Jesus.  I’m in agreement with Dianne Feinstein and Bernie Sanders, for Chrissakes. Are we sure the world didn’t end, and that this is just some version of hell I’ve been sent to for that one time I coaxed a couple of very hot, slightly drunk coeds into, you know, touching each other for me? (h/t geoff b)

From what I understand, Boehner was threatening committee seats, subcommittee seats, and everything in between in order to get the “insane” teabaggers — or as I like to call them, principled Constitutionalists — to go along with his plan to jettison Republican party principle, adopt the paradigm of class warfare (as Romney had before him), and set the precedent for punishing successful people in order to fund the government for

Because our own national media likes to excerpt and edit and pick and choose what to show you. Otherwise, you may not take way the correct lesson — or have the proper context for the planned “outrage” in response. It’s who they are. It’s what they do. So, from the Guardian UK: The National Rifle Association’s 4 million mothers, fathers, sons and daughters join the nation in horror, outrage, grief