Saturday Take-Outs

++You can't take it away from him. President Obama is cool in Miles Davis cool. He gave two terrific interviews with Vice and Huffington Post. If we had passed everything he wanted, we would be a far better place. 

++Lindsey Graham now threatens the UN Security Council with cutting off UN funding if they agree to the Iranian nuclear deal.

++Senator Corker says his new Iran sanction bill will pass and be veto-proof.

++Josh Marshall gets a kick out of Steven King accusing American Jews as being democrats first and Jews second in their support for Israel. Steven Israel responds in a twitter war with King saying he is "meshugana."

++AIPAC is having cardiac arrest. It is urging President Obama to be nice to Bibi on his re-election.

++Tehran Tom wants to punish countries who accept Gitmo prisoners. 

++Doug Bandow, a libertarian, writes in Huffington Post that the Beltway pundits are beginning to say the same things about war and forgetting that doing stupid things endlessly only makes things worse.

++Don't look at the GOP budget. It is insane. It has two asterisks ,according to Paul Krugman, which total $2 trillion more of debt. They want to repeal Obamacare, which would cost $220 million in the first year alone and $5 trillion of debt reduction through 2020. And the American people don't get anything. 

++Governor Scott of Florida got rid of climate change literally. He wants anyone using the term in government to get help for mental illness. The words can not be used. Carl Hiassen in the Miami Herald did a funny column on all the real euphemisms used in Florida for environmental degradation. 

++You know Bibi is a Republican because he hasn't organized a government yet. Josh Marshall writes about some who may join him who are now driving hard bargains. The task is to get the extreme right parties away from the government.

++The EU has submitted their report on the West Bank and Jerusalem and notes increased polarization in the last year.

++The ACLU finally won their case for they release of the thousands of photos of prisoner abuse in Iraq. The court has given the Obama Administration two months to file an objection.

++The Loretta Lynch vote is supposed to come up the end of April after the Spring break,making her the longest waiting nominee for Attorney General in our history. That's because she's overqualified.

++Senator McConnell asked all states to ignore the current EPA rules on power plants. His own state of Kentucky refuses.

++NPR ran a show that Hillary Clinton is the most qualified candidate for President of the United States in a long time. The Gallup poll shows that she is held in high-esteem by both men and women. The CNN/ORC poll shows she's about 10 points ahead of any GOP challengers.