Sounds like Joe Lieberman is set to announce tomorrow that he’s retiring from Congress.
The FBI says an “incendiary device” was found along the route of a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Washington. The device was “likely capable of inflicting multiple casualities.”
Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) tells TPM that the hearings on the purported radicalization of Muslim Americans being called by Rep. Peter King (R-NY), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, go “way beyond what is called for.”
Harry Reid awkwardly kicks off the Chinese state visit to Washington by calling President Hu a “dictator.”
Michael Steele says he knows “exactly how Caesar felt” after his former deputy and now successor’s betrayal.
TPM Reader BW has had it:
I think I finally have to take TPM off my bookmark bar. You have been one of my favorite websites for years and I especially enjoy Josh Marshall’s commentaries. But I can’t open your page one more time and be confronted with a huge headline … and photo of Sarah Palin. It’s enough. There is no news there.
I am so sorry to leave you. I have really enjoyed our time together, but I am tired of being ignored … and I can’t read about her anymore.
A powerful epitaph for federal Judge John Roll, the judge killed in the Tucson shooting. He was apparently guarding one of Giffords’ aides with his body when he received the fatal shot in the back.
The health care repeal vote this evening in the House is mostly just symbolic. The main event will come later this year during the budget process when the GOP tries to defund health care reform.
Erstwhile presidential candidate and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), on Obama’s support for abortion rights: “I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, ‘We’re going to decide who are people and who are not people.'”
When my colleague David published the letter from TPM Reader BW taking us to task for our coverage of Sarah Palin I knew he was poking a hornet’s nest. And your emails confirmed my assumption. I thought David put it pretty much right in his response. But I thought I should weigh in as well on this point. Read More