Harry Reid is too cagey a politician to get dragged into a pissing match without the goods. Now the GOP has taken to their fainting couch over Reid's assertions, but they can't back up their side with anything other than cry-baby hissy fits, while the Democrats get to play the badasses for once. The fact that story continues to back Romney into a deeper and deeper corner can be confirmed by the ever more desperate squeals from the GOP.

If only these victims had been armed....

Tattoos on the body of the slain Sikh temple gunman and certain biographical details led the FBI to treat the attack at a Milwaukee-area temple as an act of domestic terrorism, officials said Sunday. The shootings in Oak Creek, Wis., left seven dead, including the gunman, and three critically wounded. One of the injured was a police officer who was expected to survive.

The CRI continues to pay "Dr" John Stapleford to wax eloquent on the conservative utopia that Delaware would be if we only followed the conservative example of states like Somalia and Haiti. If you have the stomach for it, click on for his latest.

There have been a surge of stories about bewildered GOP "moderates" who have recently discovered that they belong to a political party that stands for strident cluelessness and lunacy.

I know it totally hurts the NRAs feelings to talk about the easy access that maniacs in this country have to guns and ammo. I know the NRA's flunkies in congress might tear up if someone suggests that allowing maniacs to buy 20 guns a month and thousands of rounds of ammo online isn't such a good idea. We have to some compassion for the poor victims of gun control talk. I know all of that. It is just so mean and thoughtless to make anyone think about our absurd gun politics. That's why I'm worried that this legislation might be a little lacking in empathy for the NRA.

for 50 years of bending over backwards to prop up conservative nonsense, shallow "he said/she said" reporting and a devotion to incuriousness posing as objectivity? Scorned. And they richly deserve it. These findings from a Daily Kos/SEIU poll are not surprising.

600 million people without electricity is a hell of a lot of people without electricity.

A Romney spokesperson cursed at the traveling press corps in Warsaw, Poland on Tuesday when the press tried to ask questions of the presumptive Republican nominee, reports CNN.

Traveling press secretary Rick Gorka told reporters from the NYT and CNN to "shove it" and invited them to kiss his ass. Here’s part of the transcript, from CNN:

NYT: “Governor Romney do you feel that your gaffes have overshadowed your foreign trip?” CNN: “Governor Romney just a few questions sir, you haven’t taken but three questions on this trip from the press! Gorka: “Show some respect” NYT: “We haven’t had another chance to ask a question…” Gorka: “Kiss my ass. This is a Holy site for the Polish people. Show some respect.”

I'm sure that this doesn't move any undecideds, but it does add to the picture of a Romney campaign spinning out of control.

I wish I didn't have to wonder.

TPMDC

House Dems To Force Vote On Middle-Income Bush Tax Cuts

Japan’s World Cup-winning women’s soccer team flew to the London Olympics in coach, while their male counterparts, who have never won jack shit, flew business class on the same plane. Japanese IOC committee explained that while the women's team is ranked third in the world and the men's team is ranked 20th, they are still women. So...

Chick-fil-a would like to be a big national brand and make billions of dollars. It would also like to openly discriminate against homosexuals and use its profits to fund anti-gay initiatives. Well, you can't have everything. Sometimes you have to pick, and the stress of being forced to pick apparently killed the company's head PR man.