Chris Hayes tweets that Spitzer, Vitter et al. should record “It Gets Better” vid for Anthony Weiner.
Thinking who else: Livingston, Gingrich, Ensign, Foley, Lee
#bandofbrothers
As Obama mulls Afghan drawdown, war weariness grows on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) has scheduled a Wednesday anti-Mitt Romney rally in his district attacking what he calls the “Romney-Obama ticket.”
In a late breaking development, there will now be recall elections of three Democratic state senators in Wisconsin.
Ethics Watchdog Melanie Sloan on the Weiner Roast …
Sloan explained that the mounting pressure on Weiner may stem in part from the early precedent set by House Speaker John Boehner when, at the first sign of sexual misconduct, he urged Reps. Mark Souder (R, Ind.) and Chris Lee (R, N.Y.) to resign, even though their behavior didn’t appear to involve any abuse of their office.
“A lot of people really hate Weiner, too,” she said, referring to Weiner’s colleagues in the House, some of whom are said to have been rankled by his personality and frequent media appearances.
As for Weiner’s bald lies to his family, constituents and the general public in media appearances last week about the lewd photo that appeared on Twitter, Sloan said it was disconcerting and tarnished his credibility but not the worst Washington has seen.
Obama at Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 Firehouse commemorating the death of Osama bin Laden.
Just before he quit, the man whom Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal hand-picked to privatize the state employee health insurance fund was absolutely grilled by state senators trying to find out more about a report prepared for the Jindal administration about the privatization plan that it has so far refused to release.
Wednesday a Senate committee has subpoenaed the report that Jindal is so eager to keep under wraps and demanded it be released within 24 hours. TPM has a public records request in for the report, as well. We’ll keep you posted.
It’s not clear whether the recent bad economic numbers signal an ominous trend or a blip in a generally anemic recovery. But they have focused opinion-makers attention on a signal fact: the US economy, while improved from the near catastrophic state of the winter of 2008-09, remains mired in its deepest and most protracted period of joblessness since the Great Depression. And yet the national political debate has focused on more or less massive government retrenchment — i.e., draining demand and jobs from the economy. By almost any economic standard this is craziness — a national experiment on par with those old stories — half comic, half tragic — of doctors hastening a patient off this mortal coil by debating how many bleeding treatments to administer to their seriously but not fatally ill charge. Read More
Rick Santorum: The idea that mankind contributes to global warming is “just patently absurd.”
Let’s be honest. The last decade or so has been a great ten years for sex scandals. High and low, traditional and web 2.0. Here’s 16 of the very best. And here’s my vote for, the greatest. What’s yours?