If you don't want to succumb to the nagging feeling, then I recommend you not look at Glenn Thrush's Twitter feed.

Michael Scott lives.

"That's what she said."

QBF- excellent observation about administrative law. In a sense, it's funny to see Justice Thomas in the majority here. Justice Scalia took a similar view in Smith v. City of Jackson and deferred to the EEOC on the question of whether the Age Discrimination in Employment Act allowed disparate impact causes of action (I wrote an article accusing him of "punting"). Justice Thomas, himself a former Commissioner of the EEOC, declined to defer. I guess familiarity breeds contempt.

"Umm, yeah, hi there, G. Gordon ... this is Bebe from Miami. Big fan - long time listener, first time caller. Say, I heard something about a burglary at the Watergate a few days ago. You happen to hear about that? Know what may've been going down? Thanks, and I'll just hang up and listen to what y'all have to say."

You're correct, but the problem is that your advice is out of place.  Is that how I would handle a witness under oath at a trial, hearing, or deposition?  You bet, 100%.  The difference is that as much as we would prefer otherwise, politics is a contact sport.  Issa threw an elbow that needed to be thrown.

That's an interesting lead - do you doubt any of that was true?

Why should Congressman Issa should care when his witness has been held in contempt of Congress and has repeatedly stonewalled Issa's progress and cause?  Any progress will come from other witnesses; Holder is a waste of time at this point.

Step it up, eh?  I think you can count on that happening.

Here's the thing, though:  a witness has two jobs - (1) answer questions and (2) tell the truth.  Eric Holder has spent five years doing precious little of either.  If Republicans are going to "step it up" and get to the truth, they're going to have to go around Holder and the rest of the cabinet directly to front line people (like the Benghazi whistleblowers).  Yes, Republicans have an opportunity here, and extending courtesy to Eric Holder has nothing to do with seizing it. 

We all grow up some day.

Tom, most people sitting in Holder's seat didn't preside over a department that seized reporters' phone records under dubious circumstances. Most people sitting in Holder's seat didn't duck responsibility and evade questions for those shenanigans by playing stupid. Most people sitting in Holder's position didn't spike a slam dunk voting rights prosecution for no good reason. Maybe, just maybe, Holder needs to look in the mirror if he wants to know why he's not getting his boots licked as tenderly as he would prefer.

Nothing beats this scene from "Frasier," which skewers wine tasting's pretentious quackery: http://youtu.be/WJagAyCGZbg.

I wonder how Chick-Fil-A and its franchises have fared?"In seemingly unrelated news, the New England Patriots took the unusual step of canceling mini camp workouts so that several players could attend to urgent personal business. No further details were available about the nature of the players' need for time off, although Tom Brady was spotted leaving team facilities with several banker boxes of bank statements while Coach Bill Belichick followed behind clutching fistfuls of wadded Academy Sports receipts for sleeveless gray hoodies...."

I have a sudden strange urge to create a font that resembles jumbled letters cut from magazines and newspapers.

From "Dewey Defeats Truman" to "Sanford Defeats Clown's Sister." The South Carolina Dems are stepping up their game, though - she's a marked improvement over Alvin Greene. We better be careful. You never know whether Michael Moore has a brother jonesing to move to Hilton Head or Myrtle Beach.

"When Republicans rebel."

Wow, for an event like this, make sure you wear your best, most crisply ironed shirt. Oh, wait....

Since he's too circumspect to name names, here are my guesses: McCain, Kirk, Graham, Hatch, Grassley. Others?