Gov. David Paterson (D-NY) is telling the White House to go jump in a lake after the President made it clear that he’d prefer the unpopular Paterson not seek re-election. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
As Susan Page at USA Today notes, one of the more colorful anecdotes from Taylor Branch’s new Bill Clinton bio involves the efforts to corral a drunken Boris Yeltsin during a 1995 visit to Washington — efforts that apparently had mixed success if Yeltsin’s trying to hail a cab on Pennsylvania Avenue in the middle of the night clad only in his underwear is any indication.
Our photographer spent the weekend at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, DC. See the results here (Rep. Michele Bachmann included — and special glam shots of John Boehner, Bill Bennett doing some retro speech gesticulation, the Mittster, Straw Poll winner Mike Huckabee and more.
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Latest person to say they’re filing an ethics complaint against birther lawyer/agitator Orly Taitz before the California bar: her now ex-client.
Sen. Snowe (R) proposes an amendment to the Baucus bill to include a triggered public option.
At the Values Voters Summit over the weekend, Sen. Tom Coburn’s chief of staff opened a new front in the War Against Hormones (WAH) when he explained that if we tell teenage boys that straight porn will make them gay, they’ll never touch the stuff again.
The James Carville-Mary Matalin union has always been a head-scratcher, but yesterday’s joint appearance on CNN was a bit creepy.
What’s the old saying? If all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail?
Birther queen Orly Taitz is now claiming that Obama’s birth certificate may not be the only supposed forgery floating around. In an email to TPMmuckraker, she suggests that the letter her now former client sent to a federal court in Georgia Friday, declaring Taitz is no longer her lawyer in a birther lawsuit, might just be a forgery, too!
US Attorney firing scandal luminary Tim Griffin, the Rove protege who was installed as US Attorney in Arkansas after his predecessor Bud Cummins was fired, has just announced he’s running for Congress.
A couple months ago I told you we were expanding (actually doubling the size of) our reporting staff at TPM. So I wanted to give you a quick update.
Over the summer I asked TPM’s Managing Editor David Kurtz to relocate from Missouri to Washington, DC to head up a new TPM DC office. And our new DC Bureau will open next week.
We also have two new hires to announce. Christina Bellantoni of the Washington Times will be joining us as Senior Reporter-Blogger covering the White House and Obama’s Washington. We’ve also hired Evan McMorris-Santoro, from The Hotline, who will also be reporting for us from DC.
We’ll be announcing more new hires and details shortly.