Michele Bachmann refuses to answer reporters’ questions about her husband’s “gay cure” therapy and declares him and their business off limits to press.

Susan Crabtree reports that Speaker Boehner was asked if passage of his bill would help prevent the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.

His response? “That is beyond my control”

No, not really. Not at all. That’s just unbelievable.

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Harry Reid says the Senate will take up the Boehner plan tonight, soon after it presumably passes the House, and kill it immediately.