Senate Dems tell Super Committee they must commit to doing nothing that would cost jobs.

In fact, they want them to allow the CBO to score their proposals for employment impact. And since pretty much all the cuts envisioned have negative effects on jobs, that could have some pretty serious implications. See the letter to the Super Committee here.

“Georgia Magistrate Judge Anthony Peters was thrown off the bench after a pattern of bizarre behavior that included pot-smoking, kicking in doors, and pulling a gun out in the courthouse and asking a fellow judge: ‘I am not scared. Are you all scared?'” Read the rest here.

Having failed to push through a bill that would force partisan budget cuts in exchange for disaster relief, the Speaker now faces a range of bad options if he hopes to avoid a government shutdown, which he does.