Happy Hour Roundup
* Did a Virginia TV station yank a GOP ad attacking Dems over the climate change bill because it’s false? “Roanoke TV Station Refuses to Air False NRCC Attack on Perriello,” blares a release just out from the DCCC about the ad, which was dubbed “wrong” by a fact-checking outlet for the way it characterizes Dem Rep Tom Perriello’s vote for the bill.
Jeffrey Marks, the general manager of WDBJ in Roanoke, confirmed the ad was no longer running, but refused to confirm it had been pulled over its veracity. “We have not characterized why the commercial is not running,” he told me.
Marks said he was going to call the DCCC to take issue with their release’s claim. That said, Marks did confirm that the station had stopped running the ad after Perriello’s people complained about it.
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* HuffPo’s Sam Stein has the first look at the new ad from Obama’s political operation featuring the health care horror stories of real people:
Obama’s reconstituted political apparatus, Organizing for America, is raising cash off of Obama’s email list to fund these ads, so the real tell will be the size and scope of this campaign, which is as yet unknown.
* Yep, still more waiting. The Obama administration is now seeking to delay the release of the big 2004 CIA torture report that could undercut Dick Cheney until August 31st.
* John Boehner’s office, sensing Obama’s vulnerability over job loss, releases a tongue-in-cheek video featuring a bloodhound hunting high and low for jobs created by the stimulus package.
* Blue Texan says Boehner should send the bloodhound to his own state.
* But Obama did concede today that we’re seeing “too many jobs lost.”
* TPM gets Senator Olympia Snowe’s office to clarify her recent eyebrow-raising suggestion that the public option is bad because it makes health care cheaper.
* The news that Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Iraq is more interesting when you recall that the White House quietly added Iraq to Biden’s portfolio the other day. Looks like he’s going to have a major hands-on role.
* And Markos Moulitsas isn’t letting Harry Reid off the hook over his insistence that we not expect too much from the 60 votes Dems now have in the Senate.
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Hmmmm, didn’t I say putting that dumb@ss claim in the ad was going to come back to haunt the GOOPers? What a bunch of clowns.
Antelope Freeway, one-eighth mile…
Seems that Waxman-Markey has a little provision that allows SSA to dip into general funds just in case the bill results in reduced revenues from FICA and Medicare. Can this mean that the authors are well aware that this is a job loss proposition and they have arranged to cover SSA losses in advance? I think the answer is yes. And how about that hidden entitlement increasing the Earned Income Credit for single taxpayers with no dependents? Some people are finally reading the fine print and the more they read the tougher the sledding will be in the Senate, 60 votes notwithstanding.