Good Morning.

Today is our 4,146th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,177
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,080

We find this morning's cost of war passing through:

$ 1, 422, 633, 567, 500. 00
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98 comments (Latest Comment: 02/13/2013 02:57:37 by TriSec)

Dr. Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist, highly paid expert witness, New York Times best-selling author of fiction and nonfiction, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Tufts Medical School, avid homophobe, and loud mouth FOX news television personality recently brought joy to my heart when he said he would run to replace John Kerry as MA next Senator.

Sadly he revealed yesterday that he is no longer interested in the job; I'm sure he's much too busy fighting all the gayness that plagues our country not to mention his concern for our VP's alcoholism and/or dementia. So the fine citizens of MA will not benefit from his service.
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3 comments (Latest Comment: 02/10/2013 21:17:54 by Will in Chicago)

A storm is brewing. No, I'm not talking about "Nemo" which is about to slam New England. I am talking about within Republican party politics - specifically, the power grabs amid the various factions: The Tea Party, the Establishment, and the Outside Interests (represented by Karl Rove). Initially embraced for their energy, the Tea Party has shown itself to be incapable of fielding candidates that can win anything bigger than House races. The Establishment is seeing its power usurped by the upstarts, as well as being pushed out of incumbencies, and trying to reassert itself. And Big Money just wants control of everything without having to dirty their hands by actually running for office.
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89 comments (Latest Comment: 02/08/2013 23:12:30 by Mondobubba)

After the Democrats took the House in 2006 in a response to Republican corruption and the Bush Administration's mishandling of, well - everything, the Republicans should have taken notice. After the Democrats took the Senate and the White House in 2008, the Republicans should have taken notice. Instead, they decided the best defense was a good offense and approximately 1.3 milliseconds after President Obama took office, the Tea Party was born, along with their outrage over the debt, budget deficits, and uncontrolled spending that President Obama had not yet had any part of.

The Tea Party had the advantage of skilled messengers (Luntz, Rove, Norquist, Armey) and a media outlet to deliver that message 24x7 (FOX "News"). They were relentless, and it paid off. The 2010 mid-term elections saw the Republicans retake the House and narrow the gap in the Senate, despite some Tea Party candidate losses that should have been easy wins for a Republican senatorial candidate.
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71 comments (Latest Comment: 02/07/2013 03:08:22 by clintster)

Back in 2009, we were witness to the birth of the Tea Party Movement. Let's review it's early beginnings.
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72 comments (Latest Comment: 02/05/2013 00:43:42 by livingonli)