Kapur from earlier this week.
A growing number of Republicans seems to have concluded that the risk of a debt ceiling hostage caper outweighs the potential gains.
It takes a lot for the NRA to shock. But this is just beyond disgusting. The NRA has launched a new ad campaign calling President Obama a ‘hypocrite’ for allowing armed Secret Service agents to protect his school aged daughters.
There are so many vile things about this ad. But one thing to note is the ad is really only designed to appeal to people who have a deep — really deep — animosity toward the President. The sort of people who don’t think he and his daughters should be in the White House and wish him the sort of ill citizens should never wish upon a freely elected head of state.
Mark Glaze, director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns tells TPM: “At some point the NRA’s Washington lobbyists may realize that this kind of thing is making them irrelevant. It does nothing but offend the reasonable people who make up the bulk of their country – and the bulk of their own membership.”
The White House is declining comment on the ad.
Oregon Sheriff decides he’ll decide what new national gun regulations do and don’t violate the constitution and won’t permit them to be enforced in his Sheriffdom. Read More