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1.) College students: As reasonable as ever — If you don’t support what they support, you should probably die. Robby Soave reports for The Daily Caller News Foundation:
“A Georgetown University student blamed the Republicans for allowing student loan rates to double, while another said that all Republicans should be put to death. Campus Reform interviewed Georgetown students about their thoughts on student-loan reform and the GOP in general. One student gave a startling answer when asked whether he supported the Republican plan. ‘I don’t think I support anything the Republicans do,’ he said. ‘I think all of them should probably be put to death.'”
That student probably stridently opposes George W. Bush’s enhanced interrogation techniques. Ladies and gentleman, the case for raising the voting age.
2.) MSNBC guests: As reasonable as they always are — TheDC’s Jeff Poor reports on what passes for reasonable debate these days:
“On Thursday’s ‘NOW w/Alex Wagner’ on MSNBC, MSNBC contributor and managing editor of The Grio Joy Reid charged that Republicans oppose elements of the controversial immigration reform bill out of desire for indentured servitude and to prevent what she called ‘brown people’ from becoming U.S. citizens. ‘I mean, didn’t we do this before?’ Reid said at the opening of the show. ‘Wasn’t it called indentured servitude, right, where you come and pay all this money out and you are not a citizen, but you’re legally allowed to work on the farm? Like, this sounds like indentured servitude is what they want because as Josh [Barro] said, what Republicans are afraid of is — they don’t want to make these folks citizen because they don’t think they’ll vote for them in 13 years from now. They don’t think they can get there. But it is also a very sort of ugly ethnic argument that they don’t want to add more brown people to the population of the United States underlying the argument.'”
Agree or disagree with immigration reform, Joy Reid’s argument is silly — and that’s being kind.
3.) Mitch McConnell: As helpful as he always is — Always a helpful guy, Mitch McConnell is helping Harry Reid consider what might appear on his tombstone one day. TheDC’s Alex Pappas reports:
“Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell warned Harry Reid on Thursday that the Democratic majority leader’s ‘tombstone’ will say he ‘presided over the end of the Senate’ if he ‘caves to the fringes’ and changes Senate rules to make it easier to confirm administration appointees. ‘No Majority Leader wants written on his tombstone that he presided over the end of the Senate,’ McConnell warned from the Senate floor on Thursday, blasting Reid for suggesting that he will invoke the ‘nuclear option.’ ‘Well, if this Majority Leader caves to the fringes and let’s this happen, I’m afraid that’s exactly what they’ll write,’ McConnell argued.”
This presupposes the Senate wasn’t already ruined, right? TheDC Morning kids. Kind of.
4.) Desirable ambassadorial appointments: As much patronage posts as ever — Alec Hill from TheDC reports:
“The Obama administration has expanded the dubious White House practice of rewarding campaign donors with positions as ambassadors to foreign countries, a report from The Guardian said Wednesday. Citing its own estimates based on figures leaked to the New York Times, the Guardian conjectured that ten recent or imminent appointees to foreign embassy positions had raised on average $1.8 million for Obama’s election campaign coffers. The report noted that the ten donors had raised more than $5 million in 2013 alone. In contrast, the comparable number for George Bush’s appointees in 2001 was only $800,000.”
America may not have titles of nobility, but for a pretty penny, you too can be an ambassador.
5.) Tweet of Yesterday — daveweigel: IMPEACH (again) RT @justinbieber: @billclinton thanks for taking the time to talk Mr. President. Your words meant alot. #greatguy
6.) Today in North Korean News — BREAKING: “Science and Encyclopedia Publishing House Delegation Back Home”
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