If Fox & Friends‘ Steve Doocy didn’t exist, Jon Stewart would have to invent him. Watch.
Disgraced former Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), gets Sanford-esque on his affair with his staffer:
“I prayed multiple times a day, sang hymns with emotion and tears, felt each time that it wouldn’t happen again, read the Bible every morning. . . . So how in the world did I have a ‘torrid’ (which is an accurate word) many-year affair? How could I compartmentalize it so much?”
I’ll be curious to see the details of this $20 billion fund BP has agreed to set up. I’ve seen various reports as to its intended purpose, among them: making sure there’s still money for victims even if BP goes belly up (would creditors let that stand?), making the claims process easier for victims, and getting payment to victims faster.
None of those are necessarily mutually exclusive objectives, but they don’t get to the heart of the matter: What’s the standard for paying claims? Read More
Last decade the ‘undisclosed location’ was the preserve of vice presidents. In this decade it’s for rookie Senate candidates who have a habit of saying totally whacked things on TV.
In this new piece, our Christina Bellantoni looks at Operation Lockdown, the GOP effort to keep Sharron Angle and Rand Paul away from the media, with the exception of the occasional pre-screened questions from Fox News.
John Cornyn and Senate Republicans would like every senate contest this year to be about Obama, Health Care Reform and runaway spending. Every time Sharron Angle kicks the national dialog on to abolishing Social Security to preserve our freedom is at best a wasted media day and at worst gives Democrats a poster girl for the GOP embrace of The Crazy ™.
So what’s the story on that couple, one an AWOL Army specialist, who tried to drive on to MacDill Air Force Base with a bunch of weapons and fake military ID? Justin Elliott tells us the latest on what we know.
You may not have heard of Tim Fasano, a third party candidate in the Nevada Senate race who is far, far behind but he’s pulling enough votes, at least in early polls, that he could conceivably affect the outcome. And he now reports getting threatening phone calls from Angle supporters telling him to get out of the race.
Ironically, he’s the candidate of the Independent American Party, the far-right third party Angle herself used to be a member of until going soft and becoming a far-right Republican.
Not long ago Minutemen founder Chris Simcox was considered a possible candidate to run against Sen. John McCain. Now he’s in an ugly divorce with his wife, who he allegedly threatened to shoot, and he’s now headed for the hills, apparently with the bunch of his guns he was ordered to turn over after the wife incident. Now a bounty hunter is on his trail. And the bounty hunter is another Minuteman who Simcox kicked out of the movement over fraud claims. So presumably things will go great when the bounty hunter catches up with Simcox out in the Arizona desert or wherever else he is.
Classic moments in the long and wacky history of South Carolina political scandals:
