Set aside for the moment the hilarity that Paul Ryan now wants to make entitlement reform the objective of the shutdown/default brinkmanship. Check out how conservatives are reacting to his failure to mention Obamacare in the same Wall Street Journal op-ed.
Man on San Francisco commuter train repeatedly brandishes gun, only to have no one notice because they were all too absorbed in their iPhones. People only noticed when he finally randomly shot and killed a college student on the train.
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.