Welcome to your Friday open thread. It’s Friday, so feel free to celebrate/commiserate/complain as needed. Also, tell us what else is on your mind.
This is a strange and sad story any way you look at it:
A “Black Widow” suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow on New Year’s Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her bomb too early, according to Russian security sources.
The unnamed woman, who is thought to be part of the same group that struck Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on Monday, intended to detonate a suicide belt near Red Square on New Year’s Eve in an attack that could have killed hundreds.
Security sources believe a message from her mobile phone operator wishing her a happy new year received just hours before the planned attack triggered her suicide belt, killing her at a safe house.
At least no innocent people were killed in this incident. There is a lot of disturbing unrest going on in the world right now.
Rep. Paul Broun had a “You Lie” moment during the SOTU when he tweeted that Obama didn’t believe in the Constitution but in socialism. Now he’s letting us know that the GOP has a secret plan to solve all the nation’s problems.
Yesterday, in a radio interview, Broun pushed the envelope a little more.
“The Republican Party is the party of K-N-O-W. We know how to lower the cost of health care. We know how to take care of the uninsurable. We know how to put patients in charge of their health care and have a market-based, patient centered health care system that’s not going to kill jobs like ObamaCare is going to do. And we know how to stimulate the economy. We know how to create jobs in the private sector. We know how to prevent this huge government takeover of health care as well as all of society.”
Now, I suppose the first temptation is to note how spectacularly wrong Broun is on the substance. The poor guy just seems to have no idea what he’s talking about, getting policies backwards. The “government takeover” line has already been labeled the “lie of the year,” and with good reason.
But let’s put all that aside. Arguably the more interesting claim here is that Broun and his Republican colleagues have unlocked long-sought answers to a variety of pressing national needs. The GOP, Broun boasts, knows all kinds of things — how to lower health care costs, how to bring coverage to the uninsured, how to create jobs,
and how to grow the economy.
Let me guess, it has something to do with tax cuts.