Late Late Night FDL: Portland, Oregon
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 19th, 2011 5:47 am by HL
Late Late Night FDL: Portland, Oregon
Loretta Lynn and Jack White — Portland, Oregon.
Loretta Lynn and Jack White — Portland, Oregon.
What’s on your mind?
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Early Morning Swim: FBI Calls Bomb Discovered at Washington MLK Parade “Domestic Terrorism” Reports Rachel Maddow
Probably some left-winger trying to make conservatives look bad.
Probably some left-winger trying to make conservatives look bad.
A “potentially deadly” explosive device that could have caused severe casualties was found along the intended route of a Martin Luther King Day march in Spokane, Wash., half an hour before the event was to begin, the FBI said Tuesday. […]
The device inside “clearly would have had the potential to inflict multiple casualties, injury and death, to humans,” Harrill said in an interview Tuesday. He declined to describe the device. […]
No one has claimed responsibility or offered a motive, Harrill said. But he called the connection with the King Day march “inescapable.”
“We’re treating this as an act of domestic terrorism,” he said.
Why? Probably just some nut.
Save it for Broder
Nobody follows tradition like the Washington Posts and lame obituaries
pic via matthewnstoller at flickr.com
One of the true traditions of the Village is giving the the recently deceased or retiring cocktail party attendees an obsequious sendoff. An “art form” practiced since the Pierce Administration by David Broder. Broder’s columns on Joe McCarthy and Theodore Bilbo likely focused on their mutual love of the then segregated Washington Redskins.
But Broder hasn’t written a column in several weeks and somebody needs to get the hell into the breach and say something nice about Joe Lieberman as he departs for that seven figure FoxNews commenting deal.
Enter Ezra Klein, and whoever writes his headlines:
Joe Lieberman: Democratic hero?
Hey, thanks for the question mark at least.
Contained within the short prose, is the self-evident nature of Lieberman’s regard for no one but himself and his donors:
Among other things, he skipped the meetings where Democrats were trying to work out a compromise on the public option, and then he killed the Medicare buy-in proposal they’d developed — despite endorsing that exact proposal months before. In doing so, he doomed a great piece of policy, and by doing it at the last minute, endangered the rest of the bill, too.
But he ended up voting for the legislation he’d damage severely and made significantly worse for Americans but made better for the Hartford, AETNA, and Magellan. Oh, and he endorsed John McCain and Sarah Palin.
What a guy, what a Democrat.
