- Daily Kos radio launches this weekend! Catch Armando and David Waldman (Kagro X) on Sirius/XM this Saturday, 10 a.m. ET. If you are not a subscriber, you can get a free web trial here.
- Deja vu?
Mitt Romney is not the first of his family to contend for the GOP?s nomination to the presidency. In 1967, George W. Romney, Mitt Romney?s father, was actually leading Richard Nixon in the race for the GOP nomination. His lead quickly evaporated after an infamous verbal faux pas. During an interview, then-Gov. Romney explained that his inconsistency on the Vietnam War was the result of ?the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get.?
According to Wikipedia, ?the topic of brainwashing quickly became newspaper editorial and television talk show fodder, with Romney bearing the brunt of the topical humor.? Sound familiar? Yesterday?s dust-up at an Iowa town hall ? in which the younger Romney made the strange claim that ?corporations are people? ? is similarly becoming the subject of topical humor.
- Post-debate, WATB edition:
Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum sounded off Friday morning about Thursday evening?s GOP presidential debate in Ames, where many analysts and pundits characterized him as more of a bystander than a participant.
Within the debate?s first 45 minutes, Santorum had received roughly one minute of face time, and finally, appearing frustrated, the former Senator raised his hand and remarked, ?I haven?t gotten to say a lot.?
- Oh, brother:
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York called a new city requirement that sex education be taught at all public middle and high schools ?troubling? on Wednesday, and some Catholic officials said they would advise Catholic parents not to let their children participate.
Really? The Catholic Archdiocese is qualified to lecture about children and sex?
- Keeping it classy:
GOP Rep. Louis Gohmert told a conservative talk show host earlier this week that having Nancy Pelosi?s face on golf balls would put ?oomph? into your game, and joked with the host that he would help him find a sleeve of Pelosi-stamped balls.
- A "shakedown"? Is that what we're calling it these days?
Emails shared with The Indianapolis Star suggest that state Rep. Phillip Hinkle -- responding to a local posting on Craigslist -- offered a young man $80 plus tip to spend time with him Saturday night at the JW Marriott hotel.
The emails, sent from Hinkle's publicly listed personal address, ask the young man for "a couple hours of your time tonight" and offer him cash up front, with a tip of up to $50 or $60 "for a really good time."
The email exchange is in response to the Craigslist posting in which the young man -- who lists his age as 20 in the ad but says he is 18 years old -- says, "I need a sugga daddy."
The young man told The Star that they met, but that he tried to leave after the man told him he was a state lawmaker. He said the lawmaker at first told him he could not leave, grabbed him in the rear, exposed himself to the young man and then later gave him an iPad, BlackBerry cellphone and $100 cash to keep quiet.
When contacted by The Star about the emails, Hinkle, a Republican who represents portions of Pike and Wayne townships, did not contest the emails but said, "I am aware of a shakedown taking place."
- Comedy:
Christine O?Donnell reveals in her new book that the ?lowest moment? of her failed 2010 Senate campaign came when the Delaware Republican made the now-infamous assurance to voters: ?I am not a witch.?
- The Atlantic is heating up and right now four disturbances stretch across the ocean like a daisy chain of possible destruction. Two of them are classic Cape Verde tropical waves and look particularly promising for near term development. -- DS
- Some summer reading:
Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History Vol. 1
- Sad and scary:
When asked where they would turn if they needed $1,000 in cash fast, only 34 percent of Americans would look to their savings accounts for the money, according to a recent online poll by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. The other 64 percent would be forced to go elsewhere, from taking out a loan to borrowing from a family member. In a study released in June, Bankrate reported that only 24 percent of the nation has access to six-months of emergency savings, the majority of whom come from high-income households. In contrast, corporations today are sitting on close to $1.12 trillion in cash, a 59 percent increase from 2008.
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