About your Search  with us tonight. thanks so much. >> take
care. >> that is "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "the rachel
maddow show" starts right now. chris hayes filling in for rachel
tonight. >> thank you, ed. thanks for joining us this hour.
rachel has the night off, but happy wednesday, everyone, tgiw,
am i right? you know how it is, things start to wind down on
wednesday afternoon. you send off your last e-mail, maybe pop a
beer from the office fridge and head on home for the weekend.
all right, you, watching this right now, probably don't do that.
but that's how your friendly neighborhood lame duck congress
rolls. the house was supposed to be in session tomorrow, was the
republican leadership went ahead and canceled that thursday
session, so it's wednesday and the weekend has arrived, if your
job title is united states representative. amid the crush of
members heading out of the capital building today, you could
even spot republican congressman mo brooks of alabama biking
into his five-day weekend. the