In Which We Discuss:

1. GOP members finds themselves hating one of their own ideas yet again after Obama follows their advice on Syria

2. In order to steal focus from their first bad idea, GOP members also cannibalize their own immigration reform bill

3. NSA spying program not effective enough to find Edward Snowden even as entire international press corps snags interviews

4. SCOTUS expected to announce their next round of bad decisions in coming weeks

5. Slapstick comedian Kim Jong-Un is ready to talk to the US in first bilateral talks between the two nations

6. GOP devises strategy to get gays out of the military via Christian bullying

And as always, check our Twitter @braintrustlive and Facebook pages throughout the week for links, musings and more!

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Welcome NSA listeners!  If we’d have known you were coming, we would have baked a cake.

2. SCOTUS has the most confusing week ever care of Antonin Scalia

3. Susan Rice is now more powerful than the Senators that tried to derail her

4. Marco Rubio proves to be a fairweather fan of his own immigration bill

5. Lautenberg’s absence spurs Chris Christie to do everything wrong her can think of in the runup to his own reelection campaign.

6. It’s our favorite time of year!  The Bilderberg convention, the Vegas week of corporate conspiracy creation, kicks off this week.

And as always, check our Twitter @braintrustlive and Facebook pages throughout the week for links, musings and more!

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In Which We Discuss:

1.  Friend of the podcast Kim Eaton swings by to chat about the greatest story in history.

2.  Turns out if you actually TRY to implement Obamacare, it really works!

3.  In other healthcare news, colonoscopies are just too darn expensive

4.  John McCain’s excessive war experience doesn’t translate to knowing what the hell is going on in Syria.

5.  More 2016 contenders step into the ring.

6.  Plus the end of the Rockefeller Republicans, the crazy olympics to replace Michele Bachmann get underway, plus a big Ann Romney missed opportunity.

And as always, check our Twitter @braintrustlive and Facebook pages throughout the week for links, musings and more!

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In Which We Discuss (Live from Arizona!):

1. Oklahoma tornadoes give Sen. Tom Coburn a chance to deny disaster relief funding to even his own constituents

2. Continuing DOJ wire-tapping news confirms we are excellent scandal pickers

3. Obama fed up with his own counterterrorism policies, outlines his plans to continue all of them

4. Boy Scouts finally half heartedly accept gay youth, still holding strong to their homophobia towards adults

5. Anthony Weiner accepts Brain Trust Live's nomination for the New York Mayor’s race

6. Plus a pair of Arizona stories with our very special panel!

And as always, check our Twitter @braintrustlive and Facebook pages throughout the week for links, musings and more!

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Presidential approval rating numbers finally illustrate how little people care about Benghazi and the other fake White House scandals

2. Harry Reid is still not done making empty threats about filibuster reform

3. After realizing what the GOP actually stands for, a Florida Latino outreach director becomes a Democrat

4. Anthony Weiner basically announces  his mayoral candidacy by sitting in his favorite stoop and trying to look wholesome

5. Ann Coulter  is furious that Star Trek doesn’t offer an accurate view of *her* present day America

And as always, check our Twitter @braintrustlive and Facebook pages throughout the week for links, musings and more!

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Benghazi hearings reveal that the only new info about Benghazi is that it's entirely about Hillary Clinton

2. IRS potentially being run by entry-level 20-something analysts

3. The Heritage Foundation outs itself as being exactly as racist as we all suspected

4. South Carolina provides convincing scientific proof that Anthony Weiner can be mayor of New York, sex scandals be damned!

5. The entire NRA platform is still proving troublesome for NRA and supporters

6. Global warming update: we're more likely to die than ever. Literally each second that passes is a second in which we are closer to our deaths.

7. BTL exclusive: Christ Christie unofficially declares his 2016 candidacy

And as always, check our Twitter @braintrustlive and Facebook pages throughout the week for links, musings and more!

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Barbara Bush finally says what’s been on America’s mind for a long time:  “We’ve had enough Bush’s”

2. More arrests in the Boston Bombing plot lead republicans to remember why they hate all immigrants

3. Being a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay is the best diet plan EVER

4. Even Rockefeller Republicans know that gays are good for business.  Will the NBA realize the same?

5. In an effort to shore up the two-dimensional vote, Mark Sanford vigorously debates a cardboard cut-out of Nancy Pelosi

6. Will Ted Cruz be the first Canadian President of America?  Not if it requires reading the Constitution.

7. Do you have one too many children?  Is your gun arsenal missing a gun small enough for a five year-old to handle?  Solve both problems at once with the Cricket!

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In Which We Discuss:

1. A Brain Trust Live exclusive on the Boston bombings.  Just kidding!  Only our unnecessary two cents...

2. In a move that surprised no one, our one shot at ineffective gun control was shot down by an even more ineffective Senate

3. News flash to Texans...don’t move next to fertilizer plants

4. Mark Sanford, searching for Super Bowl with his cell phone flashlight, finds electoral defeat instead

5. Ricin mail suspect soon to be doing the literal "Jailhouse Rock"

6. GOP to Rubio: Just kidding, we’re still racist!

7. And, as if this week wasn’t bad enough, there’s more disasters...a sinkhole!

And as always, check our Twitter @braintrustlive and Facebook pages throughout the week for links, musings and more!

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1. The witch is dead (ding dong!), which leads us to our most insensitive Rest In Peace yet!

2. The bipartisan gun control bill clears first hurdle, might trip on the second and wouldn’t win a race in effectiveness anyway

3. Watergate, the Kentucky edition

4. Republicans plan to save business by continuing to let women go penniless

5. Elizabeth Warren’s brilliance still doesn’t annoy us like such  perfection usually would

6. Plus, douchebags, carpetbagging, baggy pants, and bad choices you can make on Twitter

And as always, check our Twitter @braintrustlive and Facebook pages throughout the week for links, musings and more!

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In Which We Discuss:

1.  Economic recovery not looking good for anybody except asteroid lassoers

2.  Hillary 2016 practice round commences in McAuliffe's Virginia Gubernatorial race

3.  Fearful GOP officials warn that gay marriage might be too good to pass up even for straight people

4.  Our special guest (!) discusses some unusual gun control proposals

5.  Is your life free of miracles?  Find out why!

6.  Plus, Ted Cruz on Obamacare, Lindsey Graham on immigration, and why Rick Perry thinks Austin would make a great location for bombing or your next corporate retreat

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