Max Baucus has given liberals plenty of reason to question his adventures off the reservation (see his votes for the Bush tax cuts in 2001, for Medicare Part D in 2003, and his drawn out health care reform negotiations in 2009).
His latest involves protracted discussions with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp about reforming the tax code. As a Republican, Camp has made no secret that he wants any reform to be revenue neutral.
So it’s no surprise progressives sense danger. Read More
Local government official in Kansas complains about ‘n@gger-rigging’ on government contracts, clarifies he’s not racist.
It turns out the Rand Paul/Howard University event was considerably more epic than I understood from initial accounts. Paul basically gave the same ‘Hey, the GOP is the party of Lincoln and Civil Rights and black folk don’t know truth’ speech you hear at CPAC and somehow it didn’t go over well with the Howard University crowd. Just read.
I think Rand Paul’s going to have a real problem backing up this statement.
“I’ve never wavered in my support for civil rights or the Civil RIghts Act.” -Rand Paul. That’s just not even close to true.
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) April 10, 2013
TPM Reader DL shares an echo of the destruction …
Your piece really got to me. Death on the scale of the Holocaust is so overwhelming — so unfathomable that we have trouble processing the reality of it. I am also Jewish and was raised with a kind of cultural paranoia that I’ve always tried to tamp down — basically to maintain my mental health. My father was first generation and his parents survived the pogroms so it was fresh to them. But I was born in America. I wanted to feel safe and belong in this culture and the carrying the Holocaust memory was an anger I fought against.
Brian Beutler on the key factual issue that will likely determine whether that McConnell campaign strategy session was legally recorded.
New Obama budget cracks down on key Romney tax avoidance tricks.