Former South Carolina Gov. Sanford wins election to 1st district House seat
Former Gov. Mark #Sanford will fill the vacant U.S. House seat in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, CNN projects.
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk)JUST IN: Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wins hotly contest U.S. House seat - AP
— NBC News (@NBCNews)Former Governor Mark Sanford is being projected as winner of the race for South Carolina’s first district House seat, defeating his Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Colbert Busch. Sanford, 52, was dogged by his infamous abandonment of his post as Governor in June of 2009, when he vanished to Argentina to engage in an extramarital affair. He ran on a very overt platform of redemption and asking forgiveness, however, and SC-1’s largely conservative voters seem to have been in a forgiving mood — Sanford is back from the Appalachian Trail, and he’s headed to the United States House.
Holy fuck.
But does that mean that employees in other countries get paid more or that CEOs in other countries get paid less?
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#OccupyWallStreet: “This is what democracy looks like.”
[Via the DemocracyNow! Twitter feed]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsm5noEn3N1qchhhqo1_500.jpg)
Anthropology teacher suddenly brings up “young people’s” distrust in election process/democracy
MUST. NOT. GET. ON. SOAP BOX.
Groan. But also LOL. (I am not on Gandalf’s side on this one though.)
DAMMIT GANDALF
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DC Decoder: What Decoder learned at the Tea Party Debate tonight
- Mitt Romney shouldn’t try to pretend he plays poker
- Michele Bachmann thinks fixing the economy would be a snap
- Ron Paul
hatesstrongly dislikes Rick Perry
- Tea Partiers hate Ben Bernanke, and so does Rick Perry
- Rick Perry hates little girls; all other candidates love little girls,…
We’d like to add “Some people really love the idea of poor sick people dying” to this list.
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“Every pillar of the Taliban regime will be destroyed.” So said a message to the Taliban leader Mullah Omar from the United States in October of 2001. This message, along with a veritable treasure trove of previously classified documents from late 2001, have just been released and posted by the National Security Archive. They involve a great deal of information on the initial US strategic response in Afghanistan and the early planning and development of the War on Terror.
Start looking through the documents here. GWU has taken the time to give some highlights from these documents, including a detailed timeline of Cheney’s post-9/11 whereabouts, and an NSC strategic plan outlining the desire to take down al Qaeda and the Taliban without commiting to “any post-Taliban military involvement.” (Because all that nation-building could get tricky and entangling, no?)
Follow Up of the Day: Rep. Anthony Weiner appeared before the press this afternoon after a short delay co-opted by none-other-than Andrew Breitbart to tearfully confess a series of “inappropriate communications” with six women he met online. He stressed that his relationship with these women had no physical component whatsoever, but refused to elaborate on the exact nature of the exchanges.
Weiner further admitted that the now-infamous underwear pic was in fact tweeted by him, and the hacking fabrication his used to cover it up was meant to protect his loved ones.
Calling his behavior “a destructive thing,” Weiner offered the media no clear-cut explanation for his actions, but said he knew what he was doing was a mistake. The congressman said he has no intention of resigning his post, believing he did not violate any law nor break the oath to his constituents.
Asked about how his marriage would fair in light of his admission, Weiner said he loves his wife “very much” and they two “have no intention of splitting up over this.” He later added that his wife had knowledge concerning some of these relationships “since before we were married.”
Meanwhile, ABC News posted an interview it conducted with Meagan Broussard, a 26-year-old woman who claims to have been one of the women with whom Rep. Weiner engaged in “a sexually-charged electronic relationship.”
FUUUUUUUUCK
GDI TONY
I HATE YOU
YOU DISAPPOINT ME FOREVER
