If I had a dime for every anonymous House Republican who said, without doing anything about it, that he really, really wished his party hadn’t shut down the government.
The Post has a profile in motion of freshman House Republican Ted Yoho (FL). The focus is how he’s part of the faction who forced John Boehner to trigger the government shutdown and now wants to move along to default on the national debt. How bad will default be? “I think, personally, it would bring stability to the world markets,” Yoho told the Post.
Absorb that for a moment. He’s on the team that’s driving this bus. What would at best be a huge jolt to the global economy and more likely trigger a global financial crisis and do irreparable harm to the country, he thinks will actually improve things.
Schumer: “Someone goes into your house, takes your wife and children hostage and then, says, let’s negotiate over the price of your house.”
TPM Reader FN asks for a deeper perspective on what’s happening …
As a Historian, any chance you could push for an essay signed by Historians —which puts into perspective and explains the roots and causes of the shutdown?
This does seem to be an important (possible turning point) event for the American experiment.
Clearly, what is going on is an attempt to overturn the 2012 election through undemocratic means.
Speaker says country headed toward credit default if Obama doesn’t cave to threat.
A reader was telling me this morning about how the California GOP, after a pretty much nonstop 20 year decline, had perhaps hit rock bottom and was turning to some of its more pragmatic or centrist leaders to make it relevant in the state again.
And yet …
Popular buttons at @CAGOP convention already take on @hillaryclinton #2016 in a big way… Ouch!! pic.twitter.com/3SdIqZs7GG
— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) October 6, 2013
Very interesting TPMPrime thread asking what the evolution of your news consumption was over the last decade. Neat stuff. What’s your story?
Very odd story breaking down in Houston. Federal law enforcement from the city’s Joint Terrorism Task Force swooped into an upscale Houston neighborhood this afternoon after someone supposedly ordered chemicals of the sort you’d use “to make some sort of gas … like tear gas or nerve gas,” according to law enforcement officials quoted by the Houston Chronicle.
I guess you’ve got to be really, really smart to say things this stupid. Ted Cruz says that his side has already compromised. They wanted to fully repeal Obamacare but they compromised and agreed only to demand that it be defunded.
Well, not precisely. But New Gingrich tells TPM he’s so upset about the shutdown of the “panda cam” at the National Zoo that he’s willing to “pay the cost of the panda cam’s electricity” personally to get the sucker back online.