hwarzenegger. if you haven t done $100 milon at the box office, don t show up. you re quiet. the celebrity i would like in 2012 is sarah palin. i would lik a democt retaining the presidency. ha, ha, ha. christine o donne wilbe a celebrity after this. she s like mini me to sarah palin. she has a lot of likeness to sah palin. same constitutional understanding. see, you guy algainstme? no, no, no. do you think the tea pty ought toeparate itself from certain individuals? don t you think what do you mean? for example i don t want to pick on christine o donnell, but she restible. she s not bad. i do think the tea party elevated a lot of candidates. look at engel and reid.
washington, d.c., overtaking the entire republican party. two weeks from tomorrow it s going to be an amazing thing to see. november 3, john boehner will be the speaker of the house of representatives, depending upon the tea party, about 25 members of his caucus will be members. four to five members of the united states senate will be members of the tea party. they will define the agenda. the tea party has won. i have never seen anything like it. it is staggering to me. this is an amazing thing to behold. freshman congressmen don t have power. they tend to figure out where they belong. let me use scott brown as an example. he was a tea party candidate. he s larger than life. this is not the scott brown show. he s a piece of the infrastructure and the team. i agree with certain elements of your critique. i m not describing a few members of congress here and there that will be chairs of committees. it is the emotional takeover. what we initially dismissed as a small grassro
chill. right now only in the upper 40s to near 50. northern montgomery county. panhandle of west virginia. elsewhere, generally we re in the mid-50s. a little bit milder in southern virginia right around the outer banks. out in the mountains, in the 40s this morning. a mostly clear sky now. clouds in southern virginia producing a few light showers there. they ll stay to our south toda increasing clouds this afrnoon. highs reach upper 60s. cloudy late tonight. rain likely by dawn, tomorrow off and on. friday, blustery wind, mid-six. saturday, sunny. we ll stay dry and autumnal for sunday. jerry, how is traffic? soth sailing this morning. li pictures, wilson bridge. moving along very, very nicely. interstate 66, eastbound and westbound. there s westbound heading out to fair oaks. east bound en route in t beltway. should find the rains open. a lot of overnight construction on 66 and the capital beltway and closing some bridges and ramps that were closed. eun. jerry, thank yo
the first black republican woman elected to congress, but she lost her primary race in arkansas. then we will speak to henry red cloud, winner of this year s nuclear-free future award. he is the founder of the lakota solar enterprises, one of the first and only native own operated renewable energy sinees. he les on the pine ridge reservation. first, director of photographer ann jones who s just back from afghanistan to talk about her new book war is not over when it s over: women speak out from the ruins of war. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. pakistan has blocked key supply route for the u.s.-led nato force in afghanistan after a cross border helicopters strikeistakenly kled three kisti troops. the move comes one day after news emerged pakistan had threatened to stop protecting nato supply routes to afghanistan after a series of attacks killed over 70 people. around 100 nato vehicles hav
well, the u.s. struck its largest arms deal ever and it s with a country we know, fun our enemies and may be our enemy. we learned today the white house will offer a $60 billion ariel arsonal to saudi arabia. 70 apache helicopters, 72 blackhawks and three dozen litt for sale to the saudis. also, talk of supplying the kingdom with tens of billions more in naval defense upgrade. the sale reportedly aimed at shoring up relations with key arab allies in the middle east, namely saudi arabia. the country that routinely doles out amputations, this summer, for example, a 13-year-old girl was given just 93 lashes for having a smart phone in school. women, of course, forbidden from driving. cinemas, concerts in a society banned altogether. howho sexuality is punished by death. with friends like these, who needs enemies. and did we forget the 9/11 hijackers, the money we pay them for oil, they use the money to buy our guns to oppress our people while they provide one of the top sources