The Golden Dukes are in their 6th Year! Our annual awards to honor the standout performers in scandal, public corruption and where appropriate simple ridiculousness and Teh Crazy.
Ladies and Gentlemen, here are your winners!
Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has spent millions of his own dollars over the years running for political office. He spent more than $20 million on this year’s loss to Ted Cruz in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate alone.
Now, Dewhurst is accusing the man who served as his campaign manager since 2008 of stealing a pretty hefty amount of cash from the campaign for lieutenant governor. So far, campaign aides say at least $600,000 is missing, and they’re still counting. Here’s our report.
Dick Armey on $8 million payout he got after the FreedomWorks coup: I “couldn’t leave with empty pockets.”
According to Dave Wasserman’s definitive and on-going tally of the popular vote, President Obama’s margin in the 2012 presidential election has gone over the 51% threshold. To be precise, 51.06% of the vote compared to 47.21% for Mitt Romney.
Just as interesting to me, Obama is now just about 35,000 votes short of a 5 million vote lead in the popular vote. And the counting continues.
The Sun-Times Lynn Sweet reports that President Obama is personally lobbying home-state lawmakers to pass a marriage equality law in Illinois. Read More
A very cool mini-documentary on the first same-sex marriages which took place last night in Maine.
Watch after the jump … Read More
Obama on Meet the Press: “I am skeptical that the only answer is putting more guns in schools.”
McConnell reaches out to Biden for help as talks again break down.
We’ve seen these budget talks break down so many times now that it’s hard to get too exercised about it, including today, when there’s almost no time left for negotiators to reach even a modest accommodation.
The drama might be more pitched if the consequences of blowing past the tax and sequestration deadlines were more immediate and onerous, but realistically if everything falls apart tonight and tomorrow, it can be put back together again fairly quickly next year.
What we’re witnessing in these waning hours, though, reveals a lot about the current balance of power in Washington, and the way the parties are responding to the outcome of the election. Read More