we've got further updates for you on the situation in japan coming up, including some of the assets americans did not necessarily know our country had before this crisis, but now that we're in this kind of crisis it is good to know we've got them and that they are deploying. that is ahead. but before we do that, we have to be the place for politics again here for a second. because while the crisis in japan is happening, while the uprisings in the middle east and north africa have started to turn into the wars in the middle east and north africa, wars that maybe garnering international and american intervention now, while all those things are happening, domestic politics, red versus blue politics here in the u.s., have taken a remarkable turn. and it is not coming from washington where it is coming from is next.