“According to Bachmann’s latest campaign finance filings, her campaign spent nearly $4,700 on hair and makeup in the weeks after she entered the presidential race on June 13.” [Mother Jones]

[ThinkProgress]

“Rep. David Wu announced his resignation from Congress today, moments after U.S. senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden called for his resignation. The Democrat said in a statement that he would leave office after Congress resolves the debt ceiling crisis.” [Oregonian]

“Yes, many want government to start living within its means. And many are fed up with a system in which the deck seems stacked against middle-class Americans in favor of the wealthiest few. But do you know what people are fed up with most of all?”
—Barack Obama, Monday night

• Craven Democrats
• Centrists being mistaken for Progressives
• Triangulation being mistaken for Principle

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Today on his radio show, Glenn Beck described the Norwegian summer camp where more than 80 kids were senselessly slaughtered as a “Hitler Youth” camp that is “indoctrinating” children with a liberal world view.

The Sturmabteilung outfit really brings out the eyes, asswipe.

[Mediate]

The Preznit of These United States will be speaking to Our Exceptional Indebted Nation at 9 p.m. ET, in order to explain the necessary Austerity Measures that will only affect the Already Austere. If you’d like to see how millionaires speak to peasants, tune in.

“A man suffered life-threatening burns Monday after a portable toilet he was using exploded, apparently after he lit a cigarette.” [Raw Story]