Wednesday Stuff

Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews (who has been kicking butt lately, for anyone who’s noticed) bring us a depressing, but important, history lesson concerning the awful 112th Congress (and something neither mentioned, which is just as bad, are the stalled judicial appointments)...

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...and I don’t know how many other people besides me are going to say it today, so please allow me – happy birthday to Al Stewart.