Russia’s Martian moon mission is in serious trouble. The probe was launched Tuesday but is now stuck in low-Earth orbit.
The concept of a hi-def Tea Party is pretty humorous on its face, but now that the ambitious plans for a Tea Party HD cable channel have dissolved into a legal dispute among investors, it’s like please pass the popcorn.
It’s been the insiders’ conventional wisdom for a few weeks now that with Herman Cain’s slow motion collapse underway, there was no one else left to take their turn on the stage in the coveted role of “Non-Mitt” than Newt Gingrich. There was already some evidence of it in the poll internals. And now we’ve got the first new poll that shows the glorious moment is coming. The new poll out of from CBS shows Herman Cain as a weak frontrunner at 18% support nationwide followed by Mitt and Newt, each at 15% support.
Myself I’m looking forward to a thick crop of ‘Newt’s moment’, ‘Did we misjudge Newt’ pieces from the standard pubs. It’s not all a bed of roses for Newt: he currently has a net national disapproval rating of -25%. But, hey, that’s down from about -30% only a couple months ago.
TPM Reader GV:
It was nice to see you note the 236th birthday of the U.S. Marines.
I am sure you will also be noting, on June 14, the 237th birthday of
the U.S. Army, born 14 Jun 1775.
Even Yelp’s iPhone app is giving Rick Perry a hard time for his debate freeze. Take a look.
Another Amish hair-cutting attack, this time an elderly man was ambushed by his own son, daughter-in-law and their children.
TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro sends in his latest dispatch from the campaign trail, with Mitt Romney in South Carolina.