Alabama math teacher uses potential assassination of President Obama as an example to explain geometry problem.
Secret Service pays him a visit.
Hopefully for Blanche Lincoln’s sake, her campaign is more on top of GOTV than she is. Lincoln went to vote this morning in Arkansas but was turned away since she’d already requested an absentee ballot.
Arlen Specter goes mano a mano with Andrea Mitchell over whether he’s as “vigorous” as Joe Sestak. “When you talk about Sestak being more vigorous, you must be smoking dutch cleanser.”
Is that what they smoked in the olden days?
We’ve been trying to get a handle on what forced Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) to confess his affair with a staffer and resign. Now we’re hearing that the two seemed to be in the habit of having their trysts in Indiana state parks, which for what it’s worth is maybe a bit groovier than I’d expect from this guy. But that’s another story. In any case, it seems like one of those trysts gone wrong — or maybe just too right — led to the congressman’s downfall.
There’s still another detail of this sordid tale we’re trying to figure out. Souder has implied, albeit cryptically, that he may have faced either some ethics committee or even legal jeopardy stemming from the affair.
As you’d expect, we’ll be bringing you live election results tonight from Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Arkansas and Oregon beginning at 6 PM when the first results come in from eastern Kentucky.
It looks like Senate Republicans are throwing a well-placed monkey wrench in the financial reform works. Progressive senators have been wrangling with the Democratic leadership to at least get votes on their tough-on-Wall-Street amendments, and it appeared that some sort of accommodation/resolution was close. But now anonymous Republican senators are blocking consideration of several amendments. That’s set off senators like Byron Dorgan (D-ND), who has threatened to filibuster the whole bill if his amendment doesn’t get a vote. Dorgan is on the floor now objecting to all amendments.
The backdrop to all this is that the politics of Wall Street reform have become so anti-Wall Street that even the Senate Democratic leadership is a little nervous that some of the toughest amendments stand a chance of passing because no one wants to be on the wrong side of these votes this close to an election.
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) is now saying that this may prevent Democrats from getting the 60 votes they need to move the bill forward.
Our Brian Beutler is up on the Hill following the latest on the Financial Reform voting. McCaskill just said this …
“So we were going along very well, we were smooth sailing, we were having an open amendment process, Democrats were voting for some Republican amendments, and a few Republicans were voting for Democratic amendments. And it appears that we somehow in the last hour fell off a cliff. I hope I’m wrong, but if all of a sudden the other side is saying we’re going to change the game now and now that we’ve gotten all these Republican amendments voted on, we’re not going to let any more of the Democratic substantive amendments come up.”
Mark Williams, chairman of Tea Party Express, unleashes mound of anti-Muslim hate speech. Calls Islamic deity “monkey-god” and all Muslims “the animals of allah.”