Birther queen Orly Taitz blasts John McCain for attacking her in an anti-birther ad targeting his primary opponent, Rep. J.D. Hayworth.
Gov. Paterson has reportedly decided NOT to run for reelection.
Okay, let’s take stock here.
New York had one governor resign. And now his unelected replacement is now not going to run again and he may resign too.
Not much better to the South where we had Gov. McGreevey resign after a gay affair with a man he put on the state payroll.
I guess that leaves Connecticut. Sure the last governor, John Rowland (R) had to spend some time in the slammer. But, hey, he got out a while ago.
If this isn’t bad enough, the NY-GOV situation even has difficult editorial fall out. You try to do a headline saying Paterson is dropping his reelection bid. But, of course, he was never elected governor. So you can’t say it’s a reelection bid. But then it’s awkward to say he’s not running for governor because that headline doesn’t signal to readers that he’s the incumbent. So, as you can see, it’s a mess.
Sam Marshall makes successful, brave, first visit to dentist. Reportedly earns Incredible Hulk sticker.
Sen. Bunning (R-KY) uses filibuster rules to block unemployment benefits for over a million, complains he had to miss a basketball game to do it.
Jon Stewart, on the health care summit: “That looks like the most boring seder I’ve ever seen.” Watch.
The Bush administration did about as good a job keeping track of its emails as it did finding Osama bin Laden. Today the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the OPR report on the torture memos, and one interesting question is why were John Yoo’s emails missing.
Did you know that reconciliation has never been used with a piece of legislation that starts with an H ?
Along these lines, MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell did a refreshingly good fact check of the ‘it’s never been done before’ nonsense coming from Republicans on reconciliation. See it after the jump … Read More
More evidence of where the White House is going.