I can’t say I’m terribly surprised by any sludge from Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News and former Republican operative. But this was a pretty revealing passage from Ailes in the excerpt of the new bio which was just published in Vanity Fair … Read More
As I noted below, Rand Paul (and now a handful of his colleagues) are doing a real talking filibuster this afternoon in what is almost certainly a futile effort to block the nomination of John Brennan to serve as CIA Director. I just noticed a fellow reporter snarking on Twitter that, ‘well, Dems wanted to bring back the talking filibuster and now they’ve got it!’ Read More
TPM Reader TA was kinda impressed …
I sent a quick email as it was happening, but I was watching the Holder hearing today live and was really struck by Sen. Cruz’ questioning of Holder. He was trying to pin him down on whether it was constitutionally permissible for us to use a drone strike to kill an American citizen on U.S. soil when there was NO danger of imminent threat (as opposed to the “imminent threat to stop another 9/11” that he referred to in his letter to Paul).