Not his metaphorical muscle. His actual muscles. In an arm-wrestling match, “he put me down in a millisecond,” says Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), “He just – muscles were just unbelievable.”
It had to happen eventually. Today was Gretchen Carlson’s last day as a host of Fox & Friends. Check out some highlights from her curvy couch sendoff:
A good look at what the effort to sabotage Obamacare looks like down in the trenches.
So a paradoxical dynamic now in the ‘Defund Obamacare’ alternative universe. House leaders are struggling to find a way to make the issue go away. But the Tea Party senators – who of course don’t need to worry about running anything – are taking a hard line and really making life hell for the leadership in the House.
If you’re seeing this post, we’re currently having episodic site slowness and downtime tied to problems at AWS (Amazon Web Services), where a huge number of websites are now hosted. It seems to be improving and we hope to be back to normal shortly.
Bloomberg’s gun control groups says they’re not backing off after this week’s drubbing in Colorado. They say they’re eyeing battles in five more states around the country.
After my post on this yesterday we now have dozens of moving, fascinating, in a few cases infuriating emails about remembering 9/11. I’m not sure quite how many to publish; I’ve reprinted about half a dozen so far below. It’s just a bromide to say everyone experiences the anniversary differently. But the patterns are different and worth understanding. Read More
Three year old accidentally shoots two year old in South Carolina.
On “What’s Your 9/11?”, TPM Reader DE thinks many of us, across the political spectrum, can’t escape the unresolved politicization of what happened twelve years ago …
I suspect that your question about 9/11 is basically unanswerable, because it gets to the issue of why we have memorials at all, which is itself an unanswerable question. We obviously don’t observe memorials for the dead themselves– they are gone and don’t care what we do. So we must do them for ourselves, out of some belief that we will either feel better or benefit from remembering the dead. Think about, for instance, what Lincoln did in the Gettysburg Address– remembering the dead so that we remember how important the cause was that they died for, and so that we remind ourselves that we should be willing to put our lives on the line for that same cause.