Because you weren’t bored enough with it yet, the full Senate begins “debating” the Sotomayor nomination today. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Maddow looks at the script the teabaggers are using to shutdown those Democratic health care town hall meetings. Watch.
Some rich mockery of the Milbank and Cillizza online videos for the WaPo. Or as the mockers put it: “Washingtonpost.com — Inadvertently revealing the dark heart of our dying industry two minutes at a time.” (via Americablog).
Democrats in the MN-06 seems to be coalescing around a different challenger to Michele Bachmann (R-MN) than the Dem who almost knocked her off in 2008.
Don’t have an affair with a woman whose husband is a prolific and indiscreet emailer, especially if he’s on your staff. Bad idea.
Former Israeli Prime Minister and current Defense Minister Ehud Barak says he expects the Obama administration to unveil a Middle East peace plan within weeks and that Israel should accept it.
“In the coming weeks, their plan will be formulated and presented to the parties. I believe that Israel must take the lead in accepting the plan,” Reuters quotes Barak as telling the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Knesset.
This raises several interesting questions. Read More
Marc Ambinder’s up with a series of Twitter posts saying that Democrats ignore the rash of disruptive anti-health care reform protests at their peril. But I’m not sure who he’s arguing against.
I take it as a given that it’s very difficult to gin up these kinds of mini-riots if you don’t have at least a very riled up minority of voters who believe deeply in a specific position. I’m also not sure who is arguing that there’s anything wrong with people organizing to get their viewpoint out in a public setting. There’s really no such thing as a purely spontaneous upsurge of protest over any issue. As Dave Weigel points out, the traction Republicans are getting in the governors’ races in Virginia and New Jersey suggests something real is going on right now. (Along these lines, Eric Kleefeld has good posts today on Virginia and New Jersey, showing in each case big Republican advantages in voter enthusiasm and likeliness to turn out to vote.) Read More
In upstate New York today, the guy who organized the local Tea Party protest in Rome, New York ambushed Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and started screaming that Hoyer was a liar. (It’s becoming like a sort of right-wing performance art.)
“You’re lying to me. Just because I don’t have sophisticated language, I can recognize a liar when I see one.”
As an example of screamer Don Jeror’s populism, he was screaming about corporate taxes, which he claimed had been raised even though they haven’t.
I’m listening to John Bolton explain why Bill Clinton going to Pyongyang to seal the deal on this prisoner release is a terrible thing.
I assume we’ve made them more powerful than they were before when they were completely unpowerful and marginal.
I don’t know about you but speaking just in nationalistic terms I’m totally humiliated.