The US Capitol is currently on lockdown after reports of a shooting.
TPM has two reporters in the lockdown zone. We’ve communicated with both of them. And they are both fine.
House GOP campaign chair apparently told high dollar funders last month that they were going shutdown to placate the Tea Party.
GOP Rep. bawls out Park Ranger, forces her to apologize for shutdown. Watch.
Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul have a hot mic moment.
Here’s Chuck Todd calling out Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) — and by extension Republicans in general — on the big canard about Congress getting a special “exemption” from Obamacare. Watch.
Angry GOP senators reportedly confronted Ted Cruz in a closed-door meeting yesterday.
Chuck Todd dropping some serious Obamacare debunkage on Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) right now on MSNBC. More soon …
Some interesting perspectives on the government shutdown from DC-based reporters for foreign news outlets.
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.