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Of ashley judd, it could not have been a weirder week for politics. All this is coming up. First an update on the storm hitting the northeast. Alex, thanks to you. Im craig melvin. Here is the very latest on that winter storm. New York Transit Authority has suspended the system that goes into kkds. Rhode island and new york with limited in maine as well. Governors have issued travel bans this afternoon for all nonessential vehicles. Nearly 5,000 flights have been canceled so far. Amtrak suspended Northbound Service out of new yorks penn station earlier tonight. This was governor Chris Christie earlier tonight. The overall safety issues is an obvious one, stay home. Lets go to bill karins with the latest on this. What can you tl us . Were halfway through with our blizzard. That we know for sure. Some areas are fairing well and some are doing as bad as we thought they would, rhode island up toward the boston area. Let me show you the wind gusts. Now were cutting it to the peak winds of this storm. New haven, north wind at 47. Thats not even off the water. Thats impressive. Gust gusts from 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour all up the eastern mass and rhode island as weve gone throughout the last two to three hours. We have about 50 to 100,000 people without power estimated right now, especially in eastern new england. The white on the map shows you where the snow is. Heaviest snow band right up through the center of connecticut. Already reports of 12 to 14 inches widespread throughout the state of connecticut. Even rhode island reporting over a foot. Were well on our way to getting our two foot totals. If you look down to the bottom of the screen there, you notice new york city and jersey didnt have a lot of snow over the next couple of hours. Now its starting to fill in a little bit. Its a little too late. This storm is moving very quickly. Look at it on satellite imagery. You can see it just to the south. Its even past cape cod now. For new york city, you have two to four inches on the ground. Youll get another two to three by the time its all said and done. New york city its a tough forecast from the start. If theres one city that would be considered a bust, maybe that would be it. Heaviest snow shifts, rhode island, massachusetts, new hampshire, coastal maine. Well be ending the snow in the overnight hours. Adirondacks, catskills, poconos and new jersey. Well have blowing snow out there. Heavy accumulating snows will be ending during the overnight hours. If anything, the storm is moving a little faster than expected. A lot of us will actually wake up with no snow falling from the sky saturday morning. The storm total forecast, new york city at 6 to 10, down to 4 to 8. We have a shot of getting 18 or so around hartford. Boston, somewhere between six to ten inches. You have a shot of getting up to 24 or 306789 may have to lower that a little bit. You still have a good chance at a two foot snow storm. Portland you are going to end up getting your 18 to 20 foot. Bottom line is we have a crippling blizzard shutting down all transportation. Want to bring in Weather Channel meteorologist mike seidel live on the ground in revere, massachusetts. Whats the scene there, mike . Reporter hey, craig. Were still checking the brunt of this blizzard. Weve had wind gusts nearby Logan Airport 60 miles an hour. To the south and east of here toward the cape weve had gusts to hurricane forces, 74. Nantucket, 69. Its these east and north facing beaches that were concerned with tonight and tomorrow with extreme beach erosion. High tide right now. Thats going to go out, come back in. The worst of the high tides will be the next one, saturday morning around 9 30 or 10 00, well have surge issues. Also big breakers as high as 20 footers hitting these beaches south of here. Like sedgewick where police have asked those in beach front homes to get to higher ground. No stranger to flooding. And Power Companies saying if power goes out, it could be out for at least three days. Speaking of that, the two major Power Companies in massachusetts, end star and National Grid now reporting 143,000 customers without power. That number has tripled in the past 90 minutes. That will likely go up with these wind gusts over 60 miles an hour. Thats taking trees and limbs down over power lines. The wind is beginning to shift a little bit. Now an eastnortheasterly wind, blowing the snow sideways. The sea wall is keeping the water out of the street here on revere beach boulevard. Long way to go. Measuring twofoot drifts as the snow continues to come down. We get these winds up over 60 miles an hour. Well likely have five, sixfoot drifts before this wraps up later on saturday morning. A big storm. Already tomorrow theyve canceled at least 240 flights at Logan Airport. Another tough day to fly out of the northeast. Although things will ramp back up, i think, in short to full service certainly by sunday midday. Craig, thats the latest from revere beach. Well be hunkered here all night and updating you from the Weather Channel. Mike, do appreciate that. Stay safe, good sir. Im craig melvin. When we come back, alex wagner is is in for laurps odonnell on this friday night. Shell show you why democrats believe they might be able to take back the house from republicans. Plus, howard dean and chris hayes will be on the last word, next. We know a place where tossing and turning have given way to sleeping. Where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. And lunesta® eszopiclone can help you get there. Like it has for so many people before. When taking lunesta, dont drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. Walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activities while asleep, without remembering it the next day, have been reported. Lunesta should not be taken together with alcohol. 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These cuts cost job. They dont even want to talk about it. Who are the monsters who came up with the sequestration idea . Guess what, they all support it. Congress put it into place to force themselves to agree. Dumbe esest blame game in washington. Its time for another round of republican would you rather. Well call this the sequester edition. Todays question, would you rather go up against al qaeda or Grover Norquist . Republican senator Lindsey Graham said al qaeda would love the defense cuts in the sequester to take effect. Our enemies would love this to happen. Im sure iran is very supportive of sequestration. Im sure al qaeda Training Camps all over the world would be pleased with the fact that sequestration would gut the cia. Republican Armed Services Ranking Member jim inhoff agrees it would be dire but not as dire as breaking the pledge to Grover Norquist. Its in the desperate enough that you can start raising taxes. Obstacle to the republican republicans same as it ever was, their absolute refusal to agreeing to even a dollar of new tax revenue. They believe they can shift the blame this time to president obama. Today, speaker boehners office was sending around call obama sequesters bluff. Republicans should continue to refuse to make any concessions or compromise with the white house, he says, even write iing script for them. We are quite prepared to cut elsewhere but we already raised taxes last month. If the presses wants to avoid the sequester as we do, he must offer a substitute set of cuts. Otherwise, mr. President , there is nothing to discuss. Your sequester, republicans need to reiterate the sequester was the president s idea in the first place, will go ahead. The sequester was the president s idea . Thats what the republicans want you to believe. The Speakers Office has even created the obamaquester. Lets travel back in time to the great ceiling debt debacle of 2011. Here is what president obama was demanding. At minimum weve got to raise the debt ceiling. So, thats the bare minimum that has to be achieved. Here is what john boehner and the republicans in the house were demanding. The house cannot pass a bill that raises taxes on job creators. The house could only pass a debt limit bill that includes spending cuts larger than the hike in the debt limit as well as real restraints on future spending. And here is what john boehner said when the final bill was si signed into law with the dreaded sequester. When you look at this final agreement that we came to with the white house, i got 98 of what i wanted. Im pretty happy. To his credit, thats how republicans Lindsey Graham remembers it as well. As john will say it with straight talk, we have our fingerprints as republicans on this proposal, on this sequestration idea. It was the president s idea, according to Bob Woodwards book, but we as the Republican Party gagreed to it. We got in this mess together and were going to have to get out together. Joining me now are howard dean, former vermont governor and dnc chairman and chris hayes, host of msnbcs up with chris hayes. Gentlemen, thank you both for joining me. Governor, youtube is an amazing thing, is it not . Lest we forget republicans have their fingerprints all over the sequester. They look like such pathetic whiners and wimps. He voted for the damn thing, right . Now hes trying to give somebody else responsibility. That is not leadership. Leadership is saying i take the responsibility because i did this. At the end he doesnt look too bad. Okay, weve got to get out of this together. They are whining and moaning and weeping, oh, this is someone elses idea. Its not going to fly with the american people. Its an underestimation of the american public. It is. Graham voted no actually however john boehner and many would say the Republican Leadership voted sequester. Chris . The fundamental problem here is that the approach has been to figure out a way to bind future versions of the house. Lindsey graham is trying to say i want to make sure you do the right thing, Lindsey Graham. And to do that im going to put this bind around you in the future. But you can always just vote how youre going to vote in the future, right . Ive seen this with people who tried to quit smoking or drinking. Like padlocking the refrigerator door. Its exactly like that, padlocking the refrigerator door. Then you go out to the corner bar or buying a pack of cigarettes and throwing out the pack and smoke one cigarette. Then you buy another pack, right . They keep trying to bind their future behavior. The problem is that they had the exact same political incentives in every single moment. What that is is terrible leadership in the congress. They didnt use to do this. Theres no leadership. Boehners problem is not the fact that hes a terrible speaker. I dont think he is. His problem is that he will not stand up to the radical right wing of his party. He has to create these hostage situations to get people in line. And lately its gotten worse for him. If that keeps on he will not be speaker this time next year. Whether he does what he just did in the lame duck, which is throw out the socalled hassert rule. It will just pass with a majority of democratic votes and a minority of republicans. And basically hand power to nancy pelosi. Again. That has been the precedent. Governor, a lot of talk theres been a lot of talk about defense cuts, which certainly are half of the sequester. There are other programs being cut. 9. 4 to unemployment benefits, 600,000 children and women lose food aid, 10,000 teachers fired. Theyre trying to emerge from the rock of being unsympathetic to the working poor, the middle class. You have these sequester cuts take place that undermines any argument. I depart from democratic orthodoxy in this one. I so bad want to cut all the fat out of the pentagon that im willing to do this. Its terrible. I hope we can restore some of the things. 2 medicaid cuts dont have any effect on patient care whatsoever. It is true that there are some bad cuts in there from a democratic point of view. We are never again going to get a chance to cut the pentagon back from where its been. Pentagon hasnt had any significant cuts for 30 years. A lot of money thats going to be cut is money that was not asked for but the pentagon was put in by bloated Congress People who wanted to do stuff for people in their district. Im a fairly hawkish on defense, but this is an enterprise that hasnt been touched for 30 years and this may be our only chance. Thats interesting sort of where the two sides come together, which is to say members of the Progressive Left think this is the only time were going to get these defense cuts and deficit hawks, conservatives, tea partiers are putting moderate republicans in a bind saying this is cutting our deficit. Lets go for it. The grand irony, of course, is the fact that the number if you poll people their number one issue is jobs, right . It continues to be jobs. And 120 billion austerity crunch, the numbers being bantered around, in exchange for the sequester, which is like 85 billion. Whatever it is, right, thats a big chunk. That will have an effect, negative jobs effect, no question. It is going to have an effect, i agree with you, chris. Here is what i think. I think it is a risk. There will probably be a small recession. We had a. 1 decrease in gdp last time. This deficit is a real problem. This is where i depart from paul. Who am i to depart from paul . A nobel laureate. Well ask him. This is about the best deal well get out of the rightwinged crazy people in the house. Because its balanced and it doesnt really touch theres no better deal progressives are going to get out of this other than going over the cliff. Im so worried about austerity and europeans did it wrong. We had throw years of recovery relative to europe. If were ever going to take the hit this is a better time to take t if this were three years ago, i would be arguing right with you. I think we can take a chance. When are we going to get the chance to take these cuts in the pentagon or take a bite out of the deficit . I think its worth it. Now twittering dean quester. If he would stop blaming someone else other than himself and man up and take responsibility. Kris hayes, im sure your guests will have much more explaining on kicking the can down the road. Thank you. Ousted Fox News Contributor says hes on a mission for the Republican Party. Bill clinton dishes advice to democrats, looking to take back the house. What is his winning plan . And karl rove is still really scared about his senate seat in kentucky. What bushs brain is planning to do to stop a hollywood liberal who hasnt even said shes running. Karl rove versus ashley judd. Round two is coming up. And why cant we be friends . Please. Please, america, like the last word on facebook. Please. [ male announcer ] when it comes to the financial obstacles military families face, we understand. Our Financial Advice is geared specifically to current and former military members and their families. [ laughs ] dad dad [ applause ] [ male announcer ] life brings obstacles. Usaa brings retirement advice. Call or visit us online. Were ready to help. Learn more with our free usaa retirement guide. Call 877242usaa. So i used my Citi Thankyou card to pick up some accessories. A new belt. Some nylons. And what girl wouldnt need new shoes . 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Com. So how bad does president obama want to govern with the democratic majority in the house of representatives . The president has already agreed to headline at least eight fundraisers for House Democrats ahead of the 2014 election. Roll call reports that obamas agreement to help dccc chairman steve israel of new york make the sell to wouldbe candidates is targeted districts is significant. Its transformational, israel said in an interview, adding that House Democrats are firing on all cylinders like ive never seen before. The president s efforts to assist House Democrats politically are more than israel initially even asked for. 17 seats to retake the majority. House democrats gathered at their annual retreat in virginia where they received this advice from bill clinton. The republicans are going to try very hard to not make it as easy for you to win by a negative reference. That is, there were some places where we won because people saw what they wanted to do and they didnt like it and all of you sounded better. Whoa now will have to have an affirmative agenda. He also advised democrats on how to campaign on guns. I think we ought to stay with this issue, but you can do it in a way that recognizes that there are people out there that arent supposed to be part of our demographic. Theyre thinking about this, too. Theyre not making a living as part of a washington lobby group. They were sick when those children were killed. I guarantee you what a lot of people were where i grew up, were asking themselves the following practical question, if that young man had had to load three times as often as he did, would all those children have been killed. So turn into this. Treat these people as our friends, our neighbors, people we share our country with. While democrats are receiving advice from the most popular politician in america, republicans will receive advice from the most misguided political pundit in america. Before his dismissal from fox news, dick morris predicted republicans would take the white house and senate and today he tells the national review, im trying to explore ways in which the Republican Party can make itself viable nationally. Now im kind of a man with a mission. I showed democrats how to move to the center. Now i want to help do the same thing with the Republican Party. Ive got a pretty good track record of getting president s and senators and governors elected and i think that gives me credibility to talk to my fellow republicans. Joining me now, msnbcs karen finney and hugo, editor of the times magazine. Karen, there are Many Democrats who would say, dick norris, please, go ahead, give all the advice you want. At the end of the day, its a really interesting dynamic in the house. Democrats actually have some power here to pass legislation. Right. Thats exactly right. I mean, even in the last session, we know that a majority of the things that actually got done got done because nancy pelosi help ed make sure it happened. The reality is john boehner is very ham strung here. He does not have a lot of power in terms of his own caucus. He does rely on pelosi and the democrats to get some things done. So, part of what that means, though, that gives democrats leverage going into this legislative session. And were already in a position where somehow the republicans missed the whole huge, glaring, neon sign of a message coming out of the last election and thenk they can boehner, you heard him. Its the same talking points that theyve already lost on. I think democrats are in a much better, stronger position than we have been in, in a very long time. Hugo, its important to always heed the words of bill clinton if youre a democratic stat gist. I thought it was interesting that he did caution the House Democrats not to get too comfortable playing the crazy card visavis republicans and we have to have an affirmative vision, not just that were the better party. Political action, something he was very effective at and is a model. Its not just a model for the democrats. Clinton was speaking and i was like, maybe he should have been at the republican retreat. If they knew what was good for them, he should zblb wouldnt that have made some news . Deficit hawks they are. I want to play some sound bite from bill clintons advice to democrats. This is his advice over immigration and demographics and sort of leave no stone unturned. Right. Lets take a listen to what he said. If youre going to stir up a storm over health care, over immigration, you have to turn into them not away from them. You cannot assume that people that you look at and say thats not my demographic. We have nothing to say to them. They have nothing to say to us. Thats part and parcel about how to talk about guns. You cant dismiss parts of the country. You cant dismiss people that you think arent in your demographic. That was part of the president s gift when he ran for president , coming from a very red state. But also its something that democrats have been working on, frankly, since i was at the dnc in 2005. And that is we know, polls show that a majority of americans agree with us on the issues. We actually sincerely have a challenge in how we talk about issues. The republicans think that was their message, but its actually not. And i think its not going to work. What president clinton is talking about is exactly right. Dont assume that we have nothing to say because we havent necessarily talked to a particular group before, because actually, again, were at a unique moment where we know people actually agree with us. So now is the perfect time to engage in the conversation and lets engage in the conversation in a way that doesntbarriers. Thats the message that democrats are trying to work on and took away from president clintons message. Thats quite heartening, they are in a position of strength and unity to some degree and say lets not squander this opportunity but think wholesale about where we are as a party. Conversely, republicans are operating from a weakened position and i cant get over these quotes. Whenever a republican leader comes out and says weve got to change the direction in which we are heading, there is never any real concession to substantive policy changes. Bobby jindal said i dont think its just a marketing change or cosmetic changes. Its going to require serious changes, not in principles, but in the way we talk and act. Its not cosmetic but at the end of the day it is cosmetic. It is for now. Youll see an evolution of some kind in the Republican Party, maybe not through all aspects of it, but there will be opportunities for new leadership in the republicans and it will be interesting to see how that develops over the many months. Karen . Part of the challenge that the Republican Party has right now, particularly in these districts, that the hens have come home to roost, focusing on this increasingly narrow part of their base, that thats who they rely on. As they try to expand their message and their tent, its going to be a challenge to hold on to that fair right. Theres a challenge for the democrats, too. They are feeling pretty cocky right now and they really think they have to have some legislative success. They literally have to put points on the board. I think its great to talk about this. Its nice to have clinton show up at your retreat, give you that sage advice of the ages. Follow it. But theyve got to pass genuine gun control. Right. Gun control is going to be a longterm issue for the democrats. They cant think its not going to get done in one bill. Its a longterm thing. Theyve got to get ready for that and set it and really go to work. In other words, heed the advice of bill clinton or else. Karen finney and hugo lindgren, thank you for joining me. From fallon to letterman, just what the comedians ordered. Week one of retirement for now and shes still voted most popular. Hi. Hi. Im here to pick up some cacti. It should be under stephens. The verizon share everything plan for small business. Get a shareable pool of data. Got enough joshua trees . On up to 25 devices. So you can spend less time. Yea, the golden barrels. Managing wireless costs and technology and more time driving your business potential. Looks like were going to need to order more agaves. Ah oh ow . And more bandages. Thats powerful. Shareable data plus unlimited talk and text. Now save 50 on a droid razr maxx hd by motorola. 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Ive got hundreds more that you can read. And we have a better chair for you. My doctor continues to warn me that my luck is going to run out relatively soon. Believe me, its something that im very conscious of. Its happened for politics going back decades and decades. Bill clinton used to get made fun of on saturday night live in terms of his weight. Are you going to finish these fries . In terms of people in the state being concerned about whether or not it prevents me from being able to do my job effectively, i think theyve seen the results of that. Theres that word again, heavy. Why are things so heavy in the future . Is there a problem with the earths gravitational pull . What . The latest poll from new jersey shows his Approval Rating at a whopping 70 . Among democrats its a robust 59 , 88 among republicans and 7 1 with independents. The economy could become a liability with unemployment in the state still at 9. 6 . Voters are split 45 46 when it comes to approving how governor christie is approving the economy. He is getting bipartisan support. Responding to clintons doctor, who said she is worried that he may die in office, david actixed said when i weigh all the facts i have to side with christie. Leave the poor guy alone. He told her that she should shut up during a press conference and things got even worse. It was essentially the tone of the press conference, but louder. So he yelled at you . Uhhuh. It was hard to get anything across, yeah. He pretty much yelled the whole time . Uhhuh. Joining me now to talk about this and the other weirdest political headlines of the week, the Laverne Shirley of the washington post. It is always a good evening when we can close it out, almost, with the two of you. Gentlemen, thanks for joining me. Thanks. This is a pleasure to be here on friday night. Thank god its friday. After four days of talking about his weight, your thinking on governor christie, has he come out ahead of this issue . Has he neutralized it in advance of any possible 2016 run . I think sam wants to weigh in on this one. I desperately want to weigh in on this one. I think hes neutral. He has this image of like the every man governor who has to struggle with his weight problems, much like the rest of the country. That being said its totally legit to me that were focusing on his weight issues because, you know, if were going to elect these people, we should check the most rudimentary thing, which is are they in good physical health. My favorite part was that he told the doctor he was upset with her because she was trying to seize the spotlight by saying something outrageous. This is Chris Christie, upset with Somebody Just to get himself on national tv. Cannot believe she would do that. Outrageous can we talk about the political calculus of calling a former white house doctor and yelling at her on the telephone . Someone who is a republican at that. Yeah. Its weird, right . Shes trying to probably make more of a Public Policy point than he is by this, by pointing out that obesity is a major problem and that we should be concerned about it. And that, you know, you should take steps to deal with it prior to it becoming a major problem. So i do think, you know, it was worthwhile for her to say something. Maybe she said it in the wrong way. And maybe being public about it, she probably could have sent a private communicae there. Calling her up and berating her probably wasnt the best way to go. He needs to watch out for catching the sarah palin political disease, who kept doing crazy things and it kept working for her. She kept breaking all the political rules. Oh, yeah. It worked and it worked and so she said there must be no political rules. Im going to keep following my instincts. Where did those lead her . You seem to think its infallible and it blows up in your face. Taking cues from sarah palin, not advisable. Sticking with political controversies of the cosmetic, here is how things turned out for Hillary Clinton this week. Fox news suddenly became fascinated with Hillary Clintons latest look. Days after retiring as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, somebody has launched a new website for her, showing off this glamorous new face. Face lift perhaps . Face lift, thats fueling rumors about a run. Really . For president in 2016, but her aides say its simply a way for fans and her media to reach her. Two hours after that comment, foxs steve doocy said saw some lefty blogs that i said hillary had a facelift. Nope. I was saying hillary wb site had a new pic. Really . I think my head shot has been touched at my instruction. I want to say a website is just a website. If you click on the contact button, look at all the information they want from you, your email, your way to get back to you, contact information. Something tells me that data is not just going to go away and theyre going to throw it out. Hillarys political future is looking quite good. She is americas favorite politician of those polled with a 61 favoritability rating. She out ranked the president and Vice President as well as her replacement secretary of state john kerry. Paul ryan is the first republican in the ratings, then marco rubio, jeb bush and speaker boehner. Is it a taste of things to come if hillary runs in 2016 . Lefty blogs may be upset at steve doocy. Ive seen other things on lefty blogs. I heard that steve doocy actually has calf implants. N now, i dont have any evidence to back that up whatsoever. No. But, you know, just put a question mark at that. Can we put a question mark at the end of that . Youre referring to, of course, his own personal blog being implanted sam thought about getting calf implants because were on a Basketball Team together. Thats why he only does television from the waist up. Exactly. Just kind of a vanity thing. There is a nugget of probably something actually worth discussing here, which is our National Obsession with Hillary Clinton and also the way women are scrutinized in the public lens. Oh, totally. Totally. And hillary, in particular, is an incredible sort of sign post for what well call the male gaze, given the scrutiny of the way she looks in a ponytail or blackberrying or whatever it is. How often it always comes back to hillary. Weve been having these same type of slipups from usually male commentators for two decades now, always revolving around her. I think part of what makes her such an appealing politician is her ability to sort of withstand and brush this off. And, you know, i think if she were to consider 2016, stuff like what steve doocy says only makes her a stronger, more appealing politician. People sympathize, just like people sympathize with criticisms of Chris Christies weight, people sympathize with how hillary is put under a microscope because of her looks. You dont want to see people go through that. And the steve doocy camp is probably sympathizing with him right now. There are rurps out there about the calf implants. Sad thing is that joe biden could probably go out and get a face lift, actual one and fox would not put they wouldnt care. One thing is for sure. This is not the last time we scrutinize Hillary Clintons looks. Moving on to the most absurd political battle this week, Tea Party Versus karl rove versus wait for it ashley judd. Someone who will never forget where she came from. And it just clicked. Tennessee is home. And it just clicked. Kentucky. Is home. Ashley judd, an obamafollowing radical hollywood liberal who is right at home here in tennessee. I mean kentucky. Who could possibly be afraid of ashley judd . It turns out karl rove and Mitch Mcconnell are really, really afraid of ashley judd. Is karl rove right, you have to be gate keepers . Not you because youre not in the position but people like party chairs, fundraisers . Of course they are. But i dont know that karl rove, after his performance in 2012, should be the gate keeper. If some people think the best we can do is todd mourdoch excuse me, todd aiken and richard mourdoch, theyre wrong. You made some mistakes but everybody makes mistakes. But hes already actually spending money, trying to stop one democrat from running for sena senate. Poor ashley judd, come on now. Youre calling her making fun of her. This is the opening act. She has said a bunch of stuff that the people of kentucky when they hear about it are are not going to like it. Want to explain her radical views that shes got and in the weeks and months ahead well continue to introduce those radical views to the people of kentucky. We have but a moment left, sam and ryan. Is bushs brain actually shaken by the woman who played reed halsey in the Television Show sisters . Where did you play that from . From my mind cave. It seems weird and unseemly a little bit. You kind of sensed in oreillys voice that he was like, dude, tone it down a little bit. Youre come iing off a little dorky. I guess theyre very fearful. Mitch mcconnell is in a political position right now, poll numbers are terrible. I guess it suggests shes a viable alternative. She hasnt even announced yet. Either theyre afraid of her or theres this other weird thing that goes on in politics. You have one random rich donor who is willing to fund only one particular project that he or she is into. And maybe theres somebody out there that just despises ashley judd. Just hated her forever. 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Likes to get in there, get a look at the new pant suits. Spank me. Today, the Postal Service announced that it will stop delivering mail on saturdays. Postal workers were shocked. They were like, we were supposed to deliver mail on saturdays . The Justice Department has concluded the president can order drone strikes on american citizens. Today, Rush Limbaugh came out in favor of obama care. These are not the drones youre looking for. Actual footage, president obama skeet shooting at the white house. Look at this. Pull. The white house released president obama skeet shooting but nobody bothered to find out what hes actually shooting at. We have it. Take a look. Mitt romneys son, tag tag. Youre it. Denying reports he will run for senate this year. He is saying the timing isnt right, just like when his dad tries to clap along to a song. 49ers super bowl champions, those that donate to countries in africa and south america. No, no, they are. Which is good news because those people are getting tired of wearing those president romney tshirts. What is your name . Former massachusetts senator scott brown is in talks to become a contributor on fox news. First they have to check his background and test his knowledge of Current Events and if he fails hell start monday. Last two months they fired sarah palin, former parttime governor of alaska and dick morris,