Over at the Hive, we’re discussing and speculating whether the Benghazi debacle will lead to the kind of (fairly warranted) blood-letting that happened in the wake of 2004’s epic Bush National Guard segment disaster. What do you think?
You might have heard that last month that the famous British street artist Banksy stealthily gave one of his paintings — an image of a Nazi officer enjoying a serene mountain landscape — to a charity in New York City that fights homelessness and AIDS. It was a nice gesture and a celebrated move, and the charity immediately auctioned off the painting to help its cause. The winning bid came in at $615,000.
Well, now there’s been a twist — or two. I won’t spoil it, but suffice to say the auction fell apart, and then the situation got even stranger. Check out this exclusive report from TPM’s Catherine Thompson.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was hogwild about the now-discredited 60 Minutes blockbuster in which fabricator-security contractor Dylan Davies recounted his nonexistent exploits the night of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi more than a year ago. But after CBS finally retracted the story this morning (after dragging its collective heels for a week), Graham is now declining to discuss the story or the retraction.
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Here’s a great data visualization of an ugly truth: the Supreme Court’s and Republican governors attempts to sabotage and claw back Obamacare has led to additional millions of Americans – over a million people left uninsured just in Texas. This has tended to be thought of as a sidenote in the sprawling Obamacare story. But look at this chart and see the numbers. It’s powerful.
Lest we think of Mayor Rob Ford as only a murderous crackhead, there’s another more human side of the man.
Not one to get out over his skis, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has not been one of the rabble-rousers about nuking the filibuster, especially not for judicial nominees. But continued GOP intransigence, including the blockade of any more nominations to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, has even Leahy making noises about weakening the filibuster rules.
CBS’ Lara Logan today on her 60 Minutes report on Benghazi: “The truth is that we made a mistake.” Watch.
The harshest blow the Republican anti-Obamacare jihad has delivered is this one.
Following in our series of moving for politics, TPM Reader TA explains why he’s stayed put in his native South …
This is a subject I’ve been fascinated by for a long time.
I’m a liberal who has chosen to stay in his native South, despite having lived in New York City for a while, and having very close friends in California who frequently encourage me to move out there, where I will fit in better. And once upon a time I did go as far as interviewing for jobs in, you guessed it, Portland. But I stayed.
Staying in the South doesn’t make me any kind of hero, or even a pioneer, like JR. I grew up in this culture, so I know how it works and I know how to function within it and maintain my sanity . . . more or less (there’s a lot of silent swearing and gallows humor involved). And I don’t have kids, so I don’t have some of JM’s concerns; on the other hand, that’s also more and more true of liberals in general.