Buried in a packed news day, I think one of the telling responses to the president’s DOMA decision was that from Speaker John Boehner. Asked for comment, Boehner spokesman Michael Steel released a statement that could only barely manage to criticize the president’s decision.
* Julian Assange ordered extradited from the U.K. to Sweden to stand trial on sex crime charges.
* Rolling Stone has the buzziest story of the day: “The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in ‘psychological operations’ to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war.”
* The Wisconsin General Assembly reaches a deal to vote on the union right’s bill.
A new Utah poll shows a majority of voters think it’s time to send someone else to Washington to replace Sen. Orrin Hatch (R).
Even for Fox News I’m not sure I’ve even seen or heard a host/interviewer who’s quite so comically unprepared for an interviewer as this clown who’s doing this interviewer at about 10:50 AM on the east coast this morning. I just found out it’s Martha MacCullum.
Late Update: Now we’re on to MSNBC and they’re talking about the obesity epidemic among cats and dogs. Looking like a slow news day for the nets.
I guess when you combine Qaddafi’s history of clownish, bizarre behavior and statements with American paranoia about the omnipresence of al Qaeda it was pretty much inevitable you’d have Qaddafi making his last stand on the claim that the protestors besieging his government are teenagers addled with drugs they were supplied with by al Qaeda.
Huckabee tells Washingtonians that it’s time to slash the safety net for people who work for the government. And since he’s worked so long for the government he was practically broke and had no safety net so he’s got to work for Fox News for a long time to build a safety net.
House Republicans hopes Senate Dem will help restore Amtrak funding he voted to cut.
Libya tells State Department foreign journalists in Libya will be treated as al Qaeda collaborators.
House liberals say Obama should be speaking out more about the union fight across the country.