Editors’ Blog - 2009
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08.17.09 | 7:43 am
Direct Connect

Bachmann: I’ll run for president … if called by God.

08.17.09 | 8:32 am
Excellent News!

Man at pro-reform health care rally outside Obama event in Phoenix seen carrying assault rifle and pistol. Police watching closely.

08.17.09 | 8:55 am
High Noon

Robert Reich on the Public Plan’s “Last Stand”

08.17.09 | 9:03 am
Some Things Never Change

I remember when Dems started bringing guns to all those Social Security phase-out events back in ’05. Heady Days.

08.17.09 | 10:25 am
The Rest of the Story

Tom DeLay’s long, dark history with Dancing with the Stars.

08.17.09 | 11:06 am
More (Guns) The Merrier!

We’re still trying to piece this together. But according to CNN’s Ed Henry, who was there in person, there was not one but TWO men outside the Obama event in Phoenix today with AR-15 assault rifles. It’s like a fad.

One man, whose presence we noted earlier, was an African-American man who didn’t seem to make completely clear what his political position was. But the second, who we haven’t seen any pictures of, was apparently holding his assault rifle while chanting against socialism and denouncing Obama’s policies.

08.17.09 | 12:19 pm
Birther / Deather Convergence?

A closer look at two recent polls suggests that the people who believe that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and those who believe the health bill includes ‘death panels’ are in fact the same people. About a quarter of the GOP in each case.

08.17.09 | 12:24 pm
Klein on the Crazy

Joe Klein speaks out on the crazy, worries about all the guns and proposes ‘right to sanity.’

08.17.09 | 12:27 pm
And Then There Were Three

We’ve now got a local press report confirming that there were three people outside the Obama event today in Phoenix with guns of one sort of another.

08.17.09 | 12:58 pm
The Day in 100 Seconds: Dead On Arrival?

Full-size video at TPMtv.com.