Demonizing Sonia Sotomayor is not the fund-raising draw that conservatives had hoped for. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Escaping the shadow of Mac, PC was the headliner at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner Saturday night. Watch.
Krugman, on health care reform: Beware the centrist Dems in the Senate.
As historic events continue to unfold in Iran, many Republicans back at home are taking the opportunity to criticize President Obama’s response as “timid” and “passive.” Do the charges hold water? We break it down in today’s Sunday Show Roundup …
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GOP senate candidate says the Iran situation shows how lucky we are to have the 2nd Amendment.
Bill Keller, on the daring escape of his reporter David Rohde and the decision not to publish news of Rohde’s kidnapping by the Taliban. Watch.
This was sort of buried in that NYT poll over the weekend. But according to their poll, the public overwhelmingly (almost 3/4 of the public) supports a so-called “public option” as part of health care reform.
It’s a telling datapoint since congressional support seems to be decreasing.
Images of your media elite at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner Saturday.
It’s been a pretty rough week for Sen. John Ensign (R-NV). He confessed to an affair. And there’s a growing body of evidence of jobs procured to keep people silent. On the bright side, he’s still more popular in Nevada than Sen. Reid (D-NV).