Happy Memorial Day, soldiers!  This failure to pass was, of course, the fault of the GOP-run House, who pushed the bill through with bipartisan support.  Thing is, had they been thinking correctly, they could have named the legislation the “Koch Brothers Accountability and Offer to Drop Dead” bill, and it would have whisked right through the Senate, likely with McCain, Graham, Alexander, and a number of others joining the Dems

Rather than take down Ezra Klein my own self (I’ve done that enough over the years, so much so that it seems less than sporting at this point) or quote at length Ron Fournier’s takedown of Ezra Klein (because that means linking to the National Journal, which has lurched left, even as it now tries to walk back its earlier lightbringer cultishness), I’ll instead quote Jim Geraghty’s referencing of Fournier’s

From pre-dawn raids by body armor-adorned federal agents that result in the loss of livelihood and eventual lawfare that strips citizens of their savings in order that they may protect themselves from dubious arrest and prosecution, to bonds issued that, as part of the price of freedom, require that the truth (or at least, one first-hand account of events) be suppressed, we are living in what can only be described

Which, translated into Swedish, goes something like this:  sure, it’s true.  But when the truth proves potentially explosive — literally! — it needs to be criminalized.  For the Greater Good. Reached for comment, Swedish Supergroup Abba noted, “Really?  And here I thought we were Sweden’s most famous pussies.” (h/t sdferr)

Jeff G, As you know, my friend and colleague Mitch McConnell has just won the Kentucky Republican Primary and is poised to become the next Majority Leader of the United States Senate. Mitch has boldly led the Republicans in the Senate against Barack Obama’s liberal agenda and he needs your help to keep the fight going against Harry Reid, President Obama, and their hand-picked candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes in November.