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Six months ago today, we made history. And we’re not done yet. twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 6, 2013
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Line of the day?
Charles Pierce: Just as Darrell Issa and his merry men are ready to engage in another round of Outrage Kabuki on the subject of Benghazi, BENGHAZI!, BENGHAZI!!, some of the air is going out of the balloon already, and the high-pitched whistling seems to have reached a frequency that can be heard at the dog’s breakfast known as Fox And Friends.
And when you’ve lost a human tack-hammer like Brian Kilmeade, it’s going to be tough to sell anyone smarter, which is, you know, like, everybody.
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Jonathan Bernstein: If you’re not inside the conservative information feedback loop, you might not be aware that within that loop the Benghazi “scandal” is still going at 100 percent strength. Months after the actual incident, which was back in September. Even though no one has ever made clear exactly what terrible secret was the subject of the supposed cover-up; even though a succession of “revelations” have all turned out to be nonsense (here’s one from just last week). Doesn’t matter; discredited accusations are just forgotten and new ones are substituted.
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New post || Open thread – competing claims in Syria | The People’s View: thepeoplesview.net/2013/05/open-t…
— Liberal Librarian (@Lib_Librarian) May 6, 2013
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Dan Rather: “All of these things we’ve said about what the president could do, should do, might have, could have, but the central thing to keep in mind is his opponents — you talk about taking them out to dinner, making nice with them — these people, politically, want to cut his heart out and throw his liver to the dogs.”
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Heritage vs. Heritage: Major immigration report released today directly contradicts its 2006 study thkpr.gs/107cMgE
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) May 6, 2013
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UPDATE: Author of Heritage’s 2006 study on immigration reform blasts Heritage’s 2013 study as brutally dishonest thkpr.gs/107cMgE
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) May 6, 2013
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on The View today:
