Just under a week ago on January 5th, Matt Taibbi's expose of John Boehner hit the Rolling Stone website.It's typical Taibbi: poignant, brilliant writing exposing the hypocrisy and underbelly of Washington and one of its most detestable politicians. And after a brief flurry of attention, it was largely forgotten as just another political hit piece among dozens of similar, if less researched and artful, efforts on the new Republican congress.
But in the light of the Giffords shooting, one part of Taibbi's article in particular stands out with bone-chilling prescience: MORE...
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Sunday, January 09, 2011
"Bone-chilling prescience from Matt Taibbi"
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