Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel (R), the recently announced primary challenger for Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-Miss) Senate seat, spoke at a neo-Confederate conference in Laurel, Mississippi in August.
We find out this morning from Mother Jones that the Tea Party challenger to Sen. Thad Cochran (Pretty Damned Conservative-MS) attended a pro-Confederate, pro-Secessionist event recently. For the Mississippi GOP this isn't as unusual as it might sound. What got my attention though is that he's being supported by the Senate Conservatives Fund and the Club for Growth. The former of course is the spawn of now-Heritage Foundation sachem and former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint. The picture comes very into focus. Calhounite, neo-Confederate, revanchist.
I think most places if you get found out running a highly trafficked anonymous Twitter account crapping on your colleagues and bosses, you're probably looking for a new job. But Jofi Joseph, the National Security Council staff just canned for that reason, well ... a lot of the tweets are just A-holish in their own right, let alone his place of employment. Here's a list of some of the 'best'.
TPM Reader JS checks in from North Carolina and sees a big change ...
I have tried to sign on everyday since October to see if I could see my wife up (we have health insurance, but I was curious about the options, and wanted to see if the website worked). Every day for nearly three weeks, I couldn't sign up. Slowly, I would get further along, I could get more information about the plans, I would get further into registration before finding myself in some frustrating loop.
Republicans are filled with an unchained glee by the missteps and bumbles of the Obamacare website roll-out. Meanwhile, people who support the law and care about people getting coverage not only lament the debacle in human terms but also see a chance to show how government can concretely deliver benefits for people's lives being squandered for trivial reasons. And yet, if you look at the polls, through this process, support for the law has either held steady or even bumped up while all of this has been happening. It's too early to say how this is affecting public perceptions of the law. But even the short-term repercussions may not be what we'd imagine.
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Member of Congress has unsecured AR-15 assault rifle stolen from her unlocked garage.
Last we heard of one-time tech pioneer John McAfee he was living out some sort modern day Heart of Darkness fantasy in Belize and suspected in the murder of a neighbor before becoming an international fugitive and doing all sorts of other awesome stuff. Now House Republicans want him to get to the bottom of what happened with the Obamacare rollout.
Anti-Cuccinelli ad campaign tells young voters Cuccinelli 'Wants To Make Oral Sex A Felony."
Following up on TPM Reader ST's note about integrating multiple government legacy data systems, TPM Reader DS says the real issue might be slightly different ...
Hi Josh, I've been following your coverage of Healthcare.gov-gate and think that reader ST is close to nailing the problem, but I think it's bigger than just aging government infrastructure. I've been in the IT industry for over 10 years working at different state-regulated enterprises and I'm not so sure that the internal communication between aging governmental infrastructures are as big a problem as the interfacing that gets done with the external insurance companies.
From Readers who've had all the problems you've heard about with Healthcare.gov ...
