Wednesday Open Thread [4.9.14]

Wednesday Open Thread [4.9.14]

Come inside to watch a video from Randall Paul, which some pundits are saying will end his 2016 candidacy because he dared question Dick Cheney, the Iraq War and the military industrial complex. I am not so sure. David Corn explains:
Critics of President George W. Bush and Cheney have long assailed the pair for pushing a WMD-centered case for war that was false and questioned their reasons and motives for invading Iraq. But it's notable that a member of the Senate who might be a leading contender for the GOP's 2016 presidential nomination thinks that the most recent Republican vice president snookered the nation into war to boost profits for a company he once steered.
This is not news to us. We long believed that this was what Cheney did. We believed it then, in 2002 and 2003. And we were proven right. But we are dirty liberals, right? Who cares if we are always right. We're "libruls!!!!!" Now that a libertarian-tea-party-conservative-clinton-hater confused Republican is saying it, finally, the notion that Dick Cheney committed treason may finally sink in.
Courtship Republican Style

Courtship Republican Style

I don't get it.  Seriously, I just don't get it.  Republicans openly acknowledge that they have women issues.  They don't pretend they don't exist, so why in the world is their new "wooing women" strategy based on insulting women?  And the Republican statements over the gender pay gap give a stunning insight into how the GOP sees women.