Some astonishing news came out of South Carolina Sunday. And it was good news. According to a new Winthrop poll, 52% of South Carolinians oppose legal recognition of same sex marriages. 39% support. That’s still a thin majority of adults in the state who oppose gay marriage. But, My God … this is South Carolina.
At this point, in my role as crisis communications expert, I think Paul just needs to relabel, rebrand the new book as an anthology and put this controversy to rest.
More seriously, there does seem to be an intergenerational issue in the Paul clan with plagiarist and racist staffers continually foisting on their byline things they didn’t write and in many cases who the foisters didn’t write either.
Check out this great discussion at The Hive (sub req) about where Obamacare is one month in. Bumpy roll out? Signs of troubles to come?
Cuccinelli finishing out the campaign by bringing in Ron Paul to suggest insurrectionist “nullifcation” strategy against the federal government.
Overall I think Politico has been doing a really good job of tracking congressional efforts to curb sexual assault in the military, reporting on it even as attention turned to other issues like Syria and pointing out that the military has been dragging its feet on any accountability of this issue for decades.
But man, this story today makes me lose my faith. It includes sentences like this:
Even as the problem of military sexual assault has gotten more attention, there’s been no drop-off in women signing up to serve. In fact, all four branches of the military say they’ve hit their recruitment marks in recent years, with the number of enlisted women holding steady at roughly 15 percent.
Let’s try not to express astonishment at women entering the military despite sexual assault statistics. There are many problems with this framing, but here are just a few:
Doug Ford, defender, brother of Crack Mayor Rob Ford and also a Toronto City Councilor, now says the city’s police chief should resign and claims the chief “wanted to go out and put a political bullet right between the mayor’s eyes.”
And there you have it. Mayor Rob Ford says yes, I smoked crack. Even better he suggests he may not originally have realized he’d smoked crack because it was “probably in one of my drunken stupors.” So which is worse? Your Mayor smoked crack or your Mayor smoked crack but may not know it because it only happened during his frequent black out drinking binges. So he didn’t or he didn’t? It’s almost like Schrodinger’s Crack.
We’re waiting for a press conference in which Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is scheduled to make a major “announcement.” At the moment, he appears to be running late. And remember, this is after announcing earlier this morning that he’s smoked crack but probably in one of his “drunken stupors.” So it’s hard to imagine what can top that. But here’s the live feed for your viewing pleasure.
A small data point certainly. But an establishment/mainstream Republican beat out a Tea Party activist for the Republican nomination for Alabama’s first congressional district tonight.
Overall, pretty difficult to see much that came out of tonight’s results that was anything but bad for the Tea Party or really the national Republican party as currently constituted – which is to say, under Tea Party dominance.