Purged House Republicans ask Boehner for explanation for defenestration.
Charlie registers as Dem at White House Christmas party …
From the Tampa Bay Times …
He did so during a Christmas reception at the White House, where President Obama greeted the news with a fist bump for the man who had a higher profile campaigning for Obama’s reelection this year than any Florida Democrat.
After it was revealed that the NRSC secretly funneled $760,000 to Todd Akin in the final days of his losing Missouri senate campaign, Akin’s top advisor tells TPM it was the NRSC’s “incompetent leadership” and trashing of his candidate that played a key roll in Akin’s defeat.
Morsi preparing to reimpose martial law as Egypt protests escalate …
Struggling to subdue continuing street protests, the government of President Mohamed Morsi has approved legislation reimposing martial law by calling on the armed forces to keep order and authorizing soldiers to arrest civilians, Egypt’s state media reported on Saturday.
For all the discussion about the legality and morality (under US or International law) of the US military’s (and spy agencies) use of drones, how is it really different from the way the US military (and all militaries) has used lethal force basically forever? That is not to say it’s fine. That’s an entirely different question. How is it different? We’re discussing that question right now at TPMPrime.
Over about exactly 12 years of running TPM, I’ve exchanged emails with and gotten to know thousands of readers. Some quite well. Many you’ve read as TPM Reader this or that as I reprint their emails in the Editor’s Blog. One of the most special has been Emily Meier, a writer who I’ve been corresponding with for I really don’t know how long, but for many years.
Emily’s been sick for a number of years. But it’s done remarkably little to slow her down until quite recently. And for much of that time she’s been at work on a Civil War novel entitled Suite Harmonic: A Civil War Novel of Rediscovery. Read More
Certainly you’ve seen them, or at least one — that steady drumbeat of oddly normal and yet somehow surreal pictures of post-defeat Mitt Romney that keep showing up everywhere. Here, gassing up the minivan with hair and posture right out of a screen test for The Hangover 5. There, with the family at the local Pizza joint. Later in rollercoaster mode at Disneyland. Read More
TPM Reader DN on the Mitt mystery …
I agree that the photos of Mitt post-election are fascinating. It gives us Mitt unmasked, and that’s riveting. But why?
We’re hiring a Lead Developer to be based out of our New York City office. Build great apps like PollTracker and help guide the developement of the suite of apps that run TPM. Full description after the jump. Read More