It’s unclear at this point whether there will be a short-term budget deal, or a government “shutdown.” Despite the drama, a shutdown is not really a shut down. Essential services continue.
It’s more of a scale-back, and the government has a lot of discretion as to what gets scaled back. In a...
Congress is under another tight funding deadline. Currently, the federal government is only funded until December 11. A spending bill must be passed by Thursday to avoid a government shutdown.
Thursday, John Boehner held a vote that passed legislation rebuking President Obama’s executive overreach on immigration. H.R. 5759 would’ve refused President Obama...
Ted Cruz is Honey Badger. Honey Badger don't give a shit: http://t.co/Z3L3Xh2xjK
— The Petulant Klown (@realmyiq2xu) December 29, 2013
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I’m on a break from a conference I’m at all week, so I’m following the news on Twitter.
Looks like there is a “done deal” which achieves little for the American people or the future of the nation. The monstrosity known as Obamacare remains in place and the national debt keeps growing...
Another conversation I had with myself on Twitter.
Last time it was about The Republican Brand. This time it’s about the lunacy of Republicans — stoked by the media — panicking over polling last week showing Republicans dropping like a stone into a mountain crevice.
Today Pew released its polling, and it found essentially...
Yesterday.
I’m on vacation at the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Thought you’d like this: the Park Service has closed the Wright Brothers Memorial. I took photos from my iPhone this morning.
The cars parked out in front are not Park Service cars; they are people who hopped the barrier. The place looks deserted....
Dewey.
He returned to Detroit last winter.
and he is updating his Win The Future Theater for the shutdown scale-back with Episode 8: Shelter in Place:
Cody and Skylar shelter in place in their Seattle condo on Government Shutdown Day 12.
They are out of food and Trojans.
(Live Twitter embed at bottom of post)
AP via WaPo reports:
A crowd of people has converged on the World War II Memorial on the National Mall, pushing through barriers to protest the memorial’s closing under the government shutdown.
WTOP Radio (http://bit.ly/GXQKGV ) reports Republican Sen. Mike Lee...
So where we are right now is that Democrats are feeling overly confident. The smash mouth rhetoric hasn’t stopped, while the punching bag Republicans just take it.
Put aside whether reaching the debt ceiling really would be catastrophic (Obama was hip on hitting it back in the day). Now Harry Reid wants...
Joel Pollak at Breitbart.com writes, Liberal Intolerance: You Believe What?:
I was at a dinner recently where I happened to be seated at a table with new acquaintances of the liberal political persuasion.
We went around...
When it comes to Salon.com, I’ve always wondered if they really believe all their outlandish accusations of Tea Party and Republican racism, or it’s just the niche they’ve carved out and click bait. Look at me, I’m not Slate.com, I’m Salon.com.
Whether it’s David Sirota’s rants about hoping the Boston Bombers were White Americans,...
Who could have seen this coming?
Senate Republicans undercut the House proposal for a 6 week debt ceiling extension by proposing a longer extension:
Obama sided with the Senate Republicans, rejecting a short term extension. Via Keith Koffler, Obama Reverses, Opposes Short-Term Debt Ceiling Hike:
Perhaps sensing Republican weakness, President Obama reversed himself...
I think ABC has been reading Think Progress and Media Matters too much, because as with most of the mainstream media, ABC can’t figure out why the Tea Party is not toeing the Wall Street and big business line on Obamacare and the debt ceiling.
Wall Street Can’t Influence Tea Party to...
This is a pretty good example of how the federal government went out of its way to make life difficult by shutting federal lands it never did anything to staff full time in the first place.
North Dakota threatened to sue, and just minutes before the federal complaint was to be filed,...
A conversation I had with myself on Twitter this morning.
Just because I could.
(added) Be sure to read Anne’s study on how embarrassed Republicans were of the Republican Brand long before the current “shutdown,” New study sheds light on why Republicans won’t call themselves Republican.
Also available on Storify.
Interesting to watch geniuses who...
Those are the latest reports as a House Republican conference just broke up, with a group heading to the White House.
Here’s the latest, to be updated throughout the day:
BREAKING. House GOP leaders confirm proposal on temporary extension of debt ceiling.
— Charlie Kaye (@CharlieKayeCBS) October 10, 2013
CNN: "Official: Obama will sign short...
We have noted before the extreme eliminationist rhetoric directed at Republicans and the Tea Party by the most senior Democratic politicians, who portray the House’s exercise of its constitutional power of the purse as terrorism.
That rhetoric has also moved into mainstream liberal publications. What was once expected only of DailyKos or...
