In case you’re wondering, ground zero of the current round of Sarah Palin supplication is this article by Carl Cannon in AOL’s Politics Daily, the upshot of which is that the true villain of the almost-year-long Sarah Palin train-wreck is the media itself, whose collective liberal bias led them to have it in for Palin from the git-go and strive since then to take her down.
How soon we forget how hard reporters worked at first at grading Palin on a curve and talking around her manifest disqualifications for high office. My only question on reading the piece is whether Cannon actually believes this malarkey or whether he’s like all those other conservative talking heads who talk Palin to the stars on camera and then more or less lavishly concede she’s simply unqualified for high office. Read More
The New York Times reported over the weekend that following the 9/11 attacks then Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to withhold from Congress information about a top-secret intelligence program. Should Congress investigate the matter or let this one slide? We look for answers in today’s Sunday Show Roundup …
Full-size video at TPMtv.com.
As you know, the confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor are getting underway momentarily. And in addition to our regular reporting, video and the rest, we’re going to be bringing you live blogging of the hearings with appellate lawyer Andrew Pincus, who frequently argues cases before the Supreme Court.
See his first post here. Tthe live-blogging page is auto-refreshing. So no need to refresh once you go to the live blog page.
You can also see the new posts on our front page down and to the right, under “Sotomayor Hearings”.
Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) is touting $4.2 million cash-on-hand for a primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA). Specter has $6.7 million cash-on-hand. How much of that he raised as a Republican before his switch and might have to refund to GOP donors is not clear.
Some pretty rancid comments from Sen. Kyl (R-AZ) right now. And is it just me or are the Republicans all coming to their comments with some conservative Hispanic jurist to knock Sotomayor over the head with?
11:23 AM … Also interesting to note that both Sessions and Kyl have essentially accused Sotomayor of being prejudiced against whites — sort of the kinder, gentler version of Newt’s ‘racist’ charge.
Are the Republicans on the committee under the misimpression that this hearing is about Miguel Estrada?
We’re hearing that the planned unveiling of the health care draft bill in the House, originally scheduled for last week but put off until this afternoon, might not actually happen until tomorrow.
Late Update: House Dems will have a health care “event” this afternoon, but the draft bill will not be unveiled there.