Editors’ Blog - 2012
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01.25.12 | 5:08 pm
Soylent Green Is People!

Meet the Oklahoma legislator who wants to make sure you’re not unwittingly eating “aborted human fetuses.”

01.25.12 | 6:44 pm
Classy

Gov. Brewer (R-AZ) walks up to President on tarmac, picks a fight.

01.26.12 | 3:56 am
Topsy Turvy

The last thirty days in Florida after the jump … Read More

01.26.12 | 4:47 am
Arab Spring One Year Later

Images from yesterday’s anniversary in Egypt.

01.26.12 | 6:12 am
The Other Shoe Drops

Former aides of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) charged criminally for campaigning while on state time back when Walker was the county executive in Milwaukee.

01.26.12 | 7:21 am
Erratic, Reckless, Grandiose

As I’ve told people a few times: wake me up when the Romney campaign schedules a press call with a psychiatrist. Then I’ll know things are getting serious. This anti-Newt mailer sent out by the Romney campaign isn’t quite that. But it’s close.

01.26.12 | 7:59 am
Was Brewer an Ambush?

Did Gov. Brewer set the President up? I’m not sure. But I do think she wanted to get in his face. TPM Reader JS has another take.

Consider the possibility that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s airport spat with President Obama was anything but ad hoc and instead a cunningly orchestrated – and stunningly effective – tactic to neutralize the President’s message of the day.

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01.26.12 | 8:29 am
The Number That Scares Team Mitt

There’s one big fact about the Obama presidency: the US economy has sucked all through it. Who you blame for that is the key to the American political debate. But the reality of the suck is the baseline. The President’s approval on the economy has trended down over the course of the last three years. Read More

01.26.12 | 10:22 am
What Are The Other 9?

Regarding Bob Dole’s broadside against Newt Gingrich, the Gingrich camp’s top spox tells TPM at an event in Florida just now: “It’s got to be on the top 10 list of the weirdest things he’s ever written.”

01.26.12 | 12:31 pm
Awwwkward

A local GOP official who witnessed the exchange between Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and President Obama on the tarmac yesterday gives TPM his different account of the “awkward moment.”