From The Rachel Maddow Show:
A look at the U.S. budget deficit by year.
“Today, the Tea Party has a new lease on life. The issue trifecta of Benghazi, the IRS audits, and the AP investigations has resuscitated the near moribund Tea Party. While each of these issues deals with different agencies and actors they share the common denominator of heightening distrust in the government.”
-Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, The Tea Party’s new lease on life
From The Last Word:
Texas Sen. John Cornyn argued on Tuesday that the federal government should adopt a similar entry-exit system to the one used by Walt Disney World.
Backing the amendment to the bill proposed by Sen. Jeff Sessions, Cornyn contended, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Gang of Eight’s bipartisan immigration bill undergoing markup this week, that if the biometrics system is “good enough for the Magic Kingdom, they ought to be good enough for the United States.”
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From All In:
A look at sexual assaults in the military in 2012.
“When an institution is failing to live up to the most basic expectations to protect its own members, to adhere to the rule of law, and to impose punishment and accountability on those who violate it, then there is a deep, institutional problem at hand.”
-Chris Hayes, on the barriers to progress in combating sexual assault in the military
“Just because some Republicans are hyperventilating with silly predictions about impeaching Obama doesn’t mean the situation isn’t serious for the president. If he doesn’t pull it together, he risks the rest of his legislative agenda and his legacy. So it’s time to call in reinforcements and prepare a battle plan that works.”
-Jonathan Alter, Obama’s political survival: Three things he should do now
“Every news organization with a reporter in Washington should dispatch journalists to demand answers from the attorney general and the White House about who knew what, and when, in the authorization and execution of a subpoena that in all likelihood collected phone numbers of sources for every story—hundreds, if not more—that AP reporters were working on during a two-month period in 2012 in Washington, New York, Hartford and at the House of Representatives.”
-Toni Lacy, Journalists beware: You could be next
![From The Last Word:
“He stopped his vehicle, and I was about 10-15 yards away. And Tamerlan [Tsarnaev] jumped out and he just started walking toward my cruiser and started firing at me.” — Watertown Police Officer Joe Reynolds http://on.msnbc.com/13jQ3fs](http://25.media.tumblr.com/cb990833d261b2be7ea854c68e0c4cc3/tumblr_mmua5yVWU11qc52lxo1_400.jpg)
From The Last Word:
“He stopped his vehicle, and I was about 10-15 yards away. And Tamerlan [Tsarnaev] jumped out and he just started walking toward my cruiser and started firing at me.” — Watertown Police Officer Joe Reynolds http://on.msnbc.com/13jQ3fs
“[Tamerlan] looked at his gun, then threw it at me–hit me in the left bicep here–turned, ran back down the driveway to the street, took a left, running toward the other officers that were on scene. And I holstered up and chased after him and tackled him.”
