If you spend your days following, dissecting, and writing about politics, you get used to bombast and hyperbole. Democrats have turned it into an art form. We've all heard it a thousand times before. Our troops are Nazis, government shutdowns and tax cuts will kill you, the GOP wants to throw grandma off a cliff, and the world will be uninhabitable by 2017.
When you see so much of this stuff, it doesn't take long before you learn to separate genuine bombshells - even if they are extraordinary in their severity - from the standard phony, ginned-up, manufactured outrage.