For years I’ve made it a habit not to say people should resign their offices or not resign their offices. Not because it’s a line I don’t want to cross but because really at a basic level I don’t care. It’s just not on my menu of my concerns. But at this point, I think I need to make a confession: I don’t want Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) to resign.
There, I said it. It’s off my chest. Read More
Majority Leader Eric Cantor calls on Dems to strip Rep. Weiner of his committee assignments.
Number of days Rep. Bill Jefferson (D-LA) remained a member of the House of Representatives without caucus leader Nancy Pelosi calling on him to resign after FBI agents raided his home and found $90,000 in cash in his freezer : 1249.
Number of days before calling on him to step down from the House Ways & Means Committee: 294.
You could say that bin Laden deatherism has gone to new depths.
Bill Warren, an experienced diver/deep sea salvage operator and apparently a also a pretty big doofus, announces plans to find bin Laden’s body, photograph it and run his own DNA tests because he doesn’t believe President Obama’s claims that bin Laden is really dead.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the “sovereign citizen” movement … and more.
Consulting giant McKinsey & Company really stepped in it with its report last week finding that President Obama’s health care law would prompt employers to stop providing health insurance to employees in far greater numbers than most other predictions have given.
As Brian Beutler reports, McKinsey’s “report” wasn’t conducted by its own health care experts, wasn’t intended to be peer-reviewed, and has created a rift within the company with some insiders complaining that the methodology used for the report is damaging to McKinsey’s own reputation.
Is it too much to hope for that the GOP presidential candidates will be pressed in tonight’s debate in New Hampshire on their party’s gambit to drive the U.S. into default?
Mark Meckler, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, says Tea Partiers should be targeting Democratic primaries.
As one who’s been arguing that the US is sleep walking off a cliff by flirting with defaulting on the federal debt for the first time in the nation’s history, even I’m a little stunned to see news that some of the biggest US banks are already making plans (sub.req.) to cut their use of US Treasuries in August as a preparation for default.
In light of that I’d really urge you to read the piece we published last week which reports that in addition to potentially catastrophic effects on the economy this Fall, default could end up adding as much as $1 trillion to the US debt over the next decade. A trillion more in debt because of this suicidal move.
Republicans are playing Russian Roulette with the US economy. But with like three or four bullets in the chamber.