- All 170 House Republicans joined Democrats to unanimously pass legislation banning fundraising letters that look like official Census mailings, like mailers previously sent by the RNC and NRCC. Woah, actual bipartisanship! (AP)
- Doug Hoffman has a new tactic for his second run for Congress: he will actually live in New York’s 23rd district this time. (Adirondack Daily Enterprise)
- The Oklahoma Senate has passed a bill that would basically opt Oklahoma out of federal hate crimes laws because gays are icky and gross. (The Oklahoman)
- A Muslim imam gave the opening prayer in Virginia’s House of Delegates today, even though he is a Muslim! This, of course, was cause for protests outside the state Capitol. (WaPo)
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- Britain’s Met Office is 95% certain that people are the cause of global warming. Maybe that’s true for the foreigns, but we don’t believe in your “science” here in ‘Murica! (Times)
- Gov. Bob McDonnell is doing all the same things that candidate Bob McDonnell criticized Tim Kaine for. Apparently your news media is still surprised by Republican hypocrisy. (WaPo)
- Sen. Jim DeMint did not like the RNC fundraising powerpoint, but only because it didn’t have quite enough “MarxBama iz turrible Socializm!!111!11!” in it. (St. Petersburg Times)
- Former New York State Senator Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens) is using the Obama campaign logo to run for the same Senate seat he was expelled from after being convicted for domestic abuse. Yes He Can… hope no one remembers he was convicted for domestic violence. (Manhattan Young Dems)
- David Axelrod is not a fan of this “Washington” place, where everyone is so mean to David Axelrod. (NYT)
It Came From… the Internet!
In the process of the defending the RNC’s unambiguously terrible fundraising presentation (where shall we begin? The picture of Obama as the Joker? Mocking the RNC’s small donors as clueless rubes?), RNC head Michael Steele seems to have missed the real issue:
STEELE: It was unfortunate. It was, you know those are images that were pulled off the internet. They’ve been out in the public domain for a while and a staffer was putting together a presentation for a small group of about 9 or 10 folks and thought they would intersperse their presentation with humorous shots. [...] It was stuff that was pulled off the web that was inserted into a presentation to members of a finance team. It did not go out publicly.
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think copyright infringement is the reason for the sane world’s reaction to the fundraising pitch. Nobody’s saying, “Hey, that picture of Nancy Pelosi next to cartoon villain Cruella DeVil offends me because it reproduces a Disney character without permission!” Or perhaps Steele is trying to blame the internet for… existing? Magically downloading itself into the RNC’s PowerPoints?
Here’s hilarious video:
- Welcome to yet another episode of “homophobic ‘family values’ Republican drunkenly stumbles out of gay nightclub.” This week, California! (CBS13)
- Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) says he and a dozen of his buddies will continue to let Americans die because they cannot afford health insurance. This is the very definition of “pro-life.” (The Hill)
- The RNC has unveiled its 2010 election strategy: exploit our dumb donors’ fear of the black guy. No one could have predicted, etc. (Politico)
- Most House Republicans would rather let schools physically and mentally abuse children than vote for a bill that a Democrat introduced. (Media Matters Action Network)
- HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebeilus has politely asked insurance companies to be more transparent about premium increases. So, no need for a healthcare reform bill then! (MSNBC)
- Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) is such a Washington outsider! After all she has only been there for, oh, twelve years. First person to get pics of Blanche Lincoln in a Razorbacks jersey wins! (CNN)
- Remember Philly’s Valley Swim Club, which famously kicked a group of black kids out of its pool because of their race? It is filing for bankruptcy and closing because of the whole “overt racism” thing. (Philadelphia Daily News)
- In addition to abortion, the RNC’s health insurer also offers end-of-life counseling or, as Sarah Palin would call it, “death panels.” Why does Michael Steele want to kill all of his employees’ grandparents in a bureaucratically efficient manner? (ThinkProgress)
- Here is a look into the thought process behind Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators in a New York City civilian court. (Washington Post)
- President Obama urged members of Congress this morning not to politicize the trial of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan for the November 5 Fort Hood shootings. Um, Mr. President, have you met these members of Congress? (CNN Political Ticker)
- Before last year’s vice presidential debate, Joe Lieberman advised Sarah Palin to be herself and not let the McCain campaign “tell you what to say or how to think.” Thanks, Joe! Maybe he really is a Democrat after all! (WSJ Washington Wire)
RNC Regrets Accidental Pro-Women Stance
Turns out the Republican National Committee’s insurance plan allows its female employees to make their own decisions about their reproductive health. But don’t worry, the RNC plans to change all that:
The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”
Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion.
Informed of the coverage, RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho told POLITICO that the policy pre-dates the tenure of current RNC Chairman Michael Steele.
“The current policy has been in effect since 1991, and we are taking steps to address the issue,” Gitcho said.
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“We were not aware of this, obviously, and this will, of course, be fixed,” said James Bopp Jr., a Republican National Committeeman from Indiana. “I think Chairman Steele will see to it that that’s the case.”Rep. Jack Kingston, a Georgia conservative, said “they need to drop that clause” from the policy or find a new one.
“From a philosophical standpoint, it’s inconsistent,” Kingston said. “It makes me think someone isn’t scrutinizing the purchases.”
Whoops! Wouldn’t want anyone to think Republicans believe women should be in control of their own bodies!
Update: Another interpretation: IOKIYAR.
Senate Democrats Win Important Baseball Debate. Also, Healthcare.
- Oh look, here is Harry Reid with your public option, for healthcare, even though Her Majesty Queen Olympia Snowe does not care for it! (CBS News)
- If the Democrats really cared about bipartisanship, they would have let the St. Louis Cardinals go to the World Series. (NYT The Caucus)
- Some of the RNC’s Facebook friends are terribly racist and do not care for our mixed-race president. (Raw Story)
- President Obama has more women in his Cabinet than any previous president. But does he invite them over for basketball enough? That is the real important question. (ABC News)
- Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) took his daughter to a public clinic to get the terrible socialist swine flu vaccine that he voted not to fund. What will Glenn Beck say? (Roll Call via Daily Kos)
John Ensign’s Parents Have Some Cash for Everyone These Days
- Sen. John Ensign’s parents, who famously paid off the family of Ensign’s mistress, are also maxed-out donors to Harry Reid’s re-election campaign. Is John Ensign having an affair with him now too? Or is John Ensign, along with the rest of the Senate GOP, only metaphorically screwing Reid? (CQ Politics)
- Losing his job and his health insurance left one Wisconsin man with no choice but to join the Army to pay for his wife’s chemotherapy. So please, Congress, just take your time with this whole healthcare reform thing. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- And speaking of which, given the choice between passing a public option with only Democratic votes and failing to do anything in a spectacular but bipartisan way, most Americans choose the public option. Hopefully this influences the only person whose vote really matters, Queen Olympia I. (ABC News)
- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is deeply disappointed that anyone thought that they might actually believe in global warming, and they would like to reinforce that they definitely do not think climate change is happening. (CNN Political Ticker)
- The DNC demands that the RNC start mopping up the mess in Washington and stop… kicking over the bucket of nasty grey mop-water? This mop analogy was good for a while, but I think it’s gone about as far as it can go. (MSNBC First Read)
We Are All Kenyans
- Have you seen Orly Taitz’s Kenyan birth certificate yet? Incontrovertible evidence! (KenyanBirthCerficiateGenerator.com)
- The teabaggers have an exciting new way of expressing their opposition to healthcare reform: physically assaulting members of Congress! (Roll Call via Think Progress)
- Your DNC is interested in whether the RNC’s refrigerators are running, and vice versa. (Ben Smith)
- Retiring Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) will never have to run for office again in Missouri, so he will vote for Sonia Sotomayor. (CNN Political Ticker)
- What a shame! Your Washington Post has canceled Dana Milbank and Chris Cilizza’s “Hillary Clinton is a Huge Bitch Comedy Hour” series of YouTube videos. (WaPo)
If You Play Nice, Maybe You Can Have Healthcare
- Your RNC is just not comfortable with handing over the company credit card to Michael Steele to spend on his “hip hop,” or whatever it is the kids are saying doing days. (The Hill/Washington Times)
- If healthcare reformers don’t stop saying mean things about healthcare reform blocker Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), then he will pull this car over right now! and nobody will get healthcare. (TPMDC)
- Here are some lovely photos of that time someone at the Pentagon thought it would be a good idea to fly Air Force One straight over the Manhattan skyline. (NYT The Caucus)
- President McCain just does not care for this Obama upstart and his “change” that he keeps talking about. (CNN Political Ticker)
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