The AP reports that Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons (R) is out of the state. His interim press secretary Gail Powell won’t say where he is. And the Lt. Governor has been notified he’s now in charge of running the state.
Indeed, Gibbons has a long history of hiking the metaphorical Appalachian Trail. But it would seem this case of the disappearing governor will have a more prosaic conclusion. Gibbons office is saying that the Pentagon wants a blackout on the governor’s whereabouts, strongly suggesting he’s in Iraq or Afghanistan visiting US troops in the field.
You remember the C Street Group, the combo Bible fellowship and group home for members of Congress up on Capitol Hill. But it’s been occurring to us that the C Street Group, which is an emanation of a shadowy religious outfit called “the Family”, might not be a religious fellowship at all so much as a covert 12 Step Group from Republican Hound Dogs, womanizers and sex addicts trying to get clean during their tenure in the hallowed halls of Congress.
Less than a month ago, we had C Streeter John Ensign take a dive. Then just a week or so later it was South Carolina Mark Sanford, himself a C Streeter from his days in Congress. And in his tell-all (but not quite all) press conference just after his return from Argentina he said that he’d been working with the C Street Group to deal with his on-going affair, which I guess didn’t help that much.
And today we have news of yet another C Streeter falling off the fidelity wagon. Read More
Blasts at two Western hotels in Jakarta Friday morning killed 9 and injured dozens.
Three Dems joined all the Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee to vote against the health care reform bill: Reps. Ron Kind (D-WI), Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) and John Tanner (D-TN). It made it through committee anyway early this morning.
Watch President Obama’s speech yesterday to the NAACP. (Text here.)
The commission created to investigate the structural causes of the financial collapse may be designed to fail — but even if a few well-intentioned commissioners and staff try to make a real go of it, they’ll have former Rep. Bill Thomas (R-CA), the commission’s co-chair and a legendary partisan knife-fighter, standing in their way.