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Stormy Monday, 8/18/14

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StormyMondayAt the behest of Attorney General Eric Holder, the body of Michael Brown will be autopsied for a third time this week as federal and state investigations into his fatal shooting by police officer Darren Wilson continue. Tensions between protestors and police in Ferguson, Missouri showed little sign of abating over the weekend, despite Governor Nixon’s declaration of a state of emergency and imposition of a curfew.

The President is still in Washington for a previously announced interruption in his Martha’s Vineyard vacation with the family. The White House announced Sunday that he will receive a briefing from the Attorney General on the situation in Ferguson, and another from the National Security Council on Iraq. He’s scheduled to return to the Vineyard on Tuesday, barring the undeniable possibility that someone somewhere will do what the President would probably describe as “stupid shit.”

Rick Perry will be busy this week insisting to every friend and family member, fellow Texas Republican, probing reporter, and/or pizza delivery guy he encounters that he’s innocent of any wrongdoing despite last week’s grand jury indictment on two felony counts. In a hilarious appearance on Fox News Sunday, Perry claimed:

This is not the way we settle political differences in this country. You don’t do it with indictments. We settle our political differences at the ballot box.

Which I guess explains his vigorous efforts in 2011 to disenfranchise minority and low-income voters, who favor Democrats, with a draconian voter ID law that, like Rick Perry, will soon be the subject of a court case.

In more than one sense of the term, Amanda Curtis hits the ground running this week as she begins an 11th-hour campaign to hold a Democratic Senate seat after incumbent John Walsh plagiarized himself out of the contest. Montana Democrats chose her over the weekend to replace Walsh, who was himself tapped to replace the mercifully retired Max Baucus. Curtis teaches high school math by day, and hasn’t yet secured a leave of absence from her school board for what virtually all observers consider to be a doomed campaign against Republican Steve Daines.

Rick Santorum is in Israel for three days as the head of a “solidarity delegation” sponsored by his Patriot Voices PAC, whose website claims the delegation is intended to show support for Israel’s “courageous people and leaders,” who are “engaged in a fight for their lives and freedom against the twin evils of Radical Islam and Repugnant Anti-Semitism,” to affirm the US/Israeli alliance, and to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem and all who live in the Middle East.” In other words, it’s a risible attempt by Santorum to keep his name in the news while the Republican base swoons over Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, and if the junket helps hasten the End Times, well, bonus, I guess. Santorum is accompanied by a gaggle of rightwing jerks, including Bob Vander Plaats, whose Family Leader organization tried to coerce the 2012 Republican presidential candidates to sign its Marriage Vow, a document which claimed being gay is a choice, and – before being scrubbed – that African Americans born now have a lower chance of being raised by both parents than did the children of slaves.

Alaska Republicans hold their Senate primary on Tuesday, pitting sitting Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell against Department of Natural Resources Director Dan Sullivan and soon-to-be-has-been Joe Miller, a fading candidate who garnered an endorsement from has-been-who-won’t-go-away Sarah Palin over the weekend. Palin endorsed Miller in the 2010 primary when he bested Lisa Murkowski, who went on to beat him as a write-in candidate in the general.

Barring Supreme Court interference, marriage equality will become a reality in Virginia at 8:00 AM Thursday. Following a 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, August 20 is the first date on which same-sex couples can wed or have an out-of-state marriage officially recognized. Throw in the continuing possibility of a guilty verdict in the trial of former Virginia First Couple Bob and Maureen McDonnell and the Old Dominion starts to look downright just. The prosecution rested in the McDonnell trial last Thursday; defense witnesses begin testimony tomorrow.


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