For the past 18 hours Republicans have been giddily waving around a new article by Bob Woodward as a smoking gun that proves sequestration should be replaced with spending cuts and spending cuts only — and that President Obama once conceded the point.
Here’s the key section, which certainly carries that implication. Read More
How is it that a Senator’s office ends up sending a form letter to a grieving parent of a child killed in a mass-shooting? The answer is that there’s no excuse. But two letters we received from TPM Readers shed some role on just how bad it’s gotten and the role of astroturf campaigns in the problem.
From TPM Reader MB …
It’s surprising how bad American political staffs have become at handling routine constituent correspondence like this — routine, that is, in the sense that elected officials can expect to receive frequent letters that require some modicum of understanding and acknowledgment.