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
On Friday we noted that The New Yorker had dug up a three year old speech in which freshman Sen. Ted Cruz had charged that there were at least a dozen professors at Harvard Law School during his time there in the mid-90s who “would say they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government.” Read More
Just before the conclave to elect a new Pope, Britain’s highest ranking Catholic, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, is resigning in the wake of accusations of ‘inappropriate acts’ with priests.
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Over recent days we’ve heard a growing chorus of squeals from Washington Republicans about how President Obama really, really, really needs to do something about the sequester. This is joined by lots of stories about Republicans trying to name the sequester the Obamaquester and saying it was all President Obama’s fault and his doing. But all of this amounts to protesting too much. Read More
Attention-starved race-baiter Donald Trump says Django Unchained is “one of the most racist movies.” Watch.
As we circle down on the big sequester cuts, it’s important to remember that any deal on getting rid of the sequester seems certain to involve major cuts to social insurance programs like Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. Republicans want it to be all social insurance cuts. But even President Obama has signaled a willingness to make more cautious cuts. With that in mind we wanted to have a discussion at TPMPRime about just what this means, both in terms of the substance of the cuts and the politics. Read More
Iranian news agency adds “sleeves” to Michelle Obama’s Oscar gown.
At high school hockey game in North Dakota fans decide it would be a great idea to break out the KKK hoods and gowns.