t appears that there are indeed more shoes ready to drop in the Arnold Schwarzenegger sex scandal saga. The National Enquirer is reporting that, as governor, Schwarzenegger used his California Highway Patrol security detail to coordinate his assignations with young women in a Sacramento hotel, according to the MailOnline in London:
Arnold Schwarzenegger used state-funded security [...]

Part of the series, Assault on Florida.
Who ordered Sumter County, Fla., deputies to prevent Democrats from attending GOP Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s budget-signing event in the public square at The Villages, a retirement community, on May 26?
And why did the deputies wade into the crowd assembled at the square and confiscate what a Miami [...]

Look, I don’t think this is complicated. He doesn’t really have a history. I say all of this respectfully — he is the least well-known guy we have ever put in the presidency, and there’s no one even close. He’s probably got easily the lightest résumé of anybody we’ve elected.

Why was he elected? Again, it comes back to who he was. He was black, he was historic. And there’s nothing racist about this. It is what it is. If he had been a dynamic, white, state senator elected to Congress he wouldn’t have gotten in the game this fast. This is what made him different. That, combined with the fact that [the media] was just absolutely compliant. They made up their minds early that they were in love with him. They were in love with him because they thought he was a good liberal guy and they were in love with him because he pushed that magical button: a black man who was articulate, liberal, the whole white guilt, all of that.

- Rep. Joe Walsh, GOPT-Ill., speaking candidly with Dave Weigel, who says of Walsh, “he’ll say anything, and stand by it. In the ongoing contest to become the Tea Party’s ID, he’s in the lead.”

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Rachel Maddow started her MSNBC show last night with a pull quote from this article in The Hill newspaper — “Oh my God, it’s coming”:

I worship the ground the Paul Ryan walks on. I hope he doesn’t run for president because that would ruin a good man who has a lot of work to do.

— Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who doesn’t want Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to run for president, Politico reports.

One of the least remarked upon aspects of the Obama presidency has been the lack of scandals. Since Watergate, presidential and executive branch scandal has been an inescapable feature of the American presidency, but the current administration has not yet suffered a major scandal, which I define as a widespread elite perception of wrongdoing. What happened, and what are the odds that the administration’s streak will continue?

— Brendan Nyhan, whose research on presidential scandals finds the longest that a president has gone without having a scandal featured in a front-page Washington Post article is 34 months.

You know, I’m 70 years old. And I can tell you — people don’t like to deal with it, but the fact of the matter is — the president’s problems are in large measure because of the color of his skin.

— Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), blaming most of President Obama’s political problems on racism, the Columbia State reports. In particular, Clyburn suggested the “birther” movement is fueled by racism: “I don’t know why anybody didn’t ask for John McCain’s (birth certificate). He wasn’t even born in this country.”

45%

Of Republican voters have an unfavorable opinion of Newt Gingrich now, while just 38% have a favorable one, according to a new Public Policy Polling survey, which notes Gingrich “has completely tanked with Republican voters, providing real confirmation that his campaign rollout has been a total disaster.”

53%

Of Americans would choose to have a one-on-one lunch chat with President Obama over any of the Republican presidential contenders, according to a new Sachs/Mason Dixon poll. Sarah Palin placed a distant second, with 16%.

If there is a bipartisan consensus about anything in this divided country these days, it’s that the Westboro Baptist Church protests at military funerals are an affront to decency.
Across the spectrum — supporters of the military, gay rights activists, Democrats, Republicans, independents and the apolitical — everyone agrees that the Westboro’s Pastor Fred Phelps and [...]