Boehner’s bastardized debt ceiling bill passes 218-210. Twenty-two Republicans voted against it.

Voting on Speaker Boehner’s revised-but-still-DOA debt plan just began. Watch live.

Obama hits his lowest approval rating ever in the Gallup poll: 40%.

I’m not sure how else to describe what House Republicans have been doing for the last three days.

Set aside the acting-out, the ideological myopia, and the general chaos. Those speak for themselves. Any objective analysis of the latest Boehner proposal comes down to one simple question: If passed as is, would it preserve the AAA credit rating of the United States? The answer is quite clearly a resounding “No.” Read More

Democrats eye which Republican senators could support the Reid plan.