In case you didn’t have a chance to see it yesterday, our video ninja Mike Lester took that 90 minute CNN roller coaster clown show about the Boston bombing suspect being identified, caught and arrested and boiled it down to just over 2 minutes of jaw-dropping video awesome. Take a look.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA): “I expected this from Democrats who have long understood their brand of more taxes, more borrowing, and more government giveaways, and know how to sell it. It is the Republicans who should know better. Republicans who support this bill have effectively said to Americans, ‘we are prepared to sacrifice the Rule of Law on the altar of misguided and erroneous political expediency’.”
TPM Reader JB checks in from Boston on guns …
It has been somber around here as you could expect and everyone remains jumpy (a part of my hospital was evacuated yesterday because of a smoking car in drop off area), so I was less angry at the gun safety legislation loss than disappointed. It just seems a pattern of late. That said, I am cautiously encouraged by what happened.
