We’ve been trying to get members of Congress on the record on whether they support Rep. Ryan’s plan to privatize Social Security and phase out Medicare. And while it’s pretty clear a lot of them like Ryan’s budget plan, it’s awfully difficult getting many Republicans to say one way or another whether they support it. But you can’t say that about Angela McGlowan, Republican candidate in Mississippi’s 1st congressional district.
She’s running to “fulfill President Bush’s vision for Social Security.”
I wonder if that’s going to catch on.
The President holds a late afternoon meeting with senators from both parties to discuss energy policy. That and the day’s other news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
New York has become political scandal central. A look at the state’s remarkable recent run:
On Good Morning America today, Gibbs took apart former Rep. Eric Massa’s claims that Democrats pushed him out over health care reform. It’s good stuff:
George, let’s go through what we’ve heard from Congressman Massa. On Wednesday, he was having a recurrence of cancer. On Thursday he was guilty of using salty language. On Friday we learned he’s before the ethics committee to be investigated on charges of sexual harassment.
Video here.
Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) and former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt explain why retooling our carbon-based energy sector for clean growth can spur the kind of investment and job growth that we saw in the telecom industry after the market opening of the early 1990s.
The primary is still a decent way off (August) and Charlie Crist is still not showing any signs of giving up the fight. But at least as of this moment, I’m not sure I can recall a more precipitous collapse for a major political figure (when no apparent scandal or triggering event is involved) than we’ve seen with Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. The latest poll out this morning has the upstart challenger, Marco Rubio, beating Crist by an eye-popping 60%-28% margin. And that’s not far our from our current composite TPM Poll Average which stands at 54.9% to 30%. Read More
Last month, after NY state Senator Hiram Monserrate (D) was convicted for assaulting his girlfriend (allegedly slashing her with a broken bottle), he was expelled from the New York state Senate.
Now he’s running to replace himself on a protecting family values platform, and apparently circulating flyers telling his district’s voters his opponent will “destroy our way of life” by supporting gay rights.
Let me start by backing off a bit from the headline. I know there are a lot of good people in Texas and even a lot of good people with progressive politics down in the Lonestar State. But c’mon, it’s a whole different country.
Anyway, over the last year our Justin Elliott has been reporting on the Texas state school board and its attempts to ban the teaching of evolution and generally rewrite high school curricula into something you might hear on the Hannity show. And not just for Texas schools but across the country — because the size of the statewide Texas market makes its decisions highly influential with national textbook makers.
But last week something funny happened. The top right-wing activist on the board, Don McLeroy, got beat in the GOP primary by another candidate, moderate GOPer Thomas Ratliff, who specifically made McLeroy’s school standards craziness an issue in the election.