We began the show by catching up with the day's #GunFAIL news, running down the Capitol Hill headlines and noting the insanity of the spin surrounding the Mitch McConnell taping incident. The rest of the show was a hodge-podge of media clippings, including: a look at whether or not the President can or should
relieve Ed DeMarco as acting head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency; new revelations about the extent and official knowledge of standardized
test cheating under Michelle Rhee; the relative value of a
watered-down gun bill, and; the
NYT's editorial view of the
President's budget. Continuing the grab-bag approach, we read and discussed Mike Konczal's,
"How an anti-rentier agenda might bring liberals, conservatives together" and Andrew O'Hehir's
"Colonial Williamsburg: Where the Tea Party gets schooled."