Benjamin Cole deserved to be fired. At the beginning of the week, we were talking about the ham-handed attempt by the former communications director to Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) to quash Ben Terris’s great story about Schock’s fabulous “Downton Abbey”-inspired office. By yesterday, Cole was out on his keister after ThinkProgress revealed he used his Facebook page to spew racist comments about African Americans in his neighborhood.