In Passing

In passing

here's  everything you need to know at the water cooler

“ Krugman- He Wasn’t The One We’ve Been Waiting For Libs eating their dead Matthews, Dean Call Each Other Crazy Dean was floating the absurd argument that by choosing Scott Brown over Martha Coakley, voters were sending a secret coded message that they really wanted a health care bill . . . more liberal than the current Obamacare version.  In case you missed it: Terrorists are out to get us I’ve been tracking attempted terrorists attacks on the United States after 9/11... because it seemed no one else was. [via Cheryl Jones tweet] Earmarks for Donations in No. Va.   Before new-speak, Rep Jim Moran would be called the bribee Aside: check out  his Wikipedia entry for a look at Moran’s fisticuffical tendencies. System Failure There is one reason that White House should be thrilled about the Massachusetts Senate race. It crowded out news that came out of the stunning testimony of Obama administration officials Wednesday on the Christmas Day terrorist attack. [more ... Who Made the Decision on Abdulmutallab?] FPI Analysis: President Obama's Foreign Policy, Year One During Obama’s first year in the White House, the President has repeatedly sought to strike out on a new, more humble course for American foreign policy. But, aside from that Mike ... You crazy sons-of-bitches, you right-wingers. Do you not understand that the people you hold up as heroes bombed your goddamn country? Do you not understand that Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly are as complicit of the September 11, 2001 terror attack as any one of those dumb-ass fifteen who came from Saudi Arabia? Don’t you get that? The Fall of the House of Kennedy In 1962, President John F. Kennedy planted the seeds that grew the modern Democratic Party. That year, JFK signed executive order 10988 allowing the unionization of the federal work force. This changed everything in the American political system. (Audio version) I know you hate my guts, but marry me, and you'll learn to put up with me David Axelrod told the Washington Post that the health care bill has been such a drag that the only thing the party can do is to pass it and then hope it becomes more popular: Huntley man accused of illegally recording ex-girlfriend in the shower Talk about criminalizing a whole society.   Right?  Not me, of course. ”