I just wrote about this below. But I wanted to say a bit more. I think all of us have probably seen that iconic video of Walter Cronkite announcing President Kennedy’s death live on CBS and then struggling, not entirely successfully, to hold back his own tears. It’s incredibly affecting but almost worn into cliche by decades of repetition.
What I’d never seen before was the half hour or so lead in to that moment. I just posted the video here.
It sure seems like it’s getting harder and harder for Mitch McConnell’s campaign to hide its frustration with the tea party.
Some people have serious projection issues: Mary Landrieu’s senate challenger’s campaign tweets image of Landrieu as Mussolini …
Sahil Kapur points out that filibuster reform holds a lot of good news for Obama: He can tilt the balance of the D.C. Circuit Court, pile up potential liberal Supreme Court justices and, ahem, fire whomever he wants.
