A former Bush II official who’s also Muslim decries the GOP-led witch hunt for Hill interns/Muslim “infiltrators,” in an interview with TPMmuckraker: “Really what they’re trying to do here is to scare otherwise thoughtful members and chiefs of staff from hiring Muslims.”
The NRA asks the question on all our minds: Should Hillary Clinton team up with third-world dictators to take away our guns?
I’m going to go way out on a limb here: Professional wrestling and necrophilia have never come up together in a political campaign before today.
Now the YouTube videos of those old WWE sketches that Connecticut Democrats were flagging to reporters as a hit on Linda McMahon have been yanked after WWE complained of copyright infringement.
Back in July we brought you the story of Dr. David McKalip, the Tea Party movement anti-anti-reform activist who was caught circulating a racist email with a photo of loincloth wearing President Obama in the guise of a witch-doctor.
After we publicized the email, McKalip apologized, later said he was withdrawing from the public debate over health care and felt compelled to resign as the head of the local medical association.
So we were surprised when TPM Reader JG let us know that last night McKalip resurfaced as an expert on health care reform for none other than Glenn Beck at Beck’s town hall style meeting to discuss the horrors of reform. Read More
In a policy change, the Obama Administration will turn a blind eye to medical marijuana use in states that allow it. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
A new progressive TV ad campaign is on the air in Nevada asking: “Is Harry Reid strong enough?“
PA GOP rolls out new ad with hammer and sickle ‘O’ in Obama’s name.
The Senate Finance Committee vote was a relatively small procedural hurdle in itself — despite all the hoopla. But it was a useful marker, distinguishing between a period when a lot of the health care politicking was done in the open and now when most of it is being done behind closed doors. Today, that’s what we’re trying to get a handle on — a series of behind closed door meeting involving various key senators and (we’re still trying to confirm this latter point) White House officials to hammer out strategy for getting from this point to an eventual bill.
Also of interest, we’re getting close to the small number of high-profile races at the beginning of the next month. The big races, of course, are the NJ and VA governor’s races. But there are also new signs that the Crist-Rubio primary in Florida may turn out to be a real race. We’ll be taking stock of each of these races today and also looking at the campaigning President Obama is going to be doing in these key contests.
Send us your comments and pointers.