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The GOP's IRS struggle
GOP aides tell me the struggle will be to take this IRS thing from being about TP victims to being about an administration's corruption — @robertcostaNRO via web Who needs facts when you have conclusions? Sure, having reality on your...Show More Summary
White House learned of IRS inquiry last month; Issa informed in mid-2012
Say it ain't so, Joe!
In more news from Scandalnavia, the place from whence all Obama scandals come:
The chief White House lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, learned last month that a Treasury inspector general had concluded an audit of the Internal...Show More Summary
Midday open thread
Today's comic from Tom Tomorrow is A bedtime story: What you missed on Sunday Kos... Big-thinking Cato Institute: 400ppm haz got what plants crave, by Hunter The next biggest scandal ever, until the next one, by Hunter Republican outreach...Show More Summary
House set to vote Wednesday on whether to snatch Keystone XL approval from president's hands
There's a process for approving projects like the Keystone XL pipeline that would carry petroleum from the tar sand deposits of Alberta to the refineries of the Texas Gulf Coast. That process is set by the National Environmental Protection...Show More Summary
Falling in love with another girl lands Florida teen in criminal jeopardy
Florida teen Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, is seeing her young life turned upside down and her future jeopardized simply because she fell in love. Unfortunately for her, she fell in love with a younger girl who has vindictive bigots for parents.
Hunt...Show More Summary
GOP congressman comes up with new theory for impeaching Obama
A new reason to impeach President Barack Obama (my emphasis):
Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, says President Barack Obama may face impeachment over his administration’s response to the Benghazi attack.
“They purposefully and willfully misled the American people, and that’s unacceptable,” Chaffetz tells me. “It’s part of a pattern of deception.” [...]Show More Summary
Gillibrand offers bill to lower student loan interest for millions
Most people with student loan debt are struggling with higher interest rates than mortgages and many other loans carry. And in most cases, refinancing isn't an option for student loan debt. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is seeking to change...Show More Summary
Republicans and business push to expand guest worker programs
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Guest worker visas are resurfacing as one of the most contentious parts of immigration reform negotiations. Despite the compromise deal between the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO that went into the bipartisan...Show More Summary
CNN poll: Republicans only ones wrapped up in scandal
Something about Democratic presidents drives Republicans nuts
President Obama's net approval rating in CNN's latest poll has gone from -3 in March (47 percent approve, 50 percent disapprove) to to +8 in May (53 percent approve, 45 percent disapprove), a gain of 11 points.
Yeah, you read that right. Show More Summary
In 'defense' of ABC's Jon Karl
As John Aravosis notes, ABC's Jonathan Karl issued a strange nopology yesterday for his report on the Benghazi talking point emails:
“Clearly, I regret the email was quoted incorrectly and I regret that it’s become a distraction from the story, which still entirely stands. Show More Summary
A bedtime story
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Ken Cuccinelli finds a soul mate for a running mate
Ken Cuccinnelli couldn't be happier to be hitched to a lunatic like E.W. Jackson Ken Cuccinelli, the Virginia Republican Party's right-wing nut job gubernatorial candidate, has a new BFF: The newly minted Republican nominee for lieutenant...Show More Summary
Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Karen Handel to run for Senate in Georgia
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Leading Off:
• GA-Sen: As expected, former Secretary of State Karen Handel has entered the GOP primary for Georgia's open Senate seat. Show More Summary
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I forgot to look at the world and see what happened this weekend, but my guess is that we had it right last week, and the Sunday shows pretended that the political world froze somewhere around Wednesday. Show More Summary
Cheers and Jeers: Monday
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
The Seed
A seed blew through my window one day
And settled on the floor
It must've blown a long long way
Three hundred miles? Maybe four?
Twas very small and very light
What could it be, I did wonder.
So...Show More Summary
Abbreviated pundit round-up: A few real scandals to mix with the fake ones
Matthew Rothschild at The Progressive writes House Republicans say no free lunch for poor kids: [T]he poor and the hungry shouldn’t have to suffer because of Wall Street’s excesses and George Bush’s wars. If Republicans wanted to make...Show More Summary
Open thread for night owls: Austerity and debt wreck lives of working American families
The following excerpt, via, Alternet, comes from Robert Kuttner's new book, Debtors' Prison, titled Austerity and Debt Conspire to Wreck the Lives of Working American Families: “Living within one’s means” is an appealing but oversimplified metaphor. Show More Summary
Big-thinking Cato Institute: 400ppm haz got what plants crave
Whatever keeps the checks coming, I guess
I continue to be impressed at just how devoid of sentient thought you can be and still land a gig at a "think tank." In this case, the Koch-founded, hypothetically libertarian Cato Institute:
The...Show More Summary
Life back in the canopy
"Room with a View," copyright by climber-photographer Greg Epperson. Used here with his permission. Click image for more breathtaking climbing shots at Greg's homepage. If you hang out up high with rock climbers, or anything involving...Show More Summary
Welcome to the Darrell Issa Hall of Shame
With Washington engulfed in scandals real and imagined over the Benghazi tragedy, the IRS' handling of applications by political groups for tax exempt status and the Justice Department's seizure of AP phone records, California Congressman...Show More Summary