Yesterday AZ Gov. Jan Brewer (R) vetoed a birther law in Arizona. But if one gets to the desk of Louisiana Gov. Jindal (R) he says he’ll sign it.
After several years of investigating black crackdowns on the civil rights of white people, a newly bipartisan US Commission on Civil Rights gets back to actually investigating civil rights.
The Arab American Institute is set to honor Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) with its annual Najeeby Halaby award.
“It’s a moment to honor our own and Mitch Daniels goes back to the founding of the institute as one of our earliest supporters. We have a community that comes with some unfortunate political baggage in terms of bigots…it’s just nice when folks are proud of their ethnic background and don’t allow that kind of politics of exclusion to get in the way,” said AAI Executive Director Maya Berry. Praising his “truce” on social issues, she added: “I think he’s been the adult in the room.”
In the latest twist in their slapstick public battle over birtherism, Karl Rove now claims that he offered Trump a way out of the birtherism trap — to no avail. Watch it.
Where did all the old-fashioned 800 numbers go?
Roughly a quarter of the 800 numbers in the US and Canada (as opposed to those newfangled 888 and 877 numbers) have been grabbed up by a Philadelphia company called PrimeTel Communications which appears to be a front for a phone sex business.
Just between you and me, you simply must see this video of Donald Trump today getting asked about whether he believes there’s a right to privacy in the US constitution. We’ve got it up in the feature right now. And it was bouncing around the cable nets all day. But no lead in can do it justice. By any measure, it’s right up with “In what respect, Charlie?” as one of those video moments for the ages where a pop political culture supercollider rams schadenfreude into empathy at such a velocity that it explodes in hilarity and disbelief.
MSNBC’s Savannah Guthrie asks Trump whether there’s a right to privacy in the constitution. And Trump sort of mulls it over for a second and replies, “I guess there is. I guess there is.” But it’s with a sort of ‘sure, why not?’ air and it’s pretty clear that Trump thinks she’s asking him about the general human right not to be disturbed when you’re on the can. Then Guthrie follows up by asking how this squares with his newfound opposition to abortion. To which Trump replies, basically what do the two things have to do with each other?
And it pretty much goes down hill from there. Don’t let me spoil any more. Just go watch.
We’re Abolishing Medicare
Get Used to It!
Biden: GOP now “totally out of the closet” with plan to abolish Medicare.
It looks like Montana Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT) may be one of the weak links in the House Republican caucus’s plan to phase out Medicare and replace it with vouchers for seniors to buy private insurance. West Virginia’s Dave McKinley is a question mark too. But Rehberg shouldn’t surprise us. He was one of the weak links and early jumpers when President Bush tried to phase out Social Security in 2005 too.
Now he’s saying that “there are still too many unanswered questions with regard to Medicare reform, and I simply won’t support any plan until I know for a fact that Montana’s seniors will be protected.” Read More
Right-wingers raise the alarm about “homosexual indoctrination” in public schools.