one of the weirdest visuals from the east coast earthquake was this shot of the united states senate. we showed this on the show last night and i sort of have not been able to get it off my mind. this is technically the united states senate, just doesn t look like a picture you ve seen of the senate, this was the united states senate in session at the postal square building, a building four blocks away from the actual senate. the white house, capitol, pentagon, were all evacuated yesterday s afternoon. so when the senate wanted to reconvene, they tried to make this random room look as senatorial as possible hence the flag and senate seal and chris coons. an event was cancelled tonight in washington because of quake damage, but almost all of the other d.c. land marks and memorials and office buildings seem to be reopening now after experiencing only cosmetic damage from the quake, if any. but chris coons himself, chris coons himself may be a good marker of something else that
the actual senate. the white house, capitol, pentag pentagon, were all evacuated yesterday s afternoon. so when the senate wanted to reconve reconvene, they tried to make this random room look as senatorial as possible hence the flag and senate seal and chris coo coons. an event was cancelled tonight in washington because of quake damage, but almost all of the other d.c. land marks and memorials and office buildings seem to be reopening now after experiencing only cosmetic damage from the quake, if any. but chris coons himself, chris coons himself may be a good marker of something else that s going on in washington that s not really getting very much attention even as the big quake is. the senate seat that chris coons holds was an open seat when he ran for it, it was vice president biden s seat in delaware. the election to fill the seat was november 2010. november 2010 was a deep, deep, deep red election day, right? republicans just ran the board last november, they won almos
from the east coast earthquake yesterday was this short of the united states senate. we showed this on the show last night and i sort of have not been able to get it off my mind. this is technically the united states senate, just doesn t look like any other picture you ve seen of the senate, because this was the united states senate in session at the postal square building, not the u.s. capitol. at a building four blocks away from the actual senate. the white house, capitol, pentagon, were all evacuated yesterday afternoon. so when the senate wanted to convene, their pro form ma we re only here for a minute or two session, they had to find some other place to do it. they tried to make this random room in the postal square building look as senatorial as possible, hence the flag, senate seal and delaware senator chris coons proceeding. an event was cancelled tonight at national building museum in washington because of quake damage. most of all the other d.c. landmarks and memor
actually. many times i thought the president has gone into many negotiations with too weak an opening bid. he s essentially said okay, you can have three quarters of an eighth of what you want and we ll take a quarter of an eighth and let s start there. that em boldens the radicals. however, i don t think you can blame the president entirely for the fact republicans are looking over their shoulders at the tea party caucus and asking where s the energy, enthusiasm, money in our party, and that s where they see it. in terms of this notion that the difference is the marginal difference between deal one and three is the difference between a primary challenge and not. i think it s clear what happened to bob bennet and others that did get primaried, and mike cassel, i don t know if the motivation for the primary is going to may too much attention to the sort of careful details
many times i thought the president has gone into many negotiations with too weak an opening bid. he s essentially said okay, you can have three quarters of an eighth of what you want and we ll take a quarter of an eighth and let s start there. that emboldens the radicals. however, i don t think you can blame the president entirely for the fact republicans are looking over their shoulders at the tea party caucus and asking where s the energy, enthusiasm, money in our party, and that s where they see it. in terms of this notion that the difference is the marginal difference between deal one and three is the difference between a primary challenge and not. i think it s clear what happened to bob bennet and others that did get primaried, and mike cassel, i don t know if the motivation for the primary is going to may too much attention to the sort of careful details of this deal. no, it pays attention to the