It sure seems like it’s getting harder and harder for Mitch McConnell’s campaign to hide its frustration with the tea party.
I just wrote about this below. But I wanted to say a bit more. I think all of us have probably seen that iconic video of Walter Cronkite announcing President Kennedy’s death live on CBS and then struggling, not entirely successfully, to hold back his own tears. It’s incredibly affecting but almost worn into cliche by decades of repetition.
What I’d never seen before was the half hour or so lead in to that moment. I just posted the video here.
An essay in a Harvard student-run journal of Christian thought that claims Jews suffered because they “killed Jesus” is taken down for “further editing.”
Late last week Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) made a big show of trying but failing to sign up for Obamacare because of the notoriously buggy website. (Actually he appears to have been using the DC exchange site.) He even did a special tweet noting his hopeless situation. Not terribly surprising given the frustrating experiences so many have had.
Actually, it turns out he had successfully enrolled and got a call confirming that about an hour after his tweet. But it gets better.
Really excited to have my old friend Ed Kilgore in our pages here at TPM. Don’t miss this piece. “It’s the Fundamentals, Stupid: Elections Aren’t Determined By Short-Term ‘Game Changes’“
Sen. Cruz (R-TX) says that killing the filibuster (and that’s really what it is) “will poison the atmosphere of the Senate.”
All the snark aside (and this deserves plenty of snark), I think this does point to the bad position Senate Republicans put themselves in – namely, that it is just not really credible that any more poisoning is possible in the Senate. And no person captures that more clearly than Sen. Cruz.
Tom Daschle was supposed to be the Secretary of HHS under President Obama. That means he was supposed to manage the roll out of Health Care Reform. We asked him what he thinks of the last 8 weeks.
ICYMI: Can Sarah Silverman be as vulgar and (sometimes) gross as male comedians? Read Shannon Kelley’s emphatic “yes”.
I’m almost 45. So I’ve been watching Kennedy Assassination commemorations my whole life. 50th is a big anniversary – certainly the last big symbolic number when any of the players in the drama will still be alive. But this one was entirely different and unique for me in a way I did not at all expect and in a way that was not entirely tied to the significance of the 50th anniversary milestone itself.