If Jim DeMint concluded that he overreached in his first year as president of the Heritage Foundation and decided he needed to reel things back in to restore relations with Republicans in Congress, with the business wing of the GOP, and with funders, what would it look like?
It would probably look a lot like this week’s hire of Stephen Moore as the new “chief economist” for the foundation. That’s how some conservatives who have been at odds recently with Heritage are seeing it. Dylan Scott reports on the initial reactions and talks with Moore himself.
Gabriel Sherman, author of the new book on Roger Ailes, talks to TPM about the “deep sadness” he ultimately came to feel for Ailes.
George Zimmerman releases his latest work of art in his profiting off Trayvon Martin’s murder business.
At Republican National Committee winter conference, former and future presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says government shouldn’t be underwriting the horniness of horny women with birth control.
See the quote for yourself at the link above. But there’s already a lot of pushback saying that the words might have been ill-chosen but if you really read the comments in their entirety … No. Sorry. Read the comments. The premise and meaning is crystal clear: birth control is something for women who can’t keep their legs closed.
Subtext: Female desire is scaaaaaaarrrrrrryyyyyyy …
Coming off Huckabee’s comments this morning about incentivizing horny women with birth control, Rep. Louis Gohmert says government tries to “lure” single moms into “servitude” with welfare. Watch.
Usually the elected official gets indicted in a corruption scandal – not spouses or relatives, even when they may have benefited from the elected’s bad acts. Here’s a pretty good explanation of why Maureen McDonnell broke that mold.
When Rick Santorum says you really chose your words poorly when talking about why contraception is evil.
Republicans now considering using debt default hostage to sabotage Obamacare.