Perfect timing. Slipping Connecticut Senate candidate Linda McMahon rolls out new campaign mailer pushing to end the state’s economic woes with lots more offshore drilling.
How much oil is there in Long Island Sound?
Our Brian Beutler gets Republican senators to open up about their belief that yes the bailouts really did work like a charm. Just please don’t tell anyone!
What if the out-of-control wellhead on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico was belching out 14 times as much crude oil as the government and BP have been saying? It may not be just a “what if.”
If we’ve really got our best and brightest working on this problem, can’t we at least get an accurate flow rate of what’s coming out of the pipe. I’m no engineer, but that’s fairly straightforward math, isn’t it? Read More
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has created a new panel to combat “mistruths” about the Arizona immigration bill. The state is also putting up $250,000 for a new marketing campaign which will start by urging more Arizonans to go on vacation in Arizona.
Dahlia Lithwick, on what the Elena Kagan pick says about Obama’s judicial philosophy, or the lack thereof.
TPM Reader TS chimes in on Specter/Sestak …
I am a Democrat living in Pennsylvania and wanted to chime in on the Sestak/Specter primary.
Words cannot describe how brutal that “I changed parties which will enable me to be… reelected” ad that Sestak is running. It is just devastating. The way Specter pronounces “reelected” makes him sound pompous in the extreme.
Jon Stewart takes a look at how the big banks made a boatload of money in the first quarter: take the federal government’s bailout money and loan it back to the government — and charge interest. Watch.
Video of the Obama line from last night that I mentioned below: “After they drove the car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want the keys back. No. You can’t drive. We don’t want to have to go back into the ditch. We just got the car out.” Watch.
House Republicans use porn amendment to kill science jobs bill.