Donald Trump, May 2011: “When it comes to racism and racists. I am the least racist person there is. And I think most people that know me would tell you that. I am the least racist. I’ve had great relationships.”
You’ve got a mission, Son.
I won’t lie to you. You may not come back. Probably a better chance than not you don’t.
But over behind those thickets and hedgerows, somewhere past that barbed wire, there’s a kid, a billionaire kid. And he needs to see his family again. With all his assets and annual income intact. Read More
Jill Kelley losing South Korean ‘Honorary Consul’ Status.
The most popular (by far) Republican in West Virginia is going to take on Sen. Jay Rockefeller next year in the increasingly Republican state of West Virginia. Luckily the Club for Growth is on the case and prepping to take her out like so many other GOP sure winners in the past.
Who will be West Virginia’s Todd Akin and Christine O’Donnell?
With Rep. Peter King (R-NY) stepping down as Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, we look back at some of his greatest hits, from Muslim radicalization hearing from his doomed effort to make his own homemade episode of Cops wtih a US Marshals ride along last March.
Is it the end of the line for Grover Norquist, with a handful of Republicans now saying they’ll break their pledge and support tax hikes in the fiscal cliff negotiations? TPM Reporter Sahil Kapur will answer your questions at 4 PM Eastern this afternoon in a TPMPrime Live Chat. Got fiscal cliff questions? How is Norquist so powerful? Get your questions in now.
From TPM Reader ML …
Your libertarian friend’s reasoning about top rates versus deductions may make sense as a hypothetical Fabian strategy, but I doubt that is the principle behind the majority of Republicans’ and conservative activists’ rejection of higher rates and alleged acceptance of limiting or ending deductions. I will bet that the majority have not come to some sort of psychological acceptance that rates will inevitably rise, and that they simply can delay the first round to mitigate the cumulative result. While Walsh and West got defeated, the overwhelming bulk of Tea Party freshmen were reelected in a Democratic year, so why should they suddenly come to accept the need for higher income tax rates, even if only for the future and not right now? Their reelection “vindicated” them.
200,000 turn out to protest Morsi constitutional power grab in Tahrir square.
TPM Reader YF asks something I’ve been wondering. Is it really such a hot idea to cap the home mortgage deduction at all?
First- haven’t the GOP been harping about making the tax code simpler for years? Doesn’t the ease with which they have got behind a salad of rolling deduction caps and comically absurd apply-upper-bracket-rate-to-lower-bracket-money voodoo totally expose their actual and only concern to be protecting the 1% from paying their way? I know, we knew this already- but won’t someone in the MSM ask them about this?
As I mentioned last night, the new drama in DC is that Democrats need to solve a new hostage crisis, only now with a twist: Grover Norquist has taken Republican officeholders hostage and Democrats have to ransom them so they can make a deal. Like I said, Why? This is their problem. But along those lines Republicans are now proposing increasingly silly workarounds where they can raise taxes without violating the Grover pledge. Like second virginity, these ‘solutions’ are just more of those oxymorons that are not only impossible but based on a ‘problem’ that is intrinsically moronic and needless. Here’s the latest example.
Like I said, get a life. Get into therapy. This isn’t anyone else’s problem.