Dick Cheney’s Benghazi Hypocrisy

Really, Dick? Really? What happened in Benghazi was terrible, to be sure; but a single day during the Bush administration’s first term saw damage over 750 times as bad.

James Hansen Speaking The Truth On Manmade Climate Change

Accepting the 2013 Ridenhour Courage Prize, James Hansen warns of the dire environmental impacts of our growing carbon emissions.

Ten Of Rachel Maddow’s Best Moments

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The American TV host, author and political commentator is no stranger to controversy. Here are some of Maddow’s livelier moments as captured by video, audio or another’s ears.

It’s Our Way Or We Break Medicare

The Article: Boehner And McConnell: Our Way Or We Break Medicare by Brian Beutler in Talking Points Memo.

The Text: Your big Obamacare story of the day is that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell won’t recommend commissioners to the Independent Payment Advisory Board — a panel designed to contain Medicare spending — as the law asks them to.

This isn’t a huge surprise given how, er, eager Republicans have been to smooth Obamacare implementation in general. But it’s more revealing, and just as ironic, as their other efforts to break or hinder the law before it takes full effect.

It’s not just that Boehner and McConnell hate Obamacare and it’s not just that they’re hypocrites about spending. What they’re saying with their actions is that if they can’t convert Medicare from a single-payer into a private insurance system, they’d rather the whole thing collapse under its own weight. President Obama’s and Paul Ryan’s Medicare plans both envision budget caps for Medicare — the difference is that Ryan wants to let private insurers enforce it while Obama leaves the task to providers, with IPAB as a backstop. The parties are actually in about the same place fiscally with respect to Medicare, but unless reaching a more sustainable trajectory means privatizing the program, Republicans will try to keep it unsustainable.

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Thanks, Obama

“Time travel still not an option? Thanks, Obama.”