Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) says the military coup in Honduras is kind of like the election of Al Franken in Minnesota.
From a knowledgeable source on the Hill …
Now that they have 60, Reid and Durbin need to remind Dem members that when your Leader files cloture, you support him. If you want political cover, vote against final passage. Fine. But opposing cloture means you’re supporting a filibuster of your party’s agenda.
From what I hear, they started delivering that message, if a softer version of it, earlier today.
We were looking back at pre-election funny Al Franken today, since it seems like we’re in for at least a significant period of new boring Al. And I was reminded of this moment of old Funny Al terrorizing my dog Simon. Great days, great days …
At long last Karl Rove faced congressional investigators today in the U.S. attorneys firings and related investigations of the politicization of the Bush-era Justice Department. He was deposed by House Judiciary Committee attorneys for most of the day, committee chairman John Conyers tells Politico.
So far Arlen Specter has been a more reliable Democratic vote than he was Republican vote before his party switch (though it’s admittedly a still small sample). That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Majority Leader Harry Reid is threatening to lower the boom on members of his caucus to vote with the leadership on key procedural matters, i.e., cloture. But conservative Dems like Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu are already balking.
With Karl Rove having finally been deposed, where does Congress’ US attorneys probe go from here?