What do you expect to happen when the debt limit fight hits the deadline in mid-February. We’re discussing that question right now at TPMPrime. Join us.
TPM Reader MA captures a lot of my sense of where New York City is right now …
It’s been 20 years since Giuliani was first elected mayor, and 12 years since Bloomberg bought his first mayoral contest. Twenty years of white Republican mayors – mayors that have been liberal on some social issues but very much aligned with Wall Street and the city’s wealthy – in a bright blue, largely blue-collar and majority non-white city. And they’ve held power in large measure by leveraging white anxieties, from Bay Ridge to Borough Park to the Upper East Side, and the memory of the chaos of the ’70s and ’80s (okay, Bloomberg’s buying off every political professional in the city and flooding the mediaverse with advertising spend probably didn’t hurt him any either).
From The Oregonian, chip on their shoulder gun owners ascend new heights of awesome …
Police say two men openly carried assault rifles in the Portland’s Sellwood area to demonstrate their 2nd amendment rights and “educate the public”.
Jon Stewart on Gun Control Opponents on the Right. As you might expect, he ain’t impressed.
We haven’t written many stories about large-denomination platinum coins here at TPM because, bluntly, this White House has been reluctant to address major domestic policy challenges outside of normal legislative channels and the Mint The Coin bubble has therefore amounted to a whole lot of speculation and advocacy. There’s just not much to write about that other than to acknowledge that it’s out there.
Today’s White House press briefing changes things.
If I had to, I’d still bet against the Obama administration minting a platinum coin to meet payment obligations, even if we breach the debt ceiling. But that’s just a feeble attempt at mind reading. By contrast, the fact that Jay Carney neither foreclosed on the seigniorage option nor questioned its legality today is actually meaningful. Read More
Fox News show, ticked that Gawker published the names of NYC gun owners, airs phone number and email address of Gawker founder Nick Denton: Read More
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) says possible Obama executive order on guns smacks of ‘dictatorship’.
As I suspected (I mean, c’mon, we don’t know who we’re dealing with by now?), the White House ain’t going the Platinum Coin route. Not going to happen. Megan McArdle has to find someone else to get outraged and seriouser personer than you at. Others will be sad. Not happening. Sorry.
Boehner in the Wild, and other National Geographic Photo Contest Winners.
Gun control advocates take on the usual Hitler comparisons: “I don’t think pro-gun activists get it. I think that when they’re throwing around Hitler and Stalin, people are thinking about the children who were massacred in that classroom and wondering, ‘What the hell are you talking about?'”