“The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skills can persuade it to do otherwise.” —Mark Twain
Cornyn blames Dems for GOP’s successful filibuster of Goodwin Liu.
Newt to Limbaugh: Hey, you know all that trouble I got myself in for calling the Paul Ryan’s budget “right-wing engineering”? Funny thing is I wasn’t even referring to Paul Ryan!
Limbaugh to Newt: “Well then what did you apologize to him about?”
John Lithgow gives a dramatic reading of Newt Gingrich’s epic poem of a press release on Colbert’s show. Greatest thing ever: Watch.
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA): When I said last week that I was going to vote for the House GOP’s plan to abolish Medicare what I really meant was I was going to vote on it — and I have no idea yet which way I’m going to vote.
For years the top generals in the IDF have agreed that Israel can handle withdrawing to the 1967 borders in military terms. But PM Netanyahu says that’s impossible because those borders are not defensible. It’s an amazing level of denial, intransigence and self-destructiveness on display today — something the pre-statehood and early statehood Zionist leadership was seldom so vulnerable to. Read More
The special election for New York’s 26th district is this Tuesday. And the latest poll has Democrat Kathy Hochul taking a lead over Republican Jane Corwin by 4 points among likely voters.
Hochul 42%, Corwin 38%, Davis 9%, Murphy 1%.
Key point. Hochul has jumped 11 points since the last poll, pretty much all from Davis. So the Tea Party candidate is faltering and his support is swinging overwhelmingly to Hochul.
Another one out. Last night Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) announced he will not be running for president in 2012. Daniels official statement after the jump … Read More
Sticks to commitment to policies that will secure Israel’s future, even at the expense of opportunistic attacks and political controversy.
Obliquely and with respect to his audience, in his speech to AIPAC today, President Obama also responded to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s repeated lies about what President Obama said only the day before.
Just as no man is an island, no country can be either. On its present course Israel is on its way to becoming a pariah state, a status in which it cannot indefinitely or even perhaps long survive. Neither the fact that Israel faces a profound cultural animosity among the region’s Arab populations nor the bad faith that often greets its actions nor even the anti-Semitism that is sometimes beneath the animus changes this essential fact. The make-up of the 21st century world is simply not compatible with a perpetual military occupation of another people, especially one that crosses a boundary of ethnicity and religion. Only the willfully oblivious can’t see that. Read More