Former GOP rising star Dr. Ben Carson thinks the progressive Kristallnacht is upon us too.
In this thread at The Hive (sub req), they’re discussing who Hillary’s VP pick should be!
On the other hand, if Reince Priebus is really serious about this idea, Hillary may be impossible to beat.
The tea party may have suffered some crushing defeats, but Sahil Kapur reports on how in many ways, they’re still running the show.
Nevada will no longer defend its state constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage. The decision was formally made by Democratic Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto. But notably, Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval says he agrees with the decision.
To be clear, that doesn’t mean same sex marriage is now legal. It means that no one will defend the amendment against the various lawsuits assailing it and similar state bans around the country.
House Republicans are scheduling a vote for Wednesday on a proposal to lift the debt limit for roughly one year. But what was once a reckless game of chicken has descended into a ridiculous charade. Gone are the days when House Republicans threatened to force the country into default if the President wouldn’t agree to vast cuts in spending. Now, as the price of a debt limit increase, Republicans are demanding a spending increase.
[ed.note: Reposting because I foolishly used the wrong link on round one. Our RSS feeds are more reliable than my linking skills.]
If you use RSS, our TPMPrime subscription comes with full feeds of all TPM articles. Free of all ads. No need to click through. Ever. For more details click here.
Disappointing as some of the reactions to college football player and soon to be NFL draft pick, Michael Sam, coming out of the closet have been, I must say that when the battle for equality has moved to the pro-Football locker room, the antis are way back on their ten or maybe 5 yard line.
Ed Kilgore: “On issue after issue, congressional Republicans have struggled to do nothing without doing damage to themselves.”
House GOP leadership told its members in a meeting this morning that they will bring a CLEAN debt limit bill to the floor Wednesday. More soon …
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee weigh the debate economists chew over in their excerpt from The Second Machine Age today: Is innovation slowing — or speeding up?