So a paradoxical dynamic now in the ‘Defund Obamacare’ alternative universe. House leaders are struggling to find a way to make the issue go away. But the Tea Party senators – who of course don’t need to worry about running anything – are taking a hard line and really making life hell for the leadership in the House.
A good look at what the effort to sabotage Obamacare looks like down in the trenches.
It had to happen eventually. Today was Gretchen Carlson’s last day as a host of Fox & Friends. Check out some highlights from her curvy couch sendoff:
Not his metaphorical muscle. His actual muscles. In an arm-wrestling match, “he put me down in a millisecond,” says Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), “He just – muscles were just unbelievable.”
After Dems float a way to bring up Sen. Vitter’s prostitution history, he flips and demands a bribery probe into Reid and Boxer. Because something.
As Sahil Kapur reports, GOP now in the process of being disemboweled by anti-Obamacare monster they worked so hard to create.
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The big news from yesterday, Larry Summers pulls his name from consideration for Fed Chair.
A sad, weird coda to our 9/11 commemoration discussion. After a year of exploitation by congressional Republicans, State Department staffers who wanted to commemorate the one year anniversary of the attack that killed Amb. Chris Stevens and three others in Benghazi, Libya were forced to hold their own unofficial memorial in the State Department lobby. We heard about it from a State Department staffer who worked with Stevens in Libya who was understandably disappointed that State declined to hold any memorial or even send anyone to the informal gathering. State Department spokesman Alec Gerlach pointed to the degree of politicization of the event as one reason why no official event was held.