The next fiscal “crisis”— plus four National Security stories to leave you...
I’m embedding this because Matt Filipowicz and I had a great discussion about the fiscal deal, looking forward to the next crisis opportunity — the debt ceiling “crisis” coming two months from now. You...
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Debt ceiling debate: GOP House holding own budget hostage
Paul Krugman made an excellent point this morning on ABC’s THIS WEEK about the upcoming debt ceiling hostage crisis. Krugman asked why the Republicans were holding the debt ceiling increase hostage...
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Boehner trying to pass bill to pay China, but shaft the troops
Jennifer Bendery at HuffPo reports that GOP House Speaker John Boehner admitted what Democrats have been claiming for a while. Namely, that GOP legislation to address the debt ceiling would force the...
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Poll: People hate Obamacare, but they hate defunding it even more
I do enjoy the polls on Obamacare. I’d written three years ago about how people hated “Obamacare,” but loved its elements: When asked about Obama’s plan (without being given any details about what the...
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Obamacare disaster looms, but for whom? (Hint: the GOP)
As the nation possibly slides into yet another war, the Republicans are keeping their focus on the important stuff: Passing House resolutions to repeal Obamacare (40 to date), and plotting to hold the...
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What if you threw an Obamacare repeal and nobody came?
It’s not easy being a Republican nowadays. A lot of us – me, Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos, Arianna Huffington, among others – left the GOP years ago when political dementia was only starting to set...
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“Cutting off food? Really? Is this what our country has come to?”
I’ve written before about my respect for Politico columnist Roger Simon. He’s an excellent writer, and thinker. And he writes the kind of columns that few do, or can. Think Mike Royko, Or Frank...
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Various stories you might have missed today…
Here are various news stories I never got to write about today, but are worth perusing. John Boehner’s debt ceiling plan is insane. GOP Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli really hates gay...
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The obscene logic of the GOP government shutdown
There is actually a logic to GOP House Speaker John Boehner’s refusal to allow a vote on a clean continuing resolution to fund the federal government and end the shutdown: The alternative is to have a...
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A strange game
In the midst of this government shutdown, imminent debt default, mess, there’s a lesson for Republicans from the 1983 movie “War Games”: The Republican party has been playing with fire since at least...
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GOP offers new poison pill debt-ceiling proposal
They really are a piece of work. The Republicans’ latest hostage deal on the debt ceiling is to offer a six week extension of the debt limit – which would make us default right before Christmas...
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Tentative government shutdown, debt-ceiling deal reached (well, in the Senate)
CNN reports that a tentative deal has been reached between Senate Democratic and Senate Republican leaders over the government shutdown and the impending debt default. Of course, it seems to only be a...
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The GOP’s bogus fixation on the deficit
So, I made the mistake of watching failed Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich and failed Republican CEO Carly Fiorina last night on Crossfire, and I was struck by how both of them were playing this...
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GOP now demanding we sign a DNR for America
Republican House Speaker John Boehner showed up this morning at a press conference to announce the House Republicans’ response to the shutdown / debt ceiling deal brokered last night between Senate...
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Three must-read articles about the shutdown and impending debt default
I’ve got three articles on deck, about the GOP federal government shutdown and imminent debt default, and they’re all important, so figured I’d wrap them into one article. With no further ado (read...
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Fitch credit rating agency says US under review for credit downgrade
Fitch Ratings, one of the big three credit rating agencies, issued a warning today about the “prolonged negotiations over raising the debt ceiling,” which is a precursor to downgrading the US credit...
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Ted Cruz in “Wrecking Ball” (seriously funny, or sad, video)
A spoof on Miley Cyrus’ song “Wrecking Ball,” featuring Tea Party leader and government shutdown/debt default proponent GOP Senator Ted Cruz. Follow @aravosis!function(d,s,id){var...
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GOP: We can easily avoid default Thursday by not paying Social Security checks
I’ve been trying to figure out why so many of the Tea Partyers who now run the Republican party are so convinced that there won’t be dire consequences to not raising the debt ceiling, and it finally...
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Budget deal thwarts Sarah Palin’s secret plan to impeach Obama
Revered Tea Party leader, and failed governor and vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin is sad today. You see, the announcement of a deal to reopen the federal government and avoid an imminent debt...
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This animated gif really does encapsulate the current state of the GOP
A fun little animated gif from Sarah Parnass that really does encapsulate the past few weeks for the Republicans. At a press conference the other day, devoted to yet another of their brilliant new...
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