Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) fires staffer who wrote “All F-ggots Must Die” comment on Joe.My.God blog; calls blogger personally to apologize.
Meg Whitman has denied for two days that she and her husband ever received the Social Security Administration letter which suggests she knew that her maid was in the US illegally.
Now she’s admitting that … well, maybe they did get it. And yeah the handwriting on the letter is probably her husband’s.
Talking to Keith Olbermann this evening about our Republican gubernatorial candidate here in the Empire State threatening to rub out one of the veteran state capital reporters. That’s just fun material to talk about. Video after the jump … Read More
NRSC chair John Cornyn gives TPM his assessment of the Delaware Senate race:
It’s no secret that I believed Mike Castle would have won that race handily We will be supporting Christine O’Donnell as appropriate if that race is competitive. Right now it looks like it is not as competitive as other places around the country.
More here.
Via MSNBC: “U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge or permission more than 60 years ago.”
This ghastly project was recently discovered by a professor of women’s studies at Wellesley College in the course of her research on the Tuskegee experiment.
Hillary Clinton and Kathleen Sebelius will offer public apologies today for the role of the U.S. Public Health Service in the Guatemala project.
More here.
Jon Stewart: Sen. Tom Coburn is an “International ******* of Mystery.” Watch.
Everybody’s waiting to hear what Bill Maher comes up with tonight from the Christine O’Donnell video archives. And I just chatted with a well-placed source who gave me some insights on what’s coming down the pike tonight. And let’s just say it sounds like there were a few other spiritual detours on the path from witchcraft to Christianity. Definitely tune in.
Evan McMorris-Santoro had a nice long chat on the phone last night with Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) about his reelection prospects and makes a good point in this post: While defeating Grayson is a top GOP priority, Republicans would lose a fund-raising gold mine.