Mikey Likes It! (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The weekend! At last! Long and fun day and night. It's already Saturday morning so I'm behind, sorry. Okay, this is from Manu Raju (Politico -- has the listen option as well as text) : Max Baucus, chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, recommended that the White House nominate his girlfriend as a U.S. attorney in Montana, his office announced late Friday night. Earlier this...
Balloon Juice (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
So Manu Raju has a multiple page piece in the Politico explaining that Republican Senators are mad, very mad, that the Franken amendment a few months ago to stop contractors from contractually mandating employees from going through arbitration when they are raped or sexually assaulted. There is all sorts of inside-the-beltway good ol’ boy [...]
Zandar Versus The Stupid (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
So, remember Sen. Al Franken's amendment to the military budget bill that would have allowed rape victims to actually take military contractors to court? You know, the one that was voted against by 30 male Republicans ? Well, it turns out that the Republicans don't much appreciate being portrayed as the misogynist bastards that they are after a couple of months, and they've gotten Politico's Manu...
James Wolcott's Blog (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... go-go lounge of recividist grinders without shame or flair, from Mike Allen to John Harris to Manu Raju . Although consensual grinding between adults is neither criminal nor immoral, it does make for a tacky spectacle, which is why I must avert my eyes from this week's Meet the Press, when host David Gregory, Karl Rove's former dance mate , will be journalistically sexting that perpetual...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Republican senators feel burned by Al Franken — and not by his old jokes. Manu Raju Politico.com The Republicans are steamed at Franken because partisans on the left are using a measure he sponsored to paint them as rapist sympathizers — and because Franken isn’t doing much to stop them. “Trying to tap into the natural sympathy that we have for this victim of this...
