Sen. Cornyn says Reid’s talking about racism is actually much worse than Sen. Lott’s endorsing racism.
If Obama wants to sign a health care reform bill before next month’s State of the Union address, this is the week a lot of compromises have to be reached among Democrats on the Hill.
I was just watching DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton on Fox explaining why Sen. Reid should stay right where he is notwithstanding longtime civil rights advocate John Cornyn saying he should go.
Norton explained that there’s a rather elemental difference between describing American racial attitudes in archaic and embarrassing language and endorsing racism. But she also made the subsidiary point. People are going to interpret Reid’s comments in the context of a strong record on civil rights and anti-discrimination — just as they interpreted Lott’s comments in terms of a long record of support for neo-segregationist politics and white supremacist groups in his home state.
Sarah Palin signs on as a paid contributor with Fox News.
TPM favorite Frank Gaffney recently claimed that the top anti-Jihadists in the US counter-terrorism community are being purged because they’re too anti-Shariah and not PC enough. But one of the two purgees Gaffney mentions actually seems to have gotten canned for having sex with a government witness in a major congressional corruption investigation.
In other words, the FBI Agent, John Guandolo, screwed the pooch and the witness at the same time.
Good quote from my old friend Joan Walsh …
One guy is talking, perhaps inelegantly, about why he’s whole-heartedly supporting our first black president; the other is wishing the country had elected a racist. That’s exactly the same thing!
The latest call to arms from Tea Party Nation: We’re under attack from liberals uploading porn to our website?
In honor of her officially signing on with Fox, we present Sarah Palin’s greatest Fox News moments. Watch.
NBC’s Washington Bureau Chief Mark Whitaker had what I can only call a refreshingly sane and straightforward take today on the difference between the Reid and Lott stories. Video after the jump. Read More