Tuesday Stuff

I really hadn’t planned to say anything about this today given that I wanted to devote everything else to mark the grim anniversary of we-all-know-what (also noted here), but I have to given the fact that Harry Reid has said here that he won’t bring Dianne Feinstein’s renewal of the assault weapons ban up for a vote in the Senate.

To which I say, why the hell not?

We know Harry Reid can’t get any Repug votes. They’ve totally gone over as the comforters of the already-comfortable “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch. I don’t see how anyone can blame Reid for that.

But what I can (and I DO) blame him for is not making the effort to hold a vote to get these cretins on the record, establishing once and for all that these craven shills are totally at the disposal of their puppet masters dispensing their weapons of death and carnage. F*ck Senate protocol! (and yes, I really said that).

Michael Moore is on Piers Morgan as I type this, and one of the things he said is that at least the Repugs have the courage of their awful convictions. That’s more than I can ever say for Harry Reid and his admittedly good ones (this video reminds us what's at stake, in case we've somehow forgotten, notwithstanding our idiot politicians...and please spare me the whole "HE SAID 'FULLY AUTOMATIC' - BOY IS HE DUMB!" stuff...a semi-automatic will kill you just as dead, and that's all Adam Lanza needed to slaughter 20 school children and 6 adult teachers with 5 30-round clips in about five minutes)…



…and by the way, the spiritual godfather of this blog (something that would probably make him laugh if he cared enough) would have been 85 today (here) – the credo of his most famous character (I guess) is included in this clip…



…and as someone must (and Rachel Maddow is definitely someone up to the task), we are reminded indeed of what happened 10 years ago today (and those who plied their craft to foul ends in service of the war are noted here, including Mr. Suck-On-This…the Iraq stuff starts at about 11:10, but the rest of this, including Vietnam and Nixon – which I’d more or less heard before – is pretty darned interesting too...I didn't see the follow-up piece with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson)…

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Update 3/20/13: And by the way, it took a lot to get a laugh out of this, but here is an example (h/t Atrios).

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