I sit at my desk every morning listening to the sounds of cable television in the air. Now a lot of it is about Libya. And I’m just blown away by the constant, almost unanimous chorus in favor of some sort of active, military involvement in the country. At this moment, I’m listening to some person say that it just doesn’t make sense — that it’s inconsistent — for the President to announce that it is our national policy that Qaddafi should leave and yet not take military steps to make that happen. I’ve also heard numerous voices arguing that we ‘didn’t act’ in the Balkans and then didn’t act in Rwanda and that we should not make the same mistake today.
This is a wildly different standard for military action than we’ve ever heard before, even in an era where our interventions have become much more frequent and when they’ve often been wise and necessary.
It signals no disrespect or lack of concern for the bravery of rebels and loss of life in Libya today to say that there’s no evidence whatsoever that there is anything happening in Libya right now that is remotely comparable to what happened in the Balkans or Rwanda in the 1990s. Read More
Rep. Keith Ellison’s emotional telling of the story of a Muslim 9/11 first responder during today’s hearing on Muslim radicalization. Watch.
Gov. Walker spoke a few moments ago saying: We took the anti-union measures we said were fiscal and passed them through procedures only allowed for non-fiscal measures and basically and that’s just going to be how it is.
We’ve learned more about the guy arrested yesterday in Washington state for the attempted MLK Day bombing in Spokane, including what appear to be his virulently racist online postings.
Rep. Lungren: Why is everybody so flipped about Muslims investigation. No one complained about scope of hearings on Neo-Nazis or the KKK. Watch.
6 in 10 Americans view Sarah Palin unfavorably.
But don’t count out the 28% who view her favorably.
Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX): Without government subsidies, Exxon will go out of business.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY): I have less choice in toilets than women have in abortions.
Rep. Cravaack (R) at Muslims hearings: Hypothetically, let’s say CAIR is a terrorist organization.