The man who is a suspect in the Halloween night slaying of a Seattle police officer is a ‘domestic terrorist’ who had explosive devices in his apartment, police officials said Saturday.

Christopher J. Monfort is believed to have worked alone in the fatal shooting of Seattle Police Officer Tim Brenton, as well as the Oct. 22 firebombing of four Seattle police vehicles, said Jim Pugel, Seattle Police assistant chief.

‘This man, from everything that we can tell, appears to be a lone domestic terrorist,’ Pugel said at a news conference.

An American flag found near where Brenton was shot provided a link between the cases, a law enforcement source said. Pugel told reporters there was one critical ‘piece of evidence’ at the homicide scene that resembled something else found in the Charles Street arson case.”

We should support the primary opponents of the following Democrats, and in the case of Artur Davis, not support his run for governor of Alabama. It would be great for Alabama to have a Democratic governor who is black, but it isn’t worth it if that Governor is going to be a lackey for the health insurance industry and the forces of the status quo.

The 39 Democrats who shouldn’t bother to be Democrats:

Adler
Altmire
Baird
Barrow
Boccieri
Boren
Boucher
Boyd
Bright
Chandler
Childers
Artur Davis
Lincoln Davis
Chet Edwards
Gordon
Griffith
Herseth-sandlin
Holden

Kissell
Kosmas
Kratovil
Kucinich
Betsy Markey
Marshall
Massa
Matheson
McIntyre
McMahon
Melancon
Minnick
Scott Murphy
Nye
Peterson
Ross
Shuler
Skelton
Tanner
Taylor
Teague

Office of the Press Secretary

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 7, 2009

Statement of President Barack Obama on House Passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act

Tonight, in an historic vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would finally make real the promise of quality, affordable health care for the American people.

The Affordable Health Care for America Act is a piece of legislation that will provide stability and security for Americans who have insurance; quality affordable options for those who don’t; and bring down the cost of health care for families, businesses, and the government while strengthening the financial health of Medicare. And it is legislation that is fully paid for and will reduce our long-term federal deficit.

Thanks to the hard work of the House, we are just two steps away from achieving health insurance reform in America. Now the United States Senate must follow suit and pass its version of the legislation. I am absolutely confident it will, and I look forward to signing comprehensive health insurance reform into law by the end of the year.

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Right now the vote is 220-215 in favor, with one Republican – Joseph Cao of Louisiana – voting in favor.

Congrats to Speaker Pelosi and the Dems who voted with her. History will remember this day.

YES, WE DID. Now, it’s your turn Harry Reid and the Senate.

The police officer who brought down a gunman after he went on a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army base here was on the way to have her car repaired when she responded to a police radio report of gunfire at a center where soldiers are processed before being sent overseas, the authorities said Friday.

As she pulled up to the center, the officer, Kimberly Denise Munley, spotted the gunman, later identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, brandishing a pistol and chasing a wounded soldier outside the building, said Chuck Medley, the director of emergency services at the base.

Sergeant Munley — a woman with a fierce love of hunting, surfing and other outdoor sports — bolted from her car, yanked her pistol out and shot at Major Hasan. He turned on her and began to fire. She ran toward him, continuing to fire, and both she and Major Hasan went down with several bullet wounds, Mr. Medley said.

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Sergeant Munley, 34, is an expert in firearms and a member of the SWAT team for the civilian police department on the base, officials said.

Mr. Medley said she had received specific training in a tactic called active shooter protocol, which was intended for this kind of situation.

“She’s absolutely a hero,” he said. “She had the training; she knew what to do. And she had the courage to do it — by doing it she saved countless people’s lives.”

‘The Republican Party in its roots is a party of inclusion and we ought to be promoting that and making sure that voices are heard,’ Cantor, of Virginia, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s ‘Political Capital with Al Hunt,’ airing today.

Cantor, when asked about Limbaugh’s comments that ‘Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate’ and his comparison of the administration’s health-care logo to a swastika, said his comparisons were wrong.

‘Do I condone the mention of Hitler in any discussion about politics?’ Cantor said. ‘No, I don’t, because obviously that is something that conjures up images that frankly are not, I think, very helpful.’ ”

Expect sometime Monday or so for Rush Limbaugh to give Cantor his back hand and for the congressman from Virginia to demonstrate more loyalty to a junkie than to the people of the commonwealth.

Link

Actress Jessica Alba met with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Friday morning to talk about the importance of global education. Pelosi then took Alba to a conference room in the speaker’s suite to address 18 members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus about raising awareness of the issue.

‘Jessica spoke very articulately and knowledgably about the need for greater emphasis on education,’ a House leadership staffer told Politics Daily in an exclusive interview Friday morning.

Question boldly.

Multiple deaths and multiple injuries have resulted from shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, according to a Fort Hood spokesman.

At least seven people are dead and as many as 20 are wounded, CNN affiliate KXXV reported, citing a Fort Hood spokesman. One person is in custody in connection with the incident, it said.

UPDATE: President Obama has been briefed

The army is saying 20 have been wounded.

UPDATE 2: Army rep says 12 dead currently… shooter was killed, was soldier and 2 additional arrested (also soldiers)

UPDATE 3: Gunman identified as Major Malik Nadal Hasan

UPDATE 4: VIDEO: President Obama on the “horrific outburst of violence”

Transcript of President Obama’s remarks

UPDATE 5: I should note that I find the constant cable news appearances of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson to be unseemly. Other pols have come on from the area (Republican) and have not been as icky as Hutchinson.

UPDATE 6: Army now reports that the shooter – Hassan – is not dead. He’s alive.

Bernard B. Kerik, a former New York police commissioner, pleaded guilty to eight felonies in a Federal District Court in White Plains on Thursday morning. Mr. Kerik, who will be sentenced in February, faces 27 to 33 months in prison.

Conservatives again demonstrate their impeccable judgement.

* Apparently the Yankees bought another World Series

* Woman at bakery supposedly fired for being too sexy, so she takes her clothes off for the newspaper. I love Brit tabloids.

* Toyota makes a profit

* Grayson counts the dead in GOP districts thanks to lack of health care reform

* Carly Fiorina shouldn’t be anywhere near the US Senate

* George Stephanopoulous is an idiot

* 54 years ago today, Dr. Emmet L. Brown came up with the flux capacitor.

* Kim Kardashian. Princess Jasmine. Halloween.

Idiots.

In many ways, Riggo is acting like some sort of senator or ambassador for the aggrieved Redskins fans. He’s the NFL’s Alan Grayson.