Social conservative group unmasks (Obama-backed) plot to subvert the minds of America’s youth with new squad of Muslim comic book superheroes.
Pat Boone and his seniors astroturf group 60 Plus launch “Beverly Hills Tea Party.”
Top Senate conservative Jim DeMint announces plan to shut down all senate business with a standing filibuster against all legislation until after the election and possibly through January.
Just a few moments ago on Capitol Hill Majority Leader Steny Hoyer got hit with a barrage of questions on a tax cut vote, mainly on whether he (who said it’s almost definitely not happening) or Rep. Van Hollen (who said it may well still happen) were right in what they said on the Sunday shows.
Hoyer told the scrum they were both right — it could happen, no final decision, but he stands by what he said on Fox (that he doesn’t think it will).
Check out the highlights from President Obama’s Rolling Stone interview.
The former President was taken off a plane in Cleveland and brought to a local hospital for an as yet undisclosed condition. He was arriving in Cleveland for a book signing.
Carter became airsick, a spokesperson at the Carter Center in Atlanta tells CBS News.
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Hoyer on House tax cut vote decision: “If we thought we could get it through the Senate absolutely we would act. And we may well act anyhow.”
On the surface it seems like a terrible missed opportunity. On the other hand, a quick vote now might catch the GOP off guard now, having softened them up with a lulling few weeks of indecision and self-doubt.
From Obama’s interview with Jann Wenner:
It is inexcusable for any Democrat or progressive right now to stand on the sidelines in this midterm election. There may be complaints about us not having gotten certain things done, not fast enough, making certain legislative compromises. But right now, we’ve got a choice between a Republican Party that has moved to the right of George Bush and is looking to lock in the same policies that got us into these disasters in the first place, versus an administration that, with some admitted warts, has been the most successful administration in a generation in moving progressive agendas forward.
The idea that we’ve got a lack of enthusiasm in the Democratic base, that people are sitting on their hands complaining, is just irresponsible…It has been hard, and we’ve got some lumps to show for it. But if people now want to take their ball and go home, that tells me folks weren’t serious in the first place.
This is so rich it might deserve a modern-day Inherit The Wind to really do it justice: Neocon rabble-rouser Frank Gaffney testified as an expert witness yesterday in the lawsuit locals have filed to try to stop the mosque in Murfreesboro, TN, from constructing a new building. Gaffney testified about the threat the local Muslims pose to the community and the larger threat of Sharia law being imposed on America — even though Gaffney admitted: “I don’t hold myself out as an expert on Sharia Law. But I have talked a lot about that as a threat.”