You never want your college roommate talking to the New York Times about you, even when you’re a used car salesman from Texas accused of conspiring with elements of the Iranian government to carry out terrorist attacks in the U.S.: “His socks would not match. He was always losing his keys and his cellphone. He was not capable of carrying out this plan.”

Inside the new Republican orthodoxy that a big chunk of the middle class deserves a tax INCREASE. Must read.