The first President Bush shaves his head in solidarity with the 2 year old son of a member of his security detail who is undergoing treatment for leukemia.
Matt Bevin, McConnell’s newly announced Tea Party challenger for next year’s Republican Senate nomination, says he’s ready to spend his own money on the campaign (of which he apparently has a lot). Meanwhile, the main Tea Party and Tea Party-leaning PACs, the ones who sometimes take out viable candidates, are saying they’re at least open to considering supporting Bevin.
President Obama tried to turn the conversation back toward the economy, but had to compete with Republican opposition and goats on slides.
Swedish politician accidentally posts picture of his private parts on Instagram.
Since everyone misunderstood and assumed Anthony Weiner stopped sexting after he resigned from Congress in 2011, he’s not surprisingly now being pressed on well, just when did you stop. And he’s now given an answer: “Last summer. Yeah, roughly August. Maybe even a little earlier than that.”
This then is his line in the digital sand. Nothing after August 2012, maybe even nothing after July 2012. Presumably if something else comes up from April, that’s it.
On the other hand, why should that really be it? We can probably just keep doing this every few days, rinse, repeat start over.
However, it does raise an intriguing possibility. Right, fundraiser. August starts in little more than a week. So an opportunity based on Weiner’s one year anniversary on the wagon. You heard it here first.
Rand Paul says no one in Congress has a “stronger belief in minority rights” than me. Would think those that don’t have white supremacists on staff probably qualify but who knows.
Here’s brief, shocking footage of the moment of that deadly high speed train crash in Spain caught on camera. Seems like it was a surveillance camera which must have itself been destroyed by the impact. After the jump … Read More
Even I’ve been surprised at how rapidly Southern states have moved on crackdowns on voting after the reins of the Voting Rights Act were removed. Now Florida’s back to voter purges.
In my experience, Obamacare opponents are equally adamant about two things: that the law should and will fail; and that nobody should ever say anything mean about them.
They bristle visibly when you note — as Norm Ornstein just did — that the implementation hurdles they’ve erected amount to “sabotage.” Read More
GOP's "white" gamble for '16: O lost white/wmn by 14; new @maristpoll shows #HRC trails Christie w/them by 6, Jeb by 7, and leading Rubio.
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) July 24, 2013
There’s a little Twitterese. So in case there’s any unclarity, according to these very early polls, Hillary Clinton is polling substantially better among white women than President Obama did in 2012. And remember, Obama won. Also notably, the relative percentage of white women in the electorate will probably be a bit smaller in 2016 than it was in 2012. Read More