Preening, Tribble-topped presidential aspirant Rand Paul is reportedly going to introduce a bill today to repeal the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iraq. The White House is said to support the bill in theory: “The administration supports the repeal of the Iraq AUMF since it is no longer used for any …
Archives for January 14, 2014
The politics of ooh feeling good
Chris Christie was photographed with David Wildstein on September 11 of 2013, during the lane closure. A few days ago, Christie claimed: “I have had no contact with David Wildstein in a long time, a long time, well before the election,” which was held Nov. 5, Mr. Christie said last week. “You know, I could …
Just a little walking around money
In case you needed another reason to loathe Howie Kurtz, go to Gawker and enjoy. It looks a lot like Kurtz used his profile to help secure a whole lot of funding for a minor wingnut website called the Daily Download along with a minor figure named Lauren Ashburn. Kurtz seems to have drawn a …
Open Thread
Here’s a topic — Who’s the first Christie ex-employee who’s going to spill?
Update on the Awful Kellers
The New York Times has yet to correct Bill Keller’s misleading lede of his shitty column about Lisa Adams: Lisa Bonchek Adams has spent the last seven years in a fierce and very public cage fight with death. Her blog was started in 2009. Her metastases were discovered in 2012. After the Guardian pulled the …
How Not to Do It
We’re having a bit of a dust up over the new Rochester Mayor, Lovely Ann Warren. Lovely is a protege of the awful David Gantt, and she apparently learned a few bad habits from him. Lovely went around civil service rules to hire her uncle to head the first-ever security detail for a mayor here, …
Tuesday Morning Open Thread
(Ben Sargent via GoComics.com) Well, the spending bill has been unveiled, and to call it a dog’s breakfast would be a slur on the gustatory fastidiousness of the average street cur. Per the Washington Post: Congressional negotiators unveiled a $1.1 trillion funding bill late Monday that would ease sharp spending cuts known as the sequester …