Thanks to the Washington Post, we can read select tweets from Capitol Hill. I did. The tweets are almost all superficial and self-serving. Maybe the same could be said of most members of Congress.
Thanks to WHYY and "Radio Times" for a truly down-to-earth, lucid discussion about the economy. Yes, we need more stimulus. Yes, the health care bill was ill-timed. Yes, Obama has some (but not all) bad advisers -- Rahm Emanuel named. Yes, we're in a mess. And one surprise: the apparent passivity of even those who are hardest hit by the economy. No protests. No political activism. Most troubling: very little connection with others in the same boat. Not a gloomy discussion, in spite of all that.
Thanks to Acorn for going after Congress on a sloppy and discriminatory resolution. Acorn could be the devil himself and I'd still want them to win this one. Suspending the Constitution has become a really bad habit.
Thanks to Sy Hersh for slicing open the matter of Ambassador Eikenberry's leaked memos during the first few minutes of a "Fresh Air" interview today.
