The GOP’s long-awaited change to confront Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber is underway in the House. Watch.
The text of the executive summary of Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the United States’ post-9/11 torture regimen.
It looks like another Ted Cruz tantrum may upend the GOP’s best laid plans to avoid another government shutdown. Here’s the story.
With today’s Gruber auto de fe, it’s worth stating again something that is obvious and really indisputable: Obamacare is almost certainly the most deeply scrutinized, discussed and argued over piece of legislation of the entire 20th century and early 21st century. Jonathan Gruber saying something silly at a conference doesn’t change that.
For a lot of folks, the Senate Intel Committee report is so long overdue that it seems like a rehash (no, there’s lots of new details in here) of a dark chapter that has been closed. But so long as the CIA continues to assert that torture (though it doesn’t use that word) yielded actionable intelligence, I don’t see how you can call this a closed chapter in American history. From CIA Director John Brennan’s statement today (“EITs” is the euphemism for torture: enhanced interrogation techniques):
The top five moments of drama, nonsense and derp from today Gruber hearing on Capitol Hill.
Dems may have struck a deal to keep legal weed out of the nation’s capital.
GOP tried to attach a new contraception rule to the funding bill that’s supposed to stop a government shutdown.
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