Today’s episode: The political impact of Occupy Wall Street. Watch.
A smiling and much improved looking Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) today at her husband’s Navy retirement ceremony.
We’ll have a fuller explanation of this shortly. But something kind of big just happened in the Senate. Reid and McConnell have been jousting all week as Reid tries to find a way to bring some form of President Obama’s jobs bill to the floor and McConnell struggles to prevent that and embarrass the Dems. They were going back and forth tonight on arcane procedure. McConnell appeared to find a way to outwit Reid with another 60 vote filibuster when Reid essentially said enough and pulled the plug on McConnell’s attempt to pull yet another filibuster. This provoked a stammering “but, but, but … ” from the Republican side of the aisle. And that’s where we are.
Here is Brian Beutler’s report on what happened tonight — and what it could portend.
One of the two big annual conservative confabs gets into high gear today in Washington. But unlike last year, the official schedule of the Values Voter Summit 2011 makes no mention of the tea party.
Our reporters are on the scene, and we’ll bring you the news from VVS throughout the day on TPM Livewire and TPM2012.
Here’s the nickel version of what went down last night in the Senate.
Set aside which bill was involved and what stage of the proceedings this all happened in. That’s basically irrelevant.
What Senate Democrats did is that they voted to overrule the Senate parliamentarian.
By rule and by custom, both parties abide by the decisions of the parliamentarian. But the rule that establishes that basic guideline was originally approved by a simply majority vote, so it can be changed by a simply majority vote. That’s what Senate Democrats last night. Read More
This beautiful photo of Leymah Gbowee, one of the three women to share today’s Nobel Peace Prize, embodies the fierce urgency of now, doesn’t it?
Cantor: “If you read the newspapers today, I for one am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country.”
Senate GOP calls Harry Reid’s procedural maneuver last night “tyranny.”