Bradley Manning’s friend David House was initially quite concerned about Manning’s state of mind, and felt he was beginning to exhibit some of the damaging symptoms of prolonged isolation including emotional withdrawal and impaired cognitive function. Bradley seemed slow to respond when they spoke, and could not process information as quickly as he normally did. Bradley became excited and engaged, however, when David mentioned the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

Is there a catfight brewing in the Tea Party?

It just gets worse and worse and worse for Harold Ford, prospective senatorial candidate for the state of New York.

The Harold Ford Gaffe-tacular Bus just keeps on rolling.

Harold Ford clearly has read George Orwell’s 1984, but I’m not sure he understood that “Newspeak” is not something to which a reality-based politician should aspire. But when Harold Ford uses the day set aside to commemorate a man dedicated to non-violence to speak glowingly of taking electrical cords to our national backside, there’s something very, very wrong going on.

Today was a busy day in the New York Senate race even if you didn’t talk about Kirsten Gillibrand and Harold Ford. Left-wing Democratic candidate Jonathan Tasini launched a campaign to end the filibuster, and both of the top Republican recruits for the race – Rep. Peter King and former Rep. Susan Molinari – dropped out of consideration for the race.

With Gillibrand and Ford included, the day was, in a word, hectic. It started early, with Harold Ford dropping a bombshell – he now supports same-sex marriage.

Harold Ford wants the people of New York to know that he’s just like Sarah Palin: a commonsense lone wolf who will not toe the party line. Also, a grifter.

In case you haven’t noticed, it looks like there are three women lining up to run for New York’s senate seat. Oh yeah, and some guy might be thinking about it.

Harold Ford really does look like he’s going to take a run at New York’s US Senate seat currently held by Kirsten Gillibrand. He’s staffed up with a spokesman and a pollster, as well as Rod Blagojevich’s old campaign manager (!). And the spokesman is already running with an angry statement:

Harold is not going to be bullied or intimidated. It’s good for New York to have a dialogue. It’s good to have credible candidates exploring this race. So what are they so afraid of?

Amidst all those retirements yesterday, the New York Times floated that a Democrat would get into a race – former Tennessee Rep. and chair of the DLC Harold Ford, being tapped by a bunch of Wall Streeters to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand in New York.

Here’s who is named as supporting Ford, according to the article:

• Uber-rich financier Steven Rattner;
• Merryl H. Tisch, the wife of Loews Corporation CEO James Tisch;
• Richard Plepler, the co-President of HBO;
• Michael Bloomberg, the independent mayor of New York.

Really sounds like the heart of the liberal grassroots, doesn’t it?