of all this. and samantha power is being nominated as her replacement. she s going to have a relatively uncontroversial confirmation and she s a journalist and pulitzer prize winner and american authored an enpsych low paidic history of genocide and america s roll in it and the president read if and now look wherey where she is. she s been a little too pro intervention over the years but she s backtracked and she s brilliant and she ll do a great job. it s interesting how the syria conversation will go as we go forward. and we don t get to discuss libya lord knows what susan rice s politics are, because she was never allowed to go through the actual confirmation process where it might be hurt in the process. joan walsh, msnbc analyst, thank you. we re getting used to our institutions failing us but it s becoming a punch line for american success. american excess.