Not totally surprising but worth noting. The GOP antis on the immigration bill appear to be writing off the Senate as a place to stop or significantly change the bill. They’ll try to kill it in the House.
Like the OJ Simpson trial almost twenty years ago, there are some public events which not only divide people but divide you against people you didn’t expect to be divided against. As a Republican you may be used to disagreeing with Democrats and vice versa. But with these other kinds of public events you have the shock of realizing you had very different sets of assumptions or even values than people you were used to agreeing with. I’m not sure of how TPM Readers in general feel about the Snowden story. But there’s no question that a lot of readers are surprised and in many cases angry about what I’ve written on the subject. Read More
What the extradition procedures look like in Hong Kong and how the US might actually be able to get around them.
We’ve got a lot going on at the moment in this country. And with our small staff, there’s always only a limited number of stories we can focus on in any depth. With that said, I’ve been watching the situation in Turkey very closely and with mounting concern. We’re going to try to give the situation at least somewhat more attention today, even with these other stories unfolding. But we are watching and I’m very curious to get reader tips, comment and pointers on how the story is unfolding.
I’m late to this. But I hadn’t heard the plans to build a new Central American canal – through Nicaragua and funded by a Chinese consortium – are so far advanced. Amazing mix of issues of engineering, geography, faltering US economic clout and political initiative, China’s economic rise and the long memory of Daniel Ortega.
GOP Rep. returns to always successful efforts to discuss pros and cons of rape.
Sen. Tester all but supporting Snowden leak. “First of all, Snowden probably shouldn’t have done what he did. But the fact of the matter is is I don’t see how that compromises the security of this country whatsoever. And quite frankly, it helps people like me become aware of a situation that I wasn’t aware of before because I don’t sit on that Intelligence Committee.” Read.
The AP has more details on Pope Francis’ comments confirming the existence of a Vatican “gay lobby.” Read More
“I regard your forum as Democratic Party propaganda and your personal attacks against me as similar to attacks made by the Nazi Party against Jews when the Nazi Party was gaining power in Europe or attacks made by the Communist Party against non-Communists.”
More from, I guess, Not TPM Reader RW …
At some point during the last general election cycle, your discussion group started sending your advertisement for discussion points to my Juno e-mail account. I started discussing the topics of discussion and was evidently tolerated at that time because I predicted that the Romney campaign was going to fail and that the Republicans were done as a political party and would come out of this election about like the Federalists did out of the election of 1800.
House set to vote on nationwide ban on abortions past 20 weeks.