Editors’ Blog - 2010
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10.05.10 | 5:30 am
‘Radical’ Anti-Puppy Mill Agenda

Joe the Plumber and Missouri tea partiers join forces to oppose “radical” anti-puppy mill legislation.

10.05.10 | 6:22 am
Swing Low Sweet Chariot

Colbert: “The definition of bigotry is picking on Rick Sanchez. Watch.

10.05.10 | 6:35 am
Disorder In The Court

It’s not very often that you have a stripper recording her conversations with a federal district judge (on senior status) and turning them over to the FBI. Then again, it’s not every day (I don’t think) that a federal judge is allegedly boinking a stripper and buying her coke, weed and Roxicodone. Hello, Atlanta!

10.05.10 | 6:47 am
Orange Is As Orange Does

John Boehner, talking about his relationship with President Obama: “I come in and he’ll say, ‘Boehner you are almost as dark as me.'”

10.05.10 | 9:36 am
How About A Cooling-Off Period?

New York GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino: Andrew Cuomo “should be in jail.”

10.05.10 | 11:23 am
What To Make Of These So-Called ‘Lake Pirates’?

The phrase “lake pirates” was entirely new to me before that incident last week on Falcon Lake, which straddles the Texas-Mexico border. “Lake pirates” are who the local sheriff blames for allegedly chasing and shooting at a married couple on jet skis on the Mexican side of the lake. The husband was reported by his wife, who escaped, to have have been shot in the head. The husband and his jet ski have not been found. Mexican authorities, perhaps for their own reasons, are raising questions about the alleged incident. Today, the wife and her husband’s family made the rounds on the TV news shows. Eric Lach takes a closer look at the case.

10.05.10 | 12:29 pm
I Put On Spell On You!

Rachel Maddow and crew get booted from Christine O’Donnell’s campaign headquarters.

10.05.10 | 1:15 pm
Daschle’s Painful Correction

Back home in South Dakota, the word they use for this is “castration.”

10.05.10 | 5:29 pm
Two Really Lucky Guys

Just a quick observation.

The best thing ever to happen to Pat Toomey and Marco Rubio (especially Toomey) is the crop of completely whacky Tea Party nominees in maybe a half dozen Senate races across the country. Back under the old normal, Pat Toomey was a pretty out there guy. Club for Growth politics, a staunch advocate of phasing out Social Security. He seemed close to unelectable in Pennsylvania. But up against Angle, Miller, O’Donnell, he’s like Bob Dole.

Yes, this is kind of snark. But I think it’s really true.