Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL) invited a stranger to his home last month to do coke. The catch? That stranger was an undercover cop.
Before he was busted with cocaine, Rep. Trey Radel used to post Facebook photos of himself partying around the world.
After pleading guilty to cocaine possession, Rep. Trey Radel’s big announcement tonight was that he’s taking a leave of absence from Congress and getting treatment for what he described as “this disease.”
The white supremacist leader who was revealed live on air to be of “14 percent sub-Saharan African”, according to a DNA test, is now being targeted by with graffiti about his black heritage at the white supremacist enclave he’s trying to build in in Leith, North Dakota.
Brian Beutler on the limits of trying to refocus the health care reform story on Ted Cruz.
Democratic sources tell TPM that Harry Reid may move to change the Senate filibuster rules for executive and most judicial nominations — as soon as today.
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Harry Reid just announced on the Senate floor that he will move to change the filibuster rules. What we expect is that Reid will in the next few minutes bring up one of the Obama judicial nominees for a vote. When Republicans filibuster, Reid will formally call for a rules change and bring it to a vote. Senate Democrats will prevail on a simply majority vote and the filibuster as we know it will no longer apply to executive branch nominees and judicial nominees below the Supreme Court.
An irate Mitch McConnell is speaking now, calling this move a raw power play and an attempt to distract from the Obamacare problems.