A bunch of readers have asked us: What’s up with Rand Paul doing an actual filibuster this afternoon on the Senate floor?  And why aren’t you guys all over it? Well, by the ironies of the modern filibuster, this one has lots of fireworks and looks like what a lot of people think a filibuster should look like.  But it’s precisely because this one actually has no teeth that they’re resorting to the old fashioned system.  … Thus far, he’s enlisted Sens. Lee and Cruz to assist him with short breaks. [TPM]

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“It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States.” —Eric Holder, not talking about Abraham Lincoln. [Mother Jones]

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If, like us, the thought has crossed your mind lately that politics is worse than listening to turtles fuck, now’s your opportunity to test the comparison.

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This should be fun:

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Shake that Etch-a-Sketch:

[Gene Sperling] assumed, in other words, that Woodward would not do his job. This was an oversight.

This is no tempest in a teapot but rather the leak in the dike. Drip by drip, the Obama administration has demonstrated its intolerance for dissent and its contempt for any who stray from the White House script. Yes, all administrations are sensitive to criticism, and all push back when such criticism is deemed unfair or inaccurate. But no president since Richard Nixon has demonstrated such overt contempt for the messenger. And, thanks to technological advances in social media, Obama has been able to bypass traditional watchdogs as no other president has.

It’s as if the Bush administration never even happened.

Why the ‘Threat’ on Bob Woodward Matters [WaPo]