In our latest TPM Photo Feature, we review Obama’s 22 policy ‘czars’.
Republicans are now suggesting that they need a pro-rata allotment of days before Sonia Sotomayor’s hearings based on the time she’s served on the bench. Which, we did the math, would come out to waiting 610 days before the senate can hold hearings on her confirmation. How does that make sense? Eric Kleefeld got their spokesman on the phone to see if they’re really going to hold out for the full two years.
We’re bringing you live results from the Virginia gubernatorial primary down to the right. So far not looking too good for McAuliffe.
Late Update: With 40% of results in, it’s looking like this was a pretty bad career decision for Terry.
At TPMCafe Book Club this week we’re hosting a discussion of Richard Haass’s new book War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars. Click here to read Haass’s introduction to the discussion.
Charles Krauthammer on what Fox News Channel has acheived: “What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality.”
(ed.note: Special thanks to TPM Reader BJ for the catch.)
The Politico has a report on a proposed plan from the US Chamber of Commerce to spend up to $100 million on opposing President Obama’s various economic, energy and health care reforms. But it’s a bit hard to distinguish the Politico article from a Chamber press release. Here are some nuggets from the article itself …
As the Obama administration encroaches deeper into the private sector and Congress contemplates more regulations, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching a multimillion-dollar campaign to defend the free market system.
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Taken together, the government could soon determine who gets a mortgage, which cars
consumers can buy, the type of treatments patients will get and how many credit cards a person can carry.
The government won’t let me buy a Toyota? Do I have to buy a GM car? Really?
In a further sign of possible GOP slow-walking, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) says that a vote on Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination might not occur until September. That and other political news in today’s TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Mitt Romney has just announced a Mitt Pac essay contest about keeping America free and strong. The winner gets to join the Mitt clan in the ‘family seats’ at a Boston Red Sox game. Runners up can win a a Mitt-autographed ball.