Obama hits the Midwest campaign trail today and tomorrow with stops in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Democrats in Congress are asking the postmaster general to investigate the RNC’s latest phony census mailer which we first reported on yesterday.
House Ethics Committee: We did a thorough investigation, honest!
How did the emerging swing state of the last decade turn into ground zero of the Crazy ™?
Meet the GOP direct mail consultant behind that phony census mailer that has gotten the RNC in hot water with Congress. His name is Walter Lukens, and he says his company has sent out some 100 million of the mailers in the past decade — and isn’t planning to stop now.
Jon Stewart: “Arizona is the meth lab of democracy.” Watch.
I hadn’t realized that Colbert had gotten in on the livestock for health care snark. And he’s not satisfied with just chickens! See the video.
A classic moment in the Goldman Sachs hearing this morning when Senate government affairs subcommittee chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) demanded a yes or no answer to this question: “Should Goldman Sachs be trying to sell a shitty deal?” Watch.
Even Republican congressmen are now denouncing the RNC’s fake census mailer that we first reported yesterday.