Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Moammar Gadhafi, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Sen. Kit Bond, Former President Bill Clinton, Gov. David Paterson, Sen. Jon Kyl, Sen. Jim Webb, Rep. Michael Turner, Senate Historian Emeritus Richard Baker.

Screwball Squirrel starring Screwball Squirrel and Meathead. This MGM cartoon was released on April 1, 1944. 

What’s on your mind?

Ah, Chuck Norris, you lovable halfwit swine!

Apparently the GOPs aren’t playing nice with Dianne Feinstein’s Senate Intelligence Committee investigation. They’ve taken their toys and gone home. But there’s a step she should take.

Live Pulse has a letter from the US Chamber of Commerce attacking four amendments that have yet to be voted on in the Senate Finance Committee. (Rockefeller C1 – Applying new rating rules to the large and self-insured (ERISA) market, Schumer C1/C2 – Public Option Amendments, Wyden C1 – Healthy Americans Act)

I knew it would come to this.

As we’ve been discussing the threads, Law and Order last night took on torture and, specifically, the role of John Yoo and others in justifying torture. I’m particularly interested in the way they left the episode unresolved–just as we are now on torture.

Nomi has done us a great service in reviewing how we got here and where we went wrong. Each morning’s headlines are full of reverberations and aftershocks of the crisis. Each evening we get promises of change and hear a growing chorus of assurance that the worst is behind us. All of this makes It Takes a Pillage an essential guide to understanding how the financial-political-economic system works in today’s America and beyond. Sadly, pillage, scandal and misinformation make up much of the core of our recent financial history.

Last night Anderson Cooper asked Bill Clinton, “Do you now believe that gay people should have full rights to civil marriage nationwide?”

And Clinton responded, “I do.”

the great right-wing stabbed-in-the-back metaphor