Pressed on what House Republicans want to get out the national government shutdown, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) said yesterday: “We’re not going to be disrespected. We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”
We’ve seen this movie before. And I don’t mean the 1995/96 shutdown or the impeachment sequel three years later. This is more like that 70s era made for TV movie.
Byron York and I don’t agree on many things politically. But he’s a rock solid reporter and simply essential at times like these when the real story is buried in the most conservative reaches of the House and Senate GOP caucuses. This article from this morning is a good example. It comes as little surprise that John Boehner could break through virtually all the stalemates if he brought, for instance, a clean ‘continuing resolution’ (aka CR) to the House floor and passed it mainly on Democratic votes.
Rand Paul: Obama sent more security to WWII memorial than to Benghazi.
Maybe it would be better if Rand Paul went back to playing footsie with the militia movement.
Cruz, with impeccable post-World War I credentials, tries to spin Obamacare as presidential obsession driving Obama to crackdown on World War II soldiers.
I could be wrong. But I doubt this does more than keep the far-right nutosphere ginned up in its Obamageddon frenzy.
House Republicans consider refocusing on defaulting on US national debt after government shutdown plan falters.
With Tea Party Republicans now unwilling to take Big Business’s lead on core issues, CEOs now reluctantly taking sides with Obama.
Another of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s associates has been arrested on drug offenses. But don’t get too excited. It’s for trafficking marijuana, not crack.
So what the hell?
Rick Perry says his wife misspoke when she pretty clearly said she opposes abortion personally but believes it is a “women’s right.”
As I mentioned earlier, we’re going to be publishing two longform pieces a month going forward. A few we’ll do in-house. But mainly we’ll commission them from freelancers or outside writers. We’ve got a couple more in the pipeline. But we’re also very open to pitches. Just shoot us a line at our main email address up top with the subject line “Longform Pitch.”
Martin Bashir taught me today that you can say “a-hole” on TV.