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Thursday, January 21, 2010

I coin a phrase — "Find Your Todd Palin" — in this new Bloggingheads, with Emily Bazelon.



Topics:
Why did Scott Brown win?
Health care bill: too extreme/not extreme enough
Brown’s keys to victory: sexiness and a pickup truck
As wives become the breadwinners, what happens to sex?
Ann’s husband chimes in on powerful women finding mates
Retroactive matchmaking: Elizabeth Edwards and Todd Palin
Ann's husband chimes in... ha ha...

I should have linked to this version of "Reflection."



Back here. It would have meant more.

AND: Speaking of Scott Brown's women...

At the Forbidden Reflection Café...



... will you ever know who you really are?

ADDED: Thanks to Instapundit for linking to this — and, as you'll see if you clink on the "will you ever know" link — to Pogo for making the connection to Magritte and to Henry (the commenter) for the photoshopping.

"Much will depend on the wording, but today's decision is a small revolution in campaign finance law."

The Supreme Court has just issued the long-awaited Citizens United case. SCOTUSblog has a live-blog going on it. This is very big.

ADDED: Briefly:
The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on their participation in federal campaigns....

The justices also struck down part of the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that barred union- and corporate-paid issue ads in the closing days of election campaigns.

"I had no idea he was going to do that. I saw the script and there was definitely no mention of that. It was totally off script."



Charming? Dorky? Creepy? ... Scary?!
“I want a chastity belt on this man,” [Glenn] Beck said. “I want his every move watched in Washington. I don't trust this guy. This one could end with a dead intern.”
And keep an eye on Beck too. Something's not quite right with that man's brain. For one thing, Gary Condit did not kill Chandra Levy.

"Pelosi is faced with an enormous challenge because her natural style is to run a very left-wing operation and to dominate her caucus."

"She is facing the reality that the model she’s adopted is probably not sustainable when you have a country that’s in open rebellion against you."

Poor Nancy!

ADDED: Pelosi: "In every meeting that we have had, there would be nothing to give me any thought that that bill could pass right now the way that it is. There isn't a market right now for proceeding with the full bill unless some big changes are made."

When will my reflection show who I am inside?

There's a heart that must be free to fly that burns with a need to know the reason why...



That's a picture taken a year ago, as Obama was about to take the inaugural oath. It was uploaded yesterday, along with a lot of other nostalgic photos, to the White Flickr site.

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"Obama's first year: What went wrong."

IN THE COMMENTS: Pogo is reminded of this Magritte painting:



ADDED: Henry does the photoshopping: