+ Another first for Bush. No president has ever broken the 70% disapproval mark in a Gallup poll. Until now.
+ We finally have an answer on those missing White House emails. They are gone because the backup system they used was "Comically Primitive." The system created under the Clinton administration worked just fine, so the Bush people trashed it and replaced it with something that didn't work. Brilliant, no?
+ Hillary Clinton thinks she's Goldilocks. If the answer to every question was whatever was in the middle of the extremes, that'd be great. The problem, of course, is that the answer is rarely a simple average what everyone else is saying around you.
+ McCain now says that Bush shouldn't be blamed for the "Mission Accomplished" speech from 5 years back. Never mind that McCain once disagreed with his current position... what bothers me is that a supposed military expert is arguing that the Commander in Chief shouldn't be held responsible for every aspect of an event he ordered on board an aircraft carrier during a time of war. Particularly when we know, as apparently McCain does not, that the president's staff was directly responsible for the banner. This may seem like a small issue, and on its own it is. What's troubling is how it is part of McCain's long history of saying nonsensical things about areas in which he is supposedly expert.
+ Ross Douthat has a great point about McCain's approach to domestic policy here. It's not just that the policies are bad, but worse, that their politics are bad too.
+ In case you somehow missed it, the woman known as the DC Madam committed suicide. McMegan and Ezra ask all the right questions here. [Even more from McMegan here]
+ And in case you were wondering, Justice Scalia is still very much an asshole.
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