Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) muses about the mysteries of life and love, again, aloud in public, for our edification:
Everybody is assigned their own secret-agent mission in life. At times the tricky part, the hard part, is finding out what that secret-agent mission is. Some of us do it early, some of us do it later in life.
I’m not even sure what that means, but it’s consistent with the limply religious and pseudo-New Agey adages he’s in the habit of mistaking for wisdom. His last book deal fell through, but there’s got to be a market — in the humor category maybe? — for the Gov. Mark Sanford Book of Koans.
Video: Bob Reich makes the case for the public option in 150 seconds.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) says Obama better show some humility when he comes up to Capitol Hill tomorrow night.
Last week we were trying to get details about the 2002 incident in which NJ Gov. candidate Chris Christie was driving the wrong way on a one-way street and had a collision with a motorcyclist but managed to avoid getting a ticket after telling the police officer that he was the state’s US Attorney. After the accident was revealed last week Christie then told reporters that he hadn’t been sued over the accident, only to have reporters from NJN discover that he had in fact been sued.
Now Christie is explaining that while he was sued he was never personally served with the lawsuit. And the victim’s lawyer, Stanley Marcus, says that he never spoke directly with Christie.
But here’s what jumped out at me in the latest report from NJN’s Zachary Fink. The officer didn’t stop with not ticketing Christie, notwithstanding the fact that the accident apparently occurred as the direct result of Christie’s not following the traffic laws. He went one better. He then proceeded to drive Christie from the scene of the accident to Christie’s attorney’s office in Cranford, NJ.
I’ve heard of the cops giving you your one call — but your one drive?
We’ll dig in on this more tomorrow.
Slideshow: Sotomayor takes her seat on Supreme Court after today’s investiture ceremony.
McClatchy’s Jonathan Landay survived a deadly ambush Tuesday of U.S. advisers and Afghan troops near the border with Pakistan. His report.
Opposition to health care reform has re-energized the Christian Right. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Tweet from Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA): “This U.S. Senator is going to tell him (the President) emphatically that we need the public option.”
Open mics can be a big problem … especially if you’re a married family values politician telling a pal about the kinky sex you’re having with the two different women you’re cheating on your wife with.