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1.) Holdering on — Even people in the White House are getting tired of Eric Holder. TheDC’s Alex Pappas reports:
“Republicans have long been calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign. But citing new controversies at the Justice Department, The New York Times reported Sunday that even some West Wing aides in President Barack Obama’s White House now want Holder gone. ‘Over the course of four and a half years, no other member of President Obama’s cabinet has been at the center of so many polarizing episodes or the target of so much criticism,’ the paper reported. ‘While the White House publicly backed Mr. Holder as he tried to smooth over the latest uproar amid new speculation about his future, some in the West Wing privately tell associates they wish he would step down, viewing him as politically maladroit.'”
How many times has it seemed like Eric Holder was on his way out? At this point, you have to believe he has a shot at staying on all 8 years just to spite his critics — and to pour salt in their wounds, the Department of Justice building will end up being renamed in his honor.
2.) Up the chain we go — Looks like we were told yet another lie in the IRS scandal. TheDC’s Caroline May reports:
“In interviews with House Oversight Committee investigators, Cincinnati IRS employees said that they believed that targeting of conservative groups came from Washington, not from a couple of ‘rogue agents.’ Sunday the House Oversight Committee released partial transcripts of Oversight Committee investigators’ interviews with unnamed Cincinnati IRS employees, which contradicts the line coming from the White House. ‘It’s impossible,’ an IRS employee responded to an investigator’s question about the allegations that the targeting of conservative groups was due to ‘two rogue agents.’ ‘As an agent we are controlled by many, many people. We have to submit many, many reports. So the chance of two agents being rogue and doing things like that could never happen.'”
TheDC Morning suspects we still don’t know half the story.
3.) MSNBC is to news as a duck is to a popsicle — MSNBC doesn’t really do news. TheDC’s Jamie Weinstein reports:
“MSNBC President Phil Griffin says if you’re looking for top notch coverage of breaking news, MSNBC is probably not your best bet. Griffin made the comment in a New York Times article chronicling the recent decline of MSNBC’s ratings, entitled, ‘Devoted to Politics, MSNBC slips on Breaking News.’ ‘We’re not the place for that,’ Griffin told the Times, speaking of breaking news coverage. ‘Our brand is not that.’”
But, honestly, what would you prefer? Stupid facts about a breaking news story? Or Lawrence O’Donnell sanctimoniously lecturing you for an hour?
4.) Defining hero down — All you need to know about Curtis Morrison, the man who bugged Mitch McConnell’s campaign strategy session, is that he thinks Julian Assange is a hero. He tries to explain his deranged view to The Daily Caller’s Alex Pappas in an interview:
“TheDC: Why do you refer to Julian Assange and Anonymous as ‘vigilante heroes?’ Morrison: I think Julian Assange and Bradley S. Manning are both heroes because they exposed truth. Fascism only works with secrecy.”
Here’s a tip: When a U.S. citizen drops the word fascism during a conversation about current American politics, stop paying attention. It’s a virtual guarantee they don’t know the definition of the word and there’s a 75 percent chance they have an IQ in the double digits.
5.) Tweet of Yesterday — KimJongNumberUn: Given the risks of genetically modified food, our policy of no food is looking pretty golden.
6.) Today in North Korean News — BREAKING: “Kim Jong Un Visits Majon Bathing Resort”