- White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers will resign from her job, thus resolving the single greatest political crisis of our century. (MSNBC)
- America’s Fred Thompson woke up from a week-long nap to guffaw at Janet Napolitano’s broken ankle on the Twitters, an event which took place last Sunday. (Washington Independent)
- Here is a YouTube of Republican Sen. Judd Gregg talking about how great reconciliation is. It is from a few years ago, before Democrats were in power and that hippie Obama tried to put him in the Cabinet. (via Blue Virginia)
- Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) introduced this amendment which would make it illegal for Americans to torture people, a thing which is already illegal. But House Republicans whined about it so Democrats caved, as usual. (CNN)
- Illinoisans can go online to Gov. Pat Quinn’s campaign website in the next couple weeks to see all the candidates for America’s Next Top Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, hopefully none of whom are batterers this time! (STL Post-Dispatch)
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- House Democrats don’t think they can convince Americans to support… cutting the deficit by making rich people pay more taxes. What are House Democrats even for, anyway? (The Hill)
- Mocking Sarah Palin’s crib notes is a terrible affront to the Baby Trig because Palin is just not subject to the same rules as other politicians, also too. (ThinkProgress)
- Oh, and speaking of which, Sarah Palin simply cannot stop lying about things to serve her political interests. Palin 2012! (The Plum Line)
- FOX News uses fraudulent polls, according to Bill O’Reilly and Karl Rove. FOX = ACORN?!?!?! (Daily Kos)
- Terrible batterer Scott Cohen will drop out of the Illinois Lieutenant Governor race to be replaced by… well, pretty much anyone. (WGN-TV)
- Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), the first Vietnam vet elected to the House, has died at the age of 77. (Press Release)
How Did Nobody Notice This?
Illinois Democrats just nominated an accused batterer for Lieutenant Governor:
Scott Lee Cohen — a pawnbroker who shocked state Democratic leaders Tuesday night by winning the party’s nomination for lieutenant governor — was arrested about four-and-a-half years ago and accused of holding a knife to a former live-in girlfriend’s neck, newly obtained court records show.
The misdemeanor charge against Cohen was dropped weeks later when the woman — who had just been found guilty of prostitution — failed to show up to testify, according to those records.
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Cohen disclosed his domestic violence arrest when he announced his candidacy, but the details about the knife and prostitution case didn’t surface in the campaign, as Cohen was considered a longshot.
So let me get this straight. He admitted to having been arrested for DV, nobody bothered to ask him about the details of that arrest, and then they nominated him to the Democratic ticket anyway? Ingenious. Maybe Democrats should just give up on this whole “winning elections” business entirely.
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