Tantrum at Tiger Beat on the Potomac

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If you don't know that reference, that is the name that Charlie Pierce has given to the execrable Politico. And it also means that you aren't reading Charlie Pierce on the regular, which you really must start doing. Anyway, they are having a snit about the access that the Obama Administration does not give to the White House Press Corps. This after the same Press Corps has been whinging about not being able to cover the President while he golfs with Tiger Woods. All of this without getting the irony that they are spending more energy in complaining about the President not hanging around to joke with them than they are in explaining any sequester replacement plans. Or maybe climate change policy.

Tuesday Open Thread [2.19.13]

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Three major labor unions in Delaware, the AFL-CIO, the Delaware Building and Construction Trades Counsel and the Delaware Public Employees Council 81-AFSCME, have endorsed marriage equality and are lobbying the General Assembly to pass the bill this session. Kavips gets all "Day After Tomorrow" on us. So the chief achievement of Senator Tom Carper's entire lengthy career in politics, the establishment of a National Park in Delaware, is nigh. That this is his chief achievement, and that I am still confused as to what will constitute this so-called "National Park" speaks volumes.

I Got Nothing

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I've spent a good part of the morning looking for something to write about, and I got nothing.  Have I become immune to Republican crazy?  There's enough of it out…