Reuters breaks news that the Obama administration has secretly ordered the arming of Libyan rebels. Needless to say, this opens up a whole can of worms.
In an effort to show their trying to avoid a government shutdown, House Republicans introduce the Government Shutdown Prevention Act. Of course, these are Republicans, so bill titles always mean the opposite of what they say.
Republicans are all about local control, so it only stands to reason that a congress critter from Ohio gets to run the DC school district.
Wisconsin Rep and former reality TV star Sean Duffy's complaint about low congressional pay prompts the GOP to try to erase the statement from history. Luckily, they failed. Sean Duffy will forever be remembered as the guy who couldn't make it on $174,000 a year.
Just because he's a private citizen now doesn't mean that former Senator Russ Feingold is going away.
More fun with local control: NJ Republican Rep. Chris Smith takes a trip to end all abortion in Kenya -- even in the case of a threat to the life of the mother -- because that's a super-important thing for America, I guess. It'd be business as usual for a photo-op-seeking GOPer trying to shore up his anti-choice street cred, except he went there on the taxpayers' dime. Way to cut that deficit, GOP.
Finally, Tennessee moves to all but outlaw science in the classroom. Welcome to the 19th century!
