Jay Carney in today’s just-concluded White House briefing assiduously tried to avoid opening the door to the minting of a platinum coin to circumvent the looming debt ceiling crisis — but he seemed pretty determined also not to use language that completely ruled it out.
I’ll be taking your questions at a TPMPrime Live Chat at 4 PM eastern this afternoon. Get your questions in now.
Boots on the desk, with two 6 packs of Schlitz and a Colt 45, Biden says President is readying an executive order on guns.
[Last part about executive order is true. Watch.]
On Lew nomination, Senate Republicans are reportedly disturbed by their inability to find anything to be disturbed about.
Whose face should be on the $1 Trillion dollar platinum coin? We’ve now updated our list to honor the NRCC’s derply complaint that the idea is not feasible because a $1 trillion coin would have to weigh too much. Click here and scroll to bottom.
From TPM Reader BC …
Thanks for airing PM’s critique of Bloomberg, which is in many ways spot-on. But to try connect the dots between those sentiments and your sense that city politics has been notably subdued during the mayor’s tenure: I think you’re right about that calm, but I also think it’s due in no small part to Bloomberg’s “dark side.”