Author: Andrew Sullivan

Not enough sex.

A secretary bird is pictured in his enclosure at the Tierpark Friedrichsfelde zoo in Berlin on June 15, 2010. The raptor birds are native to open landscapes of Africa. By Barbara Sax/AFP/Getty Images.

She worries Chait:

Angle did not quite advocate armed rebellion, but she did clearly egg it on it in a way that melds prediction with encouragement…The alarming thing is not so much what Angle said but how relatively little a ripple it has made. It's just one more gaffe, something that has not prevented her from being embraced by Senate Republicans. It is not even considered sufficiently outrageous to force her to disavow the clear implication of what she said. It really seems like a dangerous milestone is the darkening mood of the American right.

Yglesias examines Angle's ties to Scientology. National Review's encomium is here. She's got the Palin schtick down:

“At that point, I realized that the government had interfered with my family. It was kind of like a mother bear and her cubs: Don’t get between me and my cubs, or you’ve got trouble.”

You can't really appreciate the gulf between the Cameron Tories and the Palinite Republicans until you have read this document. What's striking is the lack of apology for an aggressive pro-gay agenda from the Tory Home Secretary, Theresa May:

“We’re working to make Britain a place where everyone is treated fairly and everyone has an equal chance in life, whatever their sexual orientation or gender identity. This ambitious programme of work is the first step on that journey.”

There was a reception at 10, Downing Street, for the gay community last Wednesday. This is what happens when real conservatives are in power – and not religious fanatics.

The Gaza deal is best described by Marc Lynch:

The Israeli government will significantly ease the blockade of Gaza in exchange for American support for a whitewash of the investigation of the flotilla incident.

So the Mavi Marmara achieved its goal substantially – at the expense of any justice for the attack itself. Steve Hynd adds:

By forcing this small retreat, future Israeli and U.S. retreats will come easier and faster. Thus, although it sticks in my craw to countenance a lack of legal accountability for the Flotilla assault, I'll reluctantly take the product, if that leads to a wall being tore down, instead.

Andrew Sprung sees more signs of gradual progress in this new era of American diplomacy.

More gruesome details from the Gulf:

The LA Times has more.

(Hat tip: BF)

The once-judicious, meticulous, balanced columnist and political analyst is now blathering about Obama as a "thug." And yes, he backs Joe Barton.

Kinsley takes aim:

Krugman himself looks at CBO projections of deficits declining from 10 percent of GDP now to four percent in 2014 before starting to rise again, and concedes that this is "not enough." Then he cavalierly says that all you need to solve the problem is (a) to bring health costs under control, and (b) a five-percent value added tax. Oh, is that all? I have no doubt that if Paul Krugman were economic dictator, we could impose these or other solutions. In the real world (or should I say "unreal world") of current American politics, either one of these partial solutions is unthinkable without a catastrophic crisis to force our hand.

How hard is that to understand?

That's how Samuel Jacobs explains Crist's swift rise in the polls.

"The queue waiting to see the end of the crisis", originally uploaded by el silencio, at Flickr.