Craig Smith, CEO of Swiss America, one of those companies that sells gold to morons on conservative media outlets assures Fox News’ Neil Cavuto viewers that debt default should turn out just fine. Watch.
The saddest thing about this mess is that Republican can’t even decide why they shutdown the government and started threatening debt default? Obamacare? Or maybe now it’s the debt? Or a new supercommittee to pursue the ‘grand bargain’. Now they just want to negotiate. Which thing?
I had no idea this was happening. Kansas and Arizona are rolling out a two-class voting system or what they’re calling ‘two-tiering’. Premium allows you to vote in all elections, the freeware version allows you only to vote in federal elections. It’s the latest in the voter suppression game.
ICYMI from last night: Why there’s no escape hatch from a debt default. No 14th Amendment, no platinum coin. None.
The polls are in: The GOP is losing the shutdown fight.
“Well, it’s gonna take us off the edge economically. It’s gonna destroy our economy. And it’s going to push us into a total economic collapse of America. And that’s exactly what I mean by, ‘It’s gonna destroy America.'”
Alas, Paul Broun (R-GA) was talking about Obamacare, not the debt default he’s pushing for. Watch.
Sahil Kapur reports on this morning’s Supreme Court oral arguments in the next big campaign finance case.
In this essay, Bill Moyers calls the current shutdown/debt default ploy what it is. Secession by another means.
My only quibble is that it might be more accurately termed nullification, with real roots back almost two centuries back to John C. Calhoun. The refusal of a minority to abide by the democratic process and instead threaten to destroy the state if they don’t hold a permanent veto on anything the majority wants to do.
We’ve got a number of queries recently about whether we’re still on Google Currents or Flipboard of other similar services. The answer is no.