It seems pretty clear now that American Police Force is little more than “Captain” Michael Hilton’s shell game. (We found out recently that those Mercedes SUVs they blared into town with — the only real sign they had any money behind them — were signed for by another guy Hilton had apparently taken for a ride.) But now at least one of Hilton’s “investors” is saying he and his fellow investors want to run the jail without Hilton, whose criminal/fraudster past now makes him an unwelcome partner. They just need to figure out how to find those prisoners Hilton told them were going to make the whole thing a profitable venture.
A reader chimes in on the opt-out plan …
It’s a game changer. The proposal is consonant with Obama’s own approach to reform – what Cass Sunstein labeled ‘visionary minimalism’ – in its incremental, consensual approach that nevertheless possesses transformative potential. Instead of coercing adoption by imposing a mandate on the states, it invites their participation and preserves their choice.
There’s one key change that I’d like to see, to accentuate these features and raise its chances of passage.
In an interview with TPMDC, U.S. Senate hopeful Marco Rubio, who’s seeking the Republican nomination against Gov. Charlie Crist in Florida, charges the national GOP with “shrillness,” which he blames on intellectual “laziness.”
“When I was sworn into the Marine Corps, I was sworn to uphold the Constitution against every enemy, foreign and domestic. We’ve got a lot of domestic enemies of the Constitution and one of those sits in the speaker’s chair of the United States Congress, Nancy Pelosi.” — Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) at a townhall last week.
The new Democracy Corps poll out today has Jon Corzine up over Chris Christie by three points.
A few key points to note. This is a Dem poll, though a highly respected one. And earlier Democracy Corps polls of this race have shown a narrower margin for Christie than others.
But with all that said, this adds yet more confirmation of the trend, which has Corzine drawing even or perhaps even pulling a tiny margin ahead of Christie. The poll also suggests that Corzine’s ads hitting Christie on insurance coverage of mammograms may be having a big effect.
Damn Close Update 3:00PM: Another poll has just come out, this one from SurveyUSA. And it has Christie up by 3 points. Beside the topline number, a key take away is that this poll shows a sharp gender gap, which supports the belief that Corzine’s attacks on Christie on the mammogram issue has had some effect.
Gibbs non-committal on the new public option opt-out compromise being pushed by Sen. Schumer and others today on the hill.
Nancy Pelosi today addressed the NRCC’s call for her to be “put in her place.”
We all know that key anti-tax Tea Party movement leader Jenny Beth Martin is no fan of federal taxes. But it makes a lot more sense when you learn she owes the IRS half a million dollars.
With the recent David Letterman quasi-scandal, it seems the entertainment industry is trying to get in on the whole sex extortion scandal craze. But this is pretty weak too. The real masters of the full sex extortion scandal meltdown are all in the political world. In today’s TPM Photo Feature we look at some recent high points of the genre in the political world.
Dems on the right and left seem to be warming to the “opt-out” public option compromise.