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So there is a Mitt Romney documentary that was filmed during both his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns that will be debuting on Netflix next week. It was screened at Sundance last night, and Sahil Kapur of TPM lists the five big revelations from the documentary....

The big fat liar had a busy week: - Both the state Senate and Assembly created their own special committees to investigate the Christie law breaking and within hours, 20 subpoenas were issued to 17 key people and three organizations in the unfolding story. - Those in the governor’s inner circle who have been subpoenaed include Kevin O’Dowd, the governor’s pick to serve as the state’s new attorney general; Michael Drewniak, Christie’s chief spokesman; Bill Stepien, his former campaign manager; Charles McKenna, the governor’s chief counsel; Bridget Anne Kelly, former deputy chief of staff; and Matt Mowers, another former aide. - Christie lawyered up for good reason. - Christie told a group in Weehawken that he was committed to being in New Jersey for all 4 years of his second term - for the first time signaling that he might not run for President. More inside...

Yeah, the marriage equality battle is over. We won. We are tied in Utah, 48-48. Josh Marshall:

It's even more clear now that the battle for the principle of marriage equality is genuinely over. Not just in blue states, which we knew, but even in many of the most conservative states in the country. (Nate Silver argued last year that Mississippi and Alabama are likely to be the final same sex marriage hold outs.) What we have now isn't so much a battle as a vast moping up operation, a race between legislatures and the courts to catch up with galloping public opinion. Since last month we know have this most recent federal court decision in Oklahoma, another state with some claim to being the most conservative state in the country, tossing out the state's ban on same sex marriage. To play the devil's advocate, we can note that the judges in the Utah and Oklahoma cases were Clinton and Obama appointees. (The Judge with the narrower ruling in Ohio is another Obama appointee.) We've yet to see a judge appointee by Republican president make a similar ruling. But judges don't generally like to get overruled or get too far out in front of higher court rulings. One judge going off on his or her own is one thing. Three making such a finding in short order suggests that Justice Scalia was right in stating what most others recognized: that the Court's decision in Windsor leaves virtually no constitutional ground for states to reject same sex marriage.

For the nation's idiots, this is going to be a hill worth dying on, but it doesn't really matter. The Washington area NFL team will be called something other than the "redskins" in our lifetime (probably within the next ten years.)

Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder has turned DeAngelo Hall into the voice of reason. The oft-fined cornerback conceded this week that the team "probably should" change its name. "I think eventually they will change it," Hall responded when asked about the team's name during an appearance on FOX Sports' "Keeping It Real With Mike Hill."

Just imagine a team called the Heebs, or the Chinks, or the Whites and it is easy to see that the name is not going to make it. My suggestion is ...

A true friend of Delaware Liberal, Steve Newton, will run for the 22nd Representative District seat currently held by Republican Joe Miro. Miro, BTW, is one of those legislators who has basically retired, but never bothered to tell anybody. If any third party candidate has a real shot, Steve is at the top of the list. He is consistently one of the most thoughtful and on-point analysts of public policy in our state. Here is the press release in its entirety.. inside.....

Bridgegate has boosted Hillary in 2016. A new NBC/Marist Poll has found that the former Secretary of State now leads New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) 50% to 37%. Last month, Hillary's lead was only 3 points, 48% to 45%. Speaking of Hillary, the bipartisan Senate Benghazi report, released today, has debunked all the right wing conspiracy theories. Not that truth and facts matter to the right wing.