Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) jokes that some of his Democratic colleagues “almost got lynched” by teabag mobs at their townhall meetings.
Sonia Sotomayor will be overwhelming confirmed as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice (with whatever nod is owed Benjamin Cardozo) when the Senate votes this afternoon. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
John Edwards’ former mistress appeared this morning before a federal grand jury in North Carolina 
that’s investigating his presidential campaign’s payments to her.
Or to put a finer point on it, Rielle Hunter arrived at a federal courthouse in Raleigh, NC, where she is presumed to be testifying before the grand jury that Edwards has acknowledged is investigating his campaign. What a mess.
Video of Hunter arriving here.
Across the street from our office, some people have just taped a big paper sign on their balcony that reads “@cliffbot: twitter is down”
FreedomWorks, the main group behind the townhall teabag mob scenes, has now released a new “August Recess Action Kit“.
As Politico puts it, lobbyists were just getting back on their feet after the initial Obama whirlwind and “regaining [their] natural place in the business of Washington” when those darned forged astroturfing letters went and messed everything up again.
Even World Net Daily can’t get onboard with that fake Kenyan birth certificate (citing its “investigative operatives in Africa”).
First, Birther Queen Bee Orly Taitz released a purported Kenyan birth certificate for Barack Obama. Then reporters discovered that the Obama ‘birth certificate’ was actually a forgery based on the birth certificate of an Australian man, David Bomford, who was unfortunate enough to have uploaded his own birth certificate onto a family genealogy website during the summer of 2009 America birther mania.
Now Taitz is accusing him of having forged his own actual birth certificate in order to discredit the phony Obama birth certificate that was in turn based on his real birth certificate.
Hard to know what the guy did to deserve this. Next thing you know Taitz’s birther mob will be storming Bomford’s next townhall.