Just a quick observation. The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau serves a five year term. Ignoring Rich Cordray’s ambitions beyond consumer protection for a second, if the GOP had confirmed him in, say, early 2012, his post would have expired in 2017, just as President Rubio was taking office.
If he decides to stick it out the full five years, he’ll be running things until mid 2018.
So today on the Rush Limbaugh show, Rush excitedly proclaimed that because of Rachel Jeantel’s interview, he’s now allowed to say ‘Nigga’. Video and text after the jump … Read More
Mitch Daniels is now President of Purdue University. But back when he was Governor of Indiana he was determined to eliminate filth and liberal “propaganda” from the state school and University system. In addition Daniels wants to cut funding for a program led by a university professor who frequently criticized his education policy. But the big thing was left wing ‘propaganda’. And the most notable case was that he was determined to get assurances that after Howard Zinn’s death none of the radical historian’s books were being used for teaching purposes in the state. Read More
As near as I can tell, besides her father and Erick Erickson, virtually every Republican I can think of came out crapping on Liz Cheney’s decision to carpet bag into Wyoming and trying to unseat resolutely boring sitting Sen. Mike Enzi. And TPM Reader LW thinks Cheney may end up rueing the day …
FWIW, I think Liz Cheney just made a fatal career move. Having lived in WY for 35 years, I do not believe that Liz can beat Enzi. I think this is going to cause all kinds of hard feelings in Wyoming because this kind of disrespect to a man who has done nothing to deserve being disrespected in this way will simply not sit well. It’s a very east coast kind of move (think Cory Booker) and will only serve to remind people that Liz Cheney has absolutely no real history in Wyoming.
We already know that, Jonnie Williams, the donor at the center of the gifts scandal dragging down Gov. McDonnell (R-VA) also gave unreported gifts to his would-be Republicans successor Ken Cuccinelli (R-VA), which are threatening to tank his campaign. Now it turns out he’s seem to have had the same routine going with the Republican who ran for Governor immediately before McDonnell. In other words, three in a row. And to top it off, that guy, Jerry Kilgore, is the guy representing Williams in the investigation. Here’s the story.
As many of you in the psychiatric-therapeutic and stand up comedy professions know, there was an extremely lengthy process preceding the publication of DSM-V last May, the authoritative guide to diagnoses in the mental health world. And as everyone is coming together today to critique and make fun of Richard Cohen’s race column, I wanted to mention a new designation that was not included but almost certainly should have been: Progressive Senescent Columnist Fogeyism (PSCF), an increasingly common ailment in an aging America. (Sometimes Columnist is incorrectly referred to as ‘columnar’.) Read More
Some readers are asking whether Progressive Senescent Columnist Fogeyism is related to a term I coined a few years back, ‘Chronic Racial Grandpaism‘.
I would say they’re related but PSCF is the formal diagnostic category that the DSM-V has chosen. And ‘chronic racial grandpaism’ is something that goes well beyond the world of columnists.
Bob Filner, the Democratic Mayor of San Diego at the center of a cringe-tastic and seemingly endless sexual harassment scandal, is slated to give the keynote address at a benefit for victims of sexual assault.
Obamacare supporters are taking a much-needed victory lap this morning over the news that the law will dramatically reduce individual market premiums in New York state.
That’s a political coup for Democrats, both because the headlines look nice and because they point to the reality that the law will make life better for thousands of people. New York’s a big state!
But as I’m sure others have already pointed out, New York’s also a unique state. And the health policy status quo there makes today’s news entirely predictable. Read More
Here’s why I’m experiencing a little schadenfreude over the news that Liz Cheney’s gonna run for Senate. And it has almost nothing to do with her dad, or the possibility that she’ll win her primary and give Democrats an opening to run nationwide against the return of Cheney.
Liz Cheney is the über-Republican. She personifies the fusionist nature of her party better than anyone I can think of. She spouts the kind of extreme rhetoric you might expect to hear from paranoid, socially conservative base voters and certain back-bench members of the House GOP, but her politics are textbook Beltway hawkish conservatism — axe social insurance programs, cut taxes, deregulate industries, swagger in foreign affairs, etc. Read More