“Tyrant-for-Life” Mubarak is hard on the press…but not as hard as the Bush Administration who went out for blood.

Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian

Seems like at least one of Boehner’s Majority Makers has achieved that rare display of bipartisanship the President gets so excited about: both GOPs and Dems think David Rivera needs to scram.

This is an important step in the repeal of Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell: a video from the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, General James F Amos, alongside the Sergeant-Major of the USMC, Carlton W Kent, in which they describe the process to Marines as DADT Repeal is implemented throughout the Corps.

A few months ago, I offered my services — only half facetiously — to British Petroleum as CEO after I had read about and watched bits of Tony Hayward’s testimony before Congress. He’d acted like the Sergeant Schultz character (I know nothing, nothing!) on the old sitcom Hogan’s Heroes; I figured I could do at least as good a job as Hayward for a lot less money. Win-win all the way around for everyone!

While in Tahrir Square protesters are organizing a mass march for Tuesday, Obama was calling Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the UK. Egyptian opposition leaders have formed a committee to negotiate the departure of Mubarak.

Twenty-five protesters were arrested in Rancho Mirage, California today, at a protest in front of the Rancho Las Palmas resort, site of the “Billionaire’s Caucus,” an annual meeting put on by the Koch Brothers and other corporate entities and conservative movement operators.

You gotta wonder whether the US would take some comfort in having the guy we outsourced torture to running Egypt.

Midway through his presidency, when Bob Woodward about how history would judge the War in Iraq, George W. Bush responded: “History. We don’t know. We’ll all be dead.” Instead, in a 2006 essay in Rolling Stone, the prominent historian Sean Wilentz argued that a substantial majority of U.S. historians already considered the Bush administration to be a “failure” (81% in a poll conducted by the History News Network). Wilentz predicted that Bush would “be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.”

Charles and David Koch are holding something called the “Billionaire’s Caucus” in Rancho Mirage this weekend, one of their periodic meetings with the rich and powerful of the conservative movement (House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is attending this one) to plot strategy for the coming year.