The state official in charge of administering Pennsylvania’s Voter ID Law, in court today: “I don’t know what the law says.”
President Obama, Harry Reid and John Boehner have reached a budget deal to avert a government shutdown before the election — but the Speaker apparently still needs time to strong-arm enough of his members into voting for it to pass the House. To give him time to do that, a vote on the deal has been put off until September.
Headline of the day goes to Huffington Post: “Harry Reid: Bain Investor Told Me That Mitt Romney ‘Didn’t Pay Any Taxes For 10 Years'”
A couple caveats. Neither Reid nor his office will divulge the name of the Bain investor in question. In fact, Reid himself acknowledges that he has no idea if his anonymous source is correct, or has any way of knowing this information. You’d think if Democrats had disgruntled Bain investors reaching out to them, they’d give them some media coaching and put them before the press, on the record. Read More
I was waiting for this to happen. Just when conservatives got in the groove and excited embracing Mitt Romney’s comments on Palestinian “culture,” Romney turns around and disavows the statement.
On try number three, Romney now says he stands behind remarks on Palestinian “culture.”
Philly mayor to TPM about Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law: “This is one of the most frustrating, confusing, and — at the moment at least — poorly implemented solutions to a problem that we’re not even sure what it is.”
A glimpse into how an active duty soldier stationed overseas gets hooked up with militant white supremacists back home.
I’m usually very reluctant to ascribe deeper meaning to silly gaffes and made-for-TV stumbles by politicians because most of the time no deeper meaning exists. Period. Shit happens. Stupid shit happens a lot.
But two things make Mitt’s Grand Gaffe Tour an exception to this rule. Read More
The TPM Electoral Scoreboard moves to Obama 310, Romney 191 as new Quinnipiac/NYT/CBS poll nudges Florida from Toss-Up to Leans Obama.