TPM is hiring seven new members of its editorial staff — positions in DC and NY. Here’s my post from this morning. Here’s the list of jobs and job descriptions, instructions for applying, etc.
U.S. combat troops are “officially” out of Iraqi urban areas, ceding control to the Iraqis. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has succeeded in crippling the FEC by ensuring the appointment of a bloc of anti-enforcement Republican commissioners who simply refuse to enforce campaign finance laws. His efforts have been mostly flying under the radar, but TPMmuckraker takes a close look at what’s been happening and the consequences.
The hostess who was thrown to the ground and arrested at her home when the San Diego Sheriff’s Department responded to a noise complaint about a Democratic fundraising event has released a statement.
Jon Stewart has some fun with Mark Sanford’s King David-invoking refusal to resign.
Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism: “Fully 93% of cable coverage studied on the Thursday and Friday following his death was about the King of Pop.”
Oklahoma pol trying to pass resolution blaming “libertines and godless people” like Obama for the financial crisis.
Tearful apologies lose their oomph when it turns out the confession was less than complete.
Late Update: One of the liaisons included “what was to be a farewell meeting in New York chaperoned by a spiritual adviser soon after his wife found out about the affair.” What does that kind of meeting look like exactly?
Later Update: Dude, please just stop digging:
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he “crossed lines” with a handful of women other than his mistress — but never had sex with them.
The governor says he “never crossed the ultimate line” with anyone but Maria Belen Chapur, the Argentine at the center of a scandal that has derailed Sanford’s once-promising political career.
During an emotional interview at his Statehouse office with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Sanford said Chapur is his soul mate but he’s trying to fall back in love with his wife.
Digging Ever Deeper Update: Just STOP!!!
“This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story,” Sanford said. “A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day.”
As long as your donors are getting cuffed and pepper-sprayed, you might as well try to leverage the publicity for some campaign cash.