Richard Socarides on IRS–tea party scandal: ‘This is a disaster’
“A high crime or misdemeanor, as we know from the last time around this track, is whatever the House majority decides it is.” —Michael Tomasky watch video
Topic: Barack Obama
John Fugelsang: BENGHAZI — now in easy-to-swallow pill form
“Just one pill in the morning gives you that sense of righteous false equivalency, with none of the pesky awareness that you’re actually exploiting four tragic American deaths.” —John Fugelsang watch video
John Rosenthal: ‘The NRA supports criminals and terrorists, not law-abiding citizens’
“The NRA is toasting that they have continued to convince Congress to allow criminals and terrorists to buy guns undetected, without a background check. … It’s outrageous.” —John Rosenthal watch video
Adam Serwer on transferring prisoners out of Guantanamo: ‘The Republican objections are ridiculous’
“If Gitmo detainees were transferred to the United States, they’d be in the most secure federal institutions … on the planet.” —Adam Serwer watch video
Charles Pierce: The sequester will really hurt ‘people who don’t get noticed on the news very much’
“(The sequester will hurt) the kids who can’t get into Head Start, and the people whose food stamps are going to get cut, and a lot of people who don’t get covered quite as extensively as people who get delayed [...] watch video
Obama vs. O’Brien: Who commanded the floor at the Correspondents’ Association Dinner?
“The halibut joke was very funny, but what he should have said is, ‘CNN, way before dinner was served, had reported the halibut had already been caught.’” —Elayne Boosler on Conan O’Brien at the Correspondents’ Association Dinner watch video
‘“Freedom” must be his safe word’: Frank Conniff on George W. Bush’s presidential center speech
“The gift shop [at the Bush museum] sells just one thing: it’s the deficit, and it’s the gift that keeps on giving.” —Elayne Boosler watch video
John Fugelsang lists George W. Bush’s good deeds — eventually
“Bush’s greatest achievement for which I will always personally thank him: He didn’t die in office.” —John Fugelsang watch video
David Sirota decries the ‘hyperpartisan’ blame game in the wake of the Boston bombings
“We now live in a hyperpartisan, hyperpolitical world where the unifying factor in the Republican Party is a hatred of President Obama.” —David Sirota watch video
John Fugelsang: We must hold Obama accountable on drones — because he asked us to
“Do you know what the problem with drones is? That President Obama got to keep the Nobel Peace Prize but Milli Vanilli had to give the Grammy back.” —John Fugelsang watch video
