Blog: TAPPED

Don LaFontaine was unfortunately unavailable (being dead), so Rick Perry goes all Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay on Mitt Romney without a narrator. In a word…just when you thought it was safe to go into the voting booth…comes a vision more terrifying than Nancy Pelosi regaining the speakership… All that ad needs to take it over the […]

Steve Benen informs us about the Republican reaction to the procedural shenanigans last night in the Senate: McConnell, described as “visibly angry and shaken,” fumed to his colleagues, “We are fundamentally turning the Senate into the House. The minority’s out of business.” A GOP staffer added, “Just wait until they get into the minority!” Benen […]

You may have heard about the little back-and-forth between Senator Scott Brown and his likely general election opponent, Elizabeth Warren. Briefly, at a debate a questioner noted that Brown paid for college in part by posing nude in Cosmopolitan, then asked the Democratic candidates how they paid for college. Warren joked that she kept her […]

Ron Brownstein of the National Journal points out something interesting: Republican members of Congress who got elected in Democratic districts aren’t voting like people whose jobs are tenuous; they’ve voting like, well, like any other Republican, at least on environmental issues: In February, the House voted to block pending EPA regulations limiting emissions of carbon […]

Now that Sarah Palin has finally admitted what some of us understood a long time ago — that she is not going to run for president in 2012 — some liberals are less than entirely relieved. After all, she’s only 47, so she could torment us with a potential presidential candidacy for a couple of […]

You can expect lots and lots of this in months to come. Here’s National Journal‘s Josh Kraushaar, telling Obama not to get all populist. The only evidence he offers is that Obama’s approval is really low right now, in contrast to when he was running for president and had the support of lots of independents. […]

It’s no exaggeration to say that before Steve Jobs and Apple, computers were esoteric machines for researchers and academics. Few people had a chance to interact with them, and their relevance to everyday life was marginal. This changed with the Apple II. Introduced in 1977, it was the first successful mainstream computer, and its follow-up, […]

Kevin Drum thinks they may be misjudging: With a guy like Rick Perry, you never know. The right person whispers in his ear and suddenly he decides that he hates cancer so much that he doesn’t care about conservative principles. Cancer is more important. Do you think Mitt Romney would ever do that? No siree. […]

I don’t think I’m alone in initially dismissing the Wall Street protesters as the same ill-informed, ideologues who protested the WTO and the imprisonment of Mumia in one pointless breath throughout the late ’90s and early aughts. It was hard for me to take seriously the political sentiments of the mostly privileged college kids who […]

As Dahlia Lithwick and Adam Liptak note, yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that caused even John Roberts and Samuel Alito to question a state’s behavior in a death-penalty case. Cory Maples, who was convicted of murder in Alabama, had the appeal of his death sentence denied because of a missed […]